Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from

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Post by frizkyK » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from
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Post by whitepaint » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:53 PM UTC

That looks very nice! Where did you get info about wifi speeds of cafes'?

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Post by toyg » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC

whitepaint wrote: post #2

That looks very nice! Where did you get info about wifi speeds of cafes'?

I think it's supposed to be reported by users themselves when they are there, considering it prompts you to do that.

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Post by focom » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:55 PM UTC

How did you seed the first cafe? is it all crowd sourced? I only see two cafe in Montreal, QC

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Post by nocubicles » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:55 PM UTC

Cool idea but it shows me Amsterdam cafes but I am located in Tallinn.

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Post by puttycat » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

Great idea! But location-specific search doesn't seem to work: I searched for `Paris', selected `Paris, France' from the list, but nothing happened.

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Post by toyg » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:57 PM UTC

Nice idea. Obviously the issue is bootstrapping the database - for example Manchester, England, has plenty of suitable cafes but none appear.

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Post by alttab » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:57 PM UTC

This would be a cool plugin for Google Maps for essentially any public Wifi, wouldn't want to limit it to cafes.

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Post by leros » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. Unfortunately it's not valuable yet without other people populating it with data. Is there any way you can automatically get a first batch of data into it? Maybe scrape coffee shops from Google Maps and add them as not verified or something like that.

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Post by toyg » Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

puttycat wrote: post #6

Great idea! But location-specific search doesn't seem to work: I searched for `Paris', selected `Paris, France' from the list, but nothing happened.

It's very slow. You should see a very thin progress bar at the top of the page.