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Nerd Fort
- younata 16y agoI need more information on the zombie apocalypse survivability. Until I know that it's safer than my bomb shelter, I am not leaving.
- endian 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley#Economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley#Economy
- aeden 16y agoAny photos?
- travisjeffery 16y agoYou need to link to some photos.
- pktm 16y agoI'm not looking to appear picky, but please break out the contact info & the address. Right now, prospects are required to thoroughly read the text, even if they're sold and want to sign up right away. HTH
- pestaa 16y agoI didn't read through. I live in Europe. I gave up after 2 sentences. Want to know what's in Europe? Plains and traditions. Damn...
- cpeterso 16y ago"Plains and traditions"? (I'm a USian.)
- pestaa 16y agoPlains with trees and rivers. Traditions with music played with 1000-year-old instruments and funny masks. That's what we have. Netflix? Hulu? Tons of other interesting startups like this place? I'd pay them twice if I could get them here. Even BBC is not broadcasted in my country, you see. (Ok, I'm not starving at least.)
- aliukani 16y agoIf prospects are already sold on it, would they really mind reading through the text (which is nicely styled and not that much of a read)? Usually I would agree with you on keeping the contact info and address separate somewhere up at the top, but in this case I think this approach works. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- apinstein 16y agoNice branding and story, I like it. I think from a lot of co-working sites it's not clear what the vibe will be. Good luck!
- tptacek 16y agoPrice is about 20% higher than the per-person cost of our first office in Chicago's Monadnock building, but our office didn't have the amenities. Is this roughly what co-working spaces cost nationwide?
- icey 16y agoThe few coworking spaces I know about in downtown Phoenix cost more than this. ($300 - $350 per month)
- tptacek 16y agoAt $300 you're better off finding 1-2 other people and renting a small office together. Leasing an office is really not a big deal.
- jarin 16y agoI disagree, the networking benefits you get from a good coworking space more than make up for the cost.
- tptacek 16y agoThis sounds suspiciously like the kind of thing people are inclined to tell themselves because hanging out with the geek crowd at a coworking space sounds more fun and more ego-gratifying than getting some bleak office somewhere. Starting a company gets bleak. Deal with it. It only gets bleaker if you don't. If I wanted social contact, I'd (a) start or attend meetups, and (b) work out of a coffee shop or the library. I wouldn't pay a $100-$150/mo(!) premium for it. $200/mo sounds like a decent price for this, though, especially if I wasn't super-committed to my company.
- poet 16y agoPlus, an office in Monadnock is hardly bleak. I was really surprised at how reasonable their rates for starting offices are.
- mk 16y agoThis is pretty cool as there isn't much like this in the SFV. It would be nice if there were some photos so we could see what it looks like. I've been to co-loft in Santa Monica a couple times and am hoping this is similar. It would be nice if they hosted some meet-ups like co-loft does as it would be a much closer place to nerd out for people that live closer to SFV.
- phatbyte 16y agoPhotos please...
- Legion 16y agoI'm moving from California (where I work mostly in-office) to Austin (where I will continue to work the same job, but 100% remote), and I have been looking for things like this in the Austin area.
- dustyreagan 16y agohttp://Conjunctured.com http://Conjunctured.com. I'm a co-founder. 1st day is free! :)
- edash 16y agoConjunctured already filled up their main space and since expanded to another location. The people I know there love it and many would give up their apartment before they gave up their co-working space. This should definitely be your first stop.
- ahlatimer 16y agoThere's cospace: http://cospaceatx.com/ http://cospaceatx.com/ A buddy/former co-worker of mine works out of there, and he seems to really enjoy it.
- risico 16y agoI wish there were more options like this, and not just in US. Even if you are a freelance or a one man startup, working alone isn't always as good as it sounds.
- nhangen 16y agoTwo words: Awesome design.
- techiferous 16y agoAgreed. To whomever drew the nerds in the cardboard boxes: I love that illustration. Nice work.
- billturner 16y agoThe artist goes by the name Goopymart: http://goopymart.com/ http://goopymart.com/
- skullsplitter 16y agoIm looking for Nerd Fort Oakland
- jvandonsel 16y agoLove the name and logo.
- JonnieCache 16y agoThere's something like this in Brighton on the south coast of the UK called The Skiff. Membership is £165/$264 a month. However this is the top rate, you can pay £25 a month for 'mates' membership, which means you aren't guaranteed a desk, but you can go there and find a place to sit wherever the hell you want, 2 days a week. It's an odd pricing structure but it must work for them because from what I've heard it's always busy. http://theskiff.org/pricing http://theskiff.org/pricing Never been there myself. We just have our own little office. They host some sort of hacker drop-in-centre called "Build Brighton" down there at night time apparently, which I've been meaning to check out. Apparently they made a MIDI exercise bike once... http://buildbrighton.com http://buildbrighton.com
- krmmalik 16y agoThis is very much something that i've been looking for, except in the Manchester area. Do you know if there is anything like this up in Mancs? MadLabs (i think they were called) tried something then promptly ended it. I think their value proposition wasnt as well refined as 'the skiff' hence the lack of demand, but it looks like the brighton guys have got their business model worked out very well.
- antihero 16y agoThere's also The Werks, I intend to work there when I move to Brighton :)
- JonnieCache 16y agoOne random memory from Build Brighton that just came back to me; when I was at uni we once went to a demo of live coding music[1] at a club, put on by the aforementioned hackerspace. One of the 'acts' involved someone waving a chair at a laptop while wearing a gimp mask[2]. That person later turned out to be one of my lecturers who had been teaching us to write softsynths. Good times... [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Live_coding https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Live_coding [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
- petercooper 16y agoI'd easily pay that if there were a similar thing nearby (I'm in deepest Lincolnshire). I'd be paying £400-500 per month for a small office around here. Plus VAT. Plus rates..
