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Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at
- dannyr 16y agoI like it. Actually, I'm looking for a desk to work at in Buenos Aires for the next 3 weeks. The cafes here are very busy and noisy. I wonder if AirBnB will enter this category since they are a "marketplace for space".
- liamk 16y agoYou beat me to it! I was just going to comment that this was the office version of AirBnB! Hopefully there will be some Toronto additions.
- prawn 16y agoA few weeks ago I was wondering about AirBnB for offices. Wasn't sure if it would be massively successful, but thought it might make a quality side project. Good to see someone's built it and their execution is decent.
- andreshb 16y agoRE: Workspaces in Buenos Aires. Have not used them, but went to an event hosted there, and it was a very nice place. http://areatresworkplace.com/en/services/areadesk/ http://areatresworkplace.com/en/services/areadesk/ Also just found this online: http://coworking.pbworks.com/CoworkingBuenosAires http://coworking.pbworks.com/CoworkingBuenosAires RE: Airbnb, I think they have a lot of work left in just living space to keep them focused for a long time in that.
- rubyrescue 16y agoI have an office with some space but mostly i'd just like to meet other HN'ers while you're here - email me (email is in my profile)
- gridspy 16y agoI've added Gridspy (be fun to have a companion) http://desksnear.me/workplaces/87-gridspy-office http://desksnear.me/workplaces/87-gridspy-office
- ojbyrne 16y agoI don't think the Rails Rumble is actually in Earth, Texas (as the map shows) ;-)
- warren_s 16y agoI blame Google!
- alexeckermann 16y agoI blame it on the boogie.
- bjeanes 16y agoHaha yeah we know. Unfortunately the first bug we've discovered is that editing the address doesn't update the coordinates :) We can't deploy again until voting closes but the fix is being committed already. Luckily it's fairly minor!
- dqh 16y agoGreat! As someone who floats from cafe to bedroom to cafe throughout the week, this is a service i have been looking for. Impressed that you already have a location in Melbourne, Australia in your database, i'll probably go check them out.
- niallsmart 16y agoAlso see loosecubes.com.
- DamonOehlman 16y agoLooks good too, but I think the guys have captured some of the social elements better with @desksnearme - additionally the availability rollover in desks is awesome.
- danac 16y agoNice to see more than one team rolling with the idea. May be best one emerge victorious.
- DamonOehlman 16y agoNice work guys - this is excellent. Site feels awesome, and I will definitely be using it rather than having to put a shoutout on Twitter to find coworking spaces. Great idea. Excellent execution.
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoNice site, and I'd like to add the coworking space I work at, but...I don't own it. It looks like adding it presupposes ownership of the space.
- warren_s 16y agoCurrently, it does, but we are discussing/planning the ability to add locations you don't own in a later release.
- _delirium 16y agoPrice would be useful to have. It looks like the front page asks non-free spaces to mention that clearly in the description, but browsing through, the descriptions are pretty vague on that. Clicking through to the sites, it looks like they range from a person or small company with some spare desks they're willing to let you use free, to dedicated commercial spaces charging $20-30/day to rent. Those are pretty different categories, and I doubt I'd normally be looking for both simultaneously.
- bjeanes 16y agoWe completely agree. We are currently discussing the best way to do this
- newman314 16y agoAlso, please show number of desks available at the "at a glance" page. http://desksnear.me/workplaces http://desksnear.me/workplaces Right side can be reformatted to present more information. So something like "20 @ $30" would be useful.
- keithpitt 16y agoIts on the list of things to do in our next release. We cant push any new features up for 5 days because of the competition were in.
- alexeckermann 16y agoJust a note to anyone visiting the site. We are currently having issues with the mass demand of visits and going over our Google API request limit. Currently in a team Skype call trying to resolve the issue. You can still see all the workplaces available via the "Workplaces" link. Search and creating workplaces are the pages that are affected. Thanks to everyone for checking us out. We will keep @desksnearme updated with the progress. Cheers.
