hey folks! so, wanted to see if ya'll would find this type of service useful for reserving any particular co-working spaces, full list of amenities or figuring out where the heck to do your work? (still building on it and improving as I go, be as brutally honest as you can )
So currently the service is only an MVP. Right now you're only able to see all the nearby spaces available, though I'm extremely interested to hear what you'd like to see from a tool such as this! Will be more than happy to integrate suggestions.
There might be multiple business models. (I'm mildly interested in finding a co-working space, but less so in pinning down what amenities they have, and I'm not sure I'd pay for it.)
Your site got me thinking about pinballmap.com, though, which I think scaled by letting users suggest (and add?) locations themselves. It's a web site with a companion app. Not sure if it makes its money on app sales or donations.
Though I've always said the best way to make money with an app is to add the app to your portfolio, then land a high-paying programming job...
HUge thank you for the insights, greatly appreciated. On the topic of features, what would you then say would be valuable services/conveniences you wouldn't mind paying $4.99 monthly for?
Also haven't seen pinballmap before, looks interesting.
A feature I'd pay for? Discounts at co-working facilities. (They're expensive, and always hard to justify.) Maybe the co-working sites would give you those special discounts in exchange for more visibility in your app.
Radical idea: I read about an app that let people rent out their backyard swimming pools by the hour. Is there a market for letting people co-work on your back porch or with you in your living room, etc? (Kind of like an AirBNB for co-working. People would make profiles of the space they're offering, and set their price...)
Or you could try auctioning them off -- you'd probably have to do that at the start of the business day, and it would obviously work better in densely-populated areas.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but the only thing I'm really interested in is whether I can or can't co-work somewhere. To get me excited about amenities, it has to be really luxurious. (I heard about hotels that were letting people co-work in their lobbies or unused suites. That kind of thing...) If you want people to subscribe to a service, it'd have to be finding high-end "luxury" co-working spaces, maybe ones not generally available to others? [Maybe you'd need to find unique co-working locations -- a historic church, a university common room -- that aren't more widely known?]
I love these! yeah, my main thing right now is piecing it all together into a valuable service I can offer, and more importantly, understanding where people's heads are at and what they wish would exist within the field. very grateful for the ideas.
One more idea. You know how big tech companies will host Meetups, just for the exposure and in hopes it'll help build up goodwill in the community and aid their recruiting later?
Maybe you could get local tech companies to set aside a common area for co-workers -- in exchange for the same benefits? (Building up goodwill/aiding with recruiting...)
> very grateful for the ideas.
If you're ever about to IPO for a billion dollars... track me down! :)
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[ 0.95 ms ] story [ 56.6 ms ] threadYour site got me thinking about pinballmap.com, though, which I think scaled by letting users suggest (and add?) locations themselves. It's a web site with a companion app. Not sure if it makes its money on app sales or donations.
Though I've always said the best way to make money with an app is to add the app to your portfolio, then land a high-paying programming job...
Also haven't seen pinballmap before, looks interesting.
Radical idea: I read about an app that let people rent out their backyard swimming pools by the hour. Is there a market for letting people co-work on your back porch or with you in your living room, etc? (Kind of like an AirBNB for co-working. People would make profiles of the space they're offering, and set their price...)
Or you could try auctioning them off -- you'd probably have to do that at the start of the business day, and it would obviously work better in densely-populated areas.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but the only thing I'm really interested in is whether I can or can't co-work somewhere. To get me excited about amenities, it has to be really luxurious. (I heard about hotels that were letting people co-work in their lobbies or unused suites. That kind of thing...) If you want people to subscribe to a service, it'd have to be finding high-end "luxury" co-working spaces, maybe ones not generally available to others? [Maybe you'd need to find unique co-working locations -- a historic church, a university common room -- that aren't more widely known?]
Maybe you could get local tech companies to set aside a common area for co-workers -- in exchange for the same benefits? (Building up goodwill/aiding with recruiting...)
> very grateful for the ideas.
If you're ever about to IPO for a billion dollars... track me down! :)