- jasonkester 16y agoI registered geekbeach.org (no site there) a few years back with the hope of one day doing this same thing in some random tropical setting. I wonder how many people (aside from me of course) would be happy to know about a spot on Nusa Lembongan with guaranteed fast internet, reliable power, a nice slice of white sand and a really nice reef break just outside the lagoon. Would anybody here take the effort to weasel a working holiday to such a place? Any SV startups that would pick up the whole shop and set up on the beach for a month or so? It's been raining here in the North of England for six months straight. If I get enough love for the idea here, I might just have to book a flight and start scouting locations.
- eneveu 16y agoWow, this is an awesome idea! While I wonder about the price (could bootstrapped startups afford it, especially counting the air fares?), I can see this being very successful.
- jasonkester 16y agoI actually took a team to an off-season ski chalet in Chamonix one summer, and it was surprisingly affordable. Airfare included, it came out to less than we'd pay for cubes in LA. Possibly even less than $200/desk/month, considering the place rented for $800 euro per month and slept 10 comfortably in 6 bedrooms. Details here: http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2006/12/chamonix-branch-office.html http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2006/12/chamonix-branch-of... In SE Asia, I guess you could go 2 ways with pricing. You could look at what the backpackers pay (~$10/night or $200/month for a room), and go with something comparable so that you'd get some overlap (and thus end up with Swedish girls hanging out at the pool). Or you could go for the "Surf Camp" model, where you charge $4k/week to people who have too much money. Personally I'd probably lean towards the first model if it were up to me. Mostly I'd be looking for something that paid for itself, kept me on the beach, and kept a bunch of interesting people around.
- tomjen3 16y agoWhile I would not want to ruin your chance of some sun, how are you getting over the visa issue?
- mrphoebs 16y agoHi guys, Im not associated with nerd fort,so Im not able to provide any photos. Posted the link because I thought it would be useful to other hackers (and liked the design as well).
- whackedspinach 16y agoHow does coworking work? Is that someplace where you could leave your desktop, or do people just bring laptops in?
- robotkad 16y agoThe logo is by one of my fave internet artists - http://goopymart.com/ http://goopymart.com/
- pero 16y agoSimilar concept with 2 locations in Toronto: http://socialinnovation.ca/ http://socialinnovation.ca/
- mkramlich 16y agocool idea. fortunatley in some places you can get an entire private office with door for about double that. more space & quiet, less "co-" so not sure if clearly better or worse
- jollyjerry 16y agoI saw the link to Office and Company in Pasadena. The rates are a bit steep for me at $325/month. I've also been to Blank Spaces in Santa Monica. Are there any folks out near Caltech that be interested in sharing a space or just working together? I usually work at home now and I wouldn't want to do co-working everyday of the week; I find I focus better outside an office environment. But I think spending a day or 2 every week with fellow developers and designers sounds fun and interesting. Ping me if you like the idea of part-time coworking.
- marcc 16y agoBlank Spaces isn't in Santa Monica. It's more like Miracle Mile on Wilshire. Unless there is another location which I'm not familiar with?
- jeromeusa 16y agoActually, BLANKSPACES is opening in Santa Monica in May 2011.
- mahipal 16y agoYes. I'm in Old Town Pasadena but it's hard to justify that rate. There's enough coffeeshops around here, and it's unclear whether the space has a "community" or if it's just freelancers. What's your email? I'm interested in setting up some sort of part-time thing, especially if there's a few others around.
- jollyjerry 16y agojch@whatcodecraves. I misspoke about Blank Space's location. Glad to hear that you guys are opening up in Santa Monica though. Ideally, I'd want to do something within walking or biking distance.
- jeromeusa 16y agoBLANKSPACES has a $99/mo membership for the WorkBar. Would that work? Jerome (founder, architect of BLANKSPACES)
- MonkoftheFunk 16y agoIs this similar? http://www.acceleratorcentre.com/about http://www.acceleratorcentre.com/about Or is this for more mature startups?
- pvilchez 16y agoThe AC is more of an incubator - that is, they provide their residents with a lot of resources (business contacts, advisors, even training), whereas coworking places typically don't have the same connections.
- rfugger 16y agoNice coworking space in Vancouver: http://bootup.ca/garage/ http://bootup.ca/garage/
- code_duck 16y agoThat is so what I'm looking for. I've been thinking of renting out an office just so I have somewhere to go to and work in a daily routine. Working at home all the time is not as grand as some people might think it would be.
- whalesalad 16y agoNice! Something finally exists for those of us in So Cal!
- swaits 16y agoThe Valley is not SoCal. We have several spaces in SD.
- dmazin 16y agoThen where is it?
- swaits 16y agoIt's one area in SoCal, which is enormous. Enough geography for today?
- whalesalad 16y agoUhhh San Fernando Valley is a region of Southern California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley "The Valley" has different meanings to different folks.
- swaits 16y agoUhhh my point was that "The Valley" != "SoCal". Not that it isn't part of SoCal. It's obvious if you read my post properly. Thanks for trying anyway.
- pvilchez 16y agoThere's a couple of coworking places in the Golden Triangle in Ontario that come to mind: - http://treehaus.ca http://treehaus.ca in Kitchener, I think they've been around a while; - http://threefortynine.com http://threefortynine.com, a new space starting up in Guelph
- asmithmd1 16y agoI work out of http://workbarboston.com http://workbarboston.com in downtown Boston right across the street from South Station. $275 per month for a desk, more for a private office, less for 8:30 to 5:30 access only.
- perlpimp 16y agoAnything like that around Moscow?
- RobertKohr 16y agoAny places like this in the portland area?