- alexeckermann 16y agoWe are back online and ready to take your search queries. But dont all geocode at once ;)
- bugsy 16y agoOK, this web site has a terrible terrible interface. It uses these nonstandard recessed ovaloids and SOME of them are text fields and others are buttons that take you to other pages. It also tries to establish a HTML5 database without letting me know why.
- bjeanes 16y agowhat buttons/links are you talking about exactly? Nothing sets up an HTML5 database, but it does ask use geolocation if your browser supports it
- bugsy 16y ago"The website “http://desksnear.me” http://desksnear.me” is requesting 1 MB of disk space to store “html5 test db” as a database on your disk." WORKPLACES, SIGN IN and Search By city or address all use novel UI elements of thinly recessed semi-transparent ovaloids, or let's call them extreme rounded rectangles. One is a text field and others are buttons.
- bjeanes 16y agoInteresting. I wonder if that is Modernizer.js doing that without us realising it. What browser/OS are you using? I'll see if I can replicate it. On Chrome/OS X I never get asked.
- bugsy 16y agoSafari/OS X. You have to set "None allowed before asking" in Security if you want to be informed before a db is established. The issue is not that there is a message, it's that it's alarming to have a db set up without an obvious reason for it. I guess I don't really care though. I am right about the user interface problems, but since your folks are slamming the downvote button as fast as they can in response to useful feedback when you've obviously not done user testing, I don't really care any more about giving good usability feedback. "Someone says our interface has problems! Punish him! He must die!" That's a stupid attitude and your company will fail if it retains it.
- taelor_rb 16y agogreat idea for a site. good luck in the rumble!
- taelor_rb 16y agoone thing, it did take me a second to figure out where i could upload a picture. i kept naturally thinking it would be someone in the workplace edit page. Maybe a link from that page would be nice.
- keithpitt 16y agoGood idea! It's on the list.
- riffic 16y agoLittle known secret: libraries and hotel lobbies are great coworking locations for little to no cost.
- doug11235 16y agoThe search function does not work for me. I typed in 'Baltimore' and received zero results. But when I browsed the listings I came upon Beehive Baltimore ( http://desksnear.me/workplaces/32-beehive-baltimore http://desksnear.me/workplaces/32-beehive-baltimore).
- alexeckermann 16y agoHey. We are onto this right now. Just having some issues with using a Google API service and request limits. Team Skype call is underway :)
- kuldeep_kap 16y agoGreat initiative! AirBnB for desks is really needed. Would be great to choose one day where I'd like to work :) I think a lot of works needs to be done on UI. You don't need location from browser, you can just show desks within my city (get that from ip). And no facebook connect? Watch how AirBnB did it. Start slow and from few cities then generalize it to other. Good Luck!
- jasonkester 16y agoPlease please please, let me create an account without having to jump through silly hoops like OpenID or Twitter. Your little website just isn't compelling enough for me to do that. I want to try it though, just to give you some feedback. Please let me create a simple login so that I can do so.
- alexeckermann 16y agoYup we will be expanding the site soon. We built the site in 48 hours for the Rails Rumble competition. We kept it light as we could. After the judging and voting we will be adding in more features and options for login :) Although we think using Twitter or OAuth is the easiest way. 1 Auth and your email address, thats it. Thanks for your feedback.
- jasonkester 16y agoHow could implementing OpenID and OAuth for Twitter be faster to implement than a User table? Certainly you've built web apps before, and therefore have a login workflow that you can rip out and drop into a new site in the first 5 minutes of development? One other thing you're missing is that as a new user of your thing, I don't trust you enough to hand across my twitter username or openID. I'm more than happy to create a throwaway account with you, but you're certainly not going to get any information that links my profile with you with my profiles elsewhere. In short, you're losing a significant fraction of your potential userbase. Right now, since this is the moment when you've got more exposure than you'll ever have again. Spend 20 minutes getting a user/pass thing implemented right now, before the sun comes up in the US, and you'll quadruple your first-day signups.
