Cool idea but it shows me Amsterdam cafes but I am located in Tallinn.
I think it defaults to Amsterdam for anyone it cannot locate (because "A" maybe...?).
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#12Bug report: I can find cafés in my city when I search, but "Places near you" still give me places that are are 800km away. Even when I sort by distance.
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#13Cool idea but it shows me Amsterdam cafes but I am located in Tallinn.
Because no-one has added a closer cafe yet.
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#14This is cool. Reminds me.. I have always liked the idea of opening a cafe (who hasn't !?) but I'd struggle with the modern behaviour of peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug + wifi in exchange for ~£$4. Hugely uneconomical for independents. Good-faith customers aware of the economic burden of their behaviour are a VERY rare breed.. So I quite like (/ethically hate) the idea of creating scarcities in order to influence behaviour away from this norm. E.g. limited internet consumption, no wall sockets, pay-per-minute, etc. Thoughts?
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#15I've used a similar product at https://workfrom.co . Albeit, it appears they partially pivoted during the pandemic towards virtual co-working.
They have an app that has wifi speed reports which was my primary reason to install it (it also lists a qualitative score for accessing a power socket). There's around 20,000 locations in their database IIRC. The old web interface still exists eg: https://workfrom.co/search?g=seattle
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#16This is cool. Reminds me.. I have always liked the idea of opening a cafe (who hasn't !?) but I'd struggle with the modern behaviour of peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug + wifi in exchange for ~£$4. Hugely uneconomical for independents. Good-faith customers aware of the economic burden of their behaviour are a VERY rare breed.. So I quite like (/ethically hate) the idea of creating scarcities in order to influ…
Just don't have wifi.
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#17Love the simplistic design - "500 Internal Server Error"
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#18The "near you" list sent