darrenbuckner
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Web artisan and big thinker. Portland, Oregon tech advocate and lover of simplicity. Founder of Workfrom.
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Comment · 4 years ago
That is a bit confusing. Try live rooms here: https://workfrom.com/browse/j2lw5h
Comment · 4 years ago
You can try live rooms here: https://workfrom.com/browse/j2lw5h, and if you want to create your own you can do that after creating a login here: https://workfrom.com/try
Comment · 4 years ago
Greetings, HN. We got the idea for this during our years of building a large virtual community of remote workers and wanting an easier way to create bespoke online places for people to connect and meetup around a specific purpose or theme. Kind of like MySpace meets Zoom.
*We wanted to make it easy to do three things really well:* 1) Create rooms on the fly that others can join with just a browser 2) Heavily customize them to a specific purpose or group 3) Have fun designing and being creative (the Internet needs more creative spaces we can make our own)
Every room has the following (and more): - A front door that can be left open or closed - A dedicated URL that can be shared for easy access - Simple theming and design tools - Customizable background music - Slack notifications to a channel or DM when people show up
I linked this to a "neighborhood" so you can see a collection of rooms in one place. This view helps to inspire what is possible when you create a group of spaces.
Thanks, everyone, and please share your thoughts!
Start creating your own at https://workfrom.com/try
Comment · 11 years ago
Will do!
Comment · 11 years ago
That's awesome. Thanks for the support!
Comment · 11 years ago
I think you nailed it. The community is a huge asset and has proven time and time again to source great spaces. It's not hard to find the location of a coffee shop or coworking space, but it is difficult to know if it's a good place to get work done. Having others who have been there and provided their insight is big.
Comment · 11 years ago
We built Workfrom to help all of us who work outside a traditional office find great places to do our work. Fundamentally, we believe this data does not come from Foursquare or Yelp. It comes from the people who actually work from these places. Like me. Probably like you.
With help from thousands of like-minded people around the world, we now have a great resource to find and share all types of spaces that have been vetted by actual humans!
Search anywhere and everywhere. A brand new face, optimized for mobile. Create a favorites list to keep track of spaces you like and share them easily with others (I use this all the time). Check in at spaces you work from and new filters to customize the way you work (including booze). Easy to find both public and private spaces, because sometimes you need one or the other.
Comment · 11 years ago
Great product and great team. Congrats everyone!
Comment · 12 years ago
Thank you!
Comment · 12 years ago
We've heard this point quite a bit.
Comment · 12 years ago
We've gotten a lot of feedback from business owners that the average patron staying to get some work done is a good steward of their space and spends money often. We hear stories of people staying for hours and hours, not buying anything - but we've found this is just not the norm. With that said, we do encourage our community to support businesses with their evangelism AND money.
Comment · 12 years ago
We are eager to find a home in Chicago. We need to hunt down some great places there first. We rely heavily on recommendations from the community. Once we have enough places to be useful, we make them visible on the site.