- alexeckermann 16y agoI agree that might be the case but actually the Twitter and OpenID authentication is much safer. 1) When you authenticate with Twitter or OpenID its all done on Twitter or your OpenID providers site. We cant snoop your credentials at all, you dont enter it on our site. 2) Sure authentication is an easy feature but this way we dont need to ask you for your details again, you let us talk to your service and use your existing information. 3) You can kick us off from your Twitter account from Twitter itself and at any time, see Connections section under settings. Some people might be conscious about us being able to access your Twitter or OpenID information but its mostly available to the world on these services anyway. OAuth (which is the underlying technology behind this authentication) is being used more and more. It's much better and safer for end users, its just that initial hurdle to get mass adoption. Its the end users decision if they trust the site or not. Most people have trusted us today :) We cant make any changes to the app whilst its being judged, not one line of code. I do agree that we should look at implementing a base user signup sans-OAuth provider but we cant do anything until Rails Rumble has been judged and voted. It was a 48 hour coding competition with many other developers around the world, see www.railsrumble.com
- jessriedel 16y agoI was confused by the button "workplaces". Maybe something more explicit like "completely workplace listing" or "all workplaces"?
- bjeanes 16y agogood idea. I've added it to the list
- DannyCooper 16y agoGreat idea and nice execution! I can't wait til there is some desks in my area.
- bryne 16y agoThere's one location listed in Hollywood, CA, with an address listing of 'hollywood': http://desksnear.me/workplaces/7-fortress-of-solitude http://desksnear.me/workplaces/7-fortress-of-solitude The idea is cute, but I assume there's some kind of QC available for verifying links? Otherwise you're literally begging to be overwhelmed by griefers at this stage.
- alexeckermann 16y agoYup, Keith created that. Its a test record. Because we created this for a coding competition we need people to be able to judge the site and make bookings without actually making a real life booking.
- bryne 16y agoOops, I probably could have guessed that from reading your footer :] Makes sense if it's a submission like that. I really like the idea and would 100% use a service like this were it populated well. Best of luck!
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- kaerast 16y agoWould it be beyond the scope of this to list temporary coworking spaces? For example there's a couple of places in my area that run an open office either weekly or monthly and it might be good to have a listing of those sorts of spaces. It'd also be good to link in with the coworking visa that a number of coworking spaces are members of. And in fact it'd be good to work more closely with coworking spaces in general via the coworking wiki.
- jamesbritt 16y agoIt's almost unusable on my G1, I think because of this: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0;"> I can't zoom out to properly see the page.
- bjeanes 16y agoYeah sorry about that. It's a known bug. We've got it on our list and hopefully within a week or so (once voting closes on railsrumble.com) we will be fixing that up
- alexeckermann 16y agoDude Im sorry about that, my bad. Used the HTML5 Boilerplate and didn't remove it before going live. I feel your pain. Iw anted to do a full mobile skin but time ran out.
- jamesbritt 16y agoNP. It seems something like this would be especially handy on phone if you're out and about and looking for a place to work. Now I just need coworking places in north Scottsdale :).
- Entlin 16y agoThere's already a pretty good directory here: http://wiki.coworking.info/Directory http://wiki.coworking.info/Directory It has none of the comfort features that desknear.me is attempting, though.
- bjeanes 16y agoWe've been getting a lot of really great feedback from this site and twitter and we've been taking it all under consideration. Feel free to check out http://blog.desksnear.me http://blog.desksnear.me for some updates. And guys, if you love the idea and want to see the site around, please vote for us at http://railsrumble.com/teams/the-rad-warlike-annex http://railsrumble.com/teams/the-rad-warlike-annex when public voting opens on Oct 21! The prizes will keep us alive for a long type!
- keithpitt 16y agoLike the application? Head on over to http://railsrumble.com/entries http://railsrumble.com/entries and vote for us!