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If I lived in an apartment building and for whatever reason couldn't take a videoconference in my home, I'd be interested in borrowing a neighbor's clean and qu

by sowbug 7y ago

If I lived in an apartment building and for whatever reason couldn't take a videoconference in my home, I'd be interested in borrowing a neighbor's clean and quiet living room for the duration of the meeting. A micro-Airbnb or a nano-WeWork. With proper precautions, this could probably be done without risking infection.

onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago
Isn't this Peer Space?
- gedy 7y ago
  They just laid off most of workforce
- sowbug 7y ago
  I'm not familiar with that one, but I just heard on the radio about something called Covid Care, which is more what I had in mind. Of course you wouldn't want to encourage people to be walking around knocking on doors asking for random things right now. Online makes more sense. So that might be an opportunity for an online but only super-local forum for things like help taking a meeting because your kids are bouncing off the walls. Maybe that's Nextdoor or Craigslist. But those aren't sufficiently local to reach only the 100 or so people who live in your apartment building. Judging from the downvotes, this isn't a need that resonates with many people. But it does seem that this new situation would be a little more tolerable if people actually could communicate with the person who lives down the hall. Yet right now it's not safe to introduce yourself (at least I wouldn't open the door if someone knocked; I'd just talk through the window, which wouldn't make those introductions very comfortable). Edit: looked up Peerspace. That's more formal. This is more like "anyone mind if I do a videoconference in your living room for 30 minutes? My kids are doing their schoolwork and we don't have a place to move them" and broadcasting it to just the couple hundred people who live in your building. Same idea but residential for WFH rather than B2B.
paxys 7y ago
Most people don't need a multi-billion dollar app for that..they just knock on their neighbor's door.
- sowbug 7y ago
  That's quite an expensive strawman you've demolished over there.

by sowbug 7y ago

onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago

Isn't this Peer Space?

gedy 7y ago
They just laid off most of workforce
sowbug 7y ago
I'm not familiar with that one, but I just heard on the radio about something called Covid Care, which is more what I had in mind. Of course you wouldn't want to encourage people to be walking around knocking on doors asking for random things right now. Online makes more sense. So that might be an opportunity for an online but only super-local forum for things like help taking a meeting because your kids are bouncing off the walls. Maybe that's Nextdoor or Craigslist. But those aren't sufficiently local to reach only the 100 or so people who live in your apartment building. Judging from the downvotes, this isn't a need that resonates with many people. But it does seem that this new situation would be a little more tolerable if people actually could communicate with the person who lives down the hall. Yet right now it's not safe to introduce yourself (at least I wouldn't open the door if someone knocked; I'd just talk through the window, which wouldn't make those introductions very comfortable). Edit: looked up Peerspace. That's more formal. This is more like "anyone mind if I do a videoconference in your living room for 30 minutes? My kids are doing their schoolwork and we don't have a place to move them" and broadcasting it to just the couple hundred people who live in your building. Same idea but residential for WFH rather than B2B.

paxys 7y ago

Most people don't need a multi-billion dollar app for that..they just knock on their neighbor's door.

sowbug 7y ago
That's quite an expensive strawman you've demolished over there.