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1. This is actually a really cool idea for a website. Is this powered by NotebookLM or some such? 2. Coffee shops are probably my favorite Third Place in gener
by hiAndrewQuinn 1y ago
1. This is actually a really cool idea for a website. Is this powered by NotebookLM or some such?
2. Coffee shops are probably my favorite Third Place in general. Here in northern Europe, I've heard of some attempts at Costco-like coffee shops where you pay a yearly membership fee, somewhere between $50-100, for the ability to purchase coffee from there, but the coffee itself is quite cheap. You can usually bring some number of friends or colleagues as well. I'd really like to see this model take off, if they can solve some of the adversarial concerns with it (e.g. it probably shouldn't become a replacement for a full time office, but regular 2-3 hour work sessions seem ideal).
- WasimBhai 1y agoThank you. Previously it was NotebookLM but now I am doing the entire thing, music choice, dialogues editing.
- postexitus 1y agoWhat do you use to sound the back and forth dialogue?
- hiAndrewQuinn 1y agoOh, that's interesting. Did you find NotebookLM's dialogue wasn't getting you the tone you were after?
- WasimBhai 1y agoYes. And there is no music to make you feel the place.
- moritonal 1y agoPolitely, on point 1 I disagree entirely. At a glance I thought it was a parking domain and closed it because I figured their site had crashed. Likely because the "Listen Now" looks exactly like a Google Advert and the jump in gradient for the other element.
- WasimBhai 1y agoI definitely agree but as a poor graduate student, this was the cheapest domain I could find.
- 0xWTF 1y agoJust clarifying for thread (pretty sure OP understands) it's not the domain name that's sketchy, it's the page style.
- moritonal 1y agoHey, yeah, the site name is great, I'll never judge that. And even as design goes it's not "bad", it's just not as great as the parent comment originally implied. I originally mistook the site as an ad-website because of how it's designed, which lead to me leaving. The neat part, is that's pretty easy for you to fix, so best of luck.
- thucydides 1y agoYes, I had the same experience. OP should refresh the design
- WasimBhai 1y agoThank you. I deeply value the feedback.
- hiAndrewQuinn 1y agoThat sounds more like a design issue than an issue with the fundamental idea behind the website. 3 to 4 minute audio clips breezing over interesting new papers still seems near.
- Noumenon72 1y agoThe link points to the original paper now (https://www.nber.org/papers/w32604 https://www.nber.org/papers/w32604) so this discussion isn't applicable going forward.
- dmbche 1y agoYou can look for 'anti-cafes", where crackers and coffee is free but you pay for the time you're there, it was somewhat popular a few years back
- frollogaston 1y agoI love coffee shops but don't like coffee very much, and they usually don't prioritize tea. Wish tea were more popular.
- collingreen 1y agoI love #2 and would like to see it become popular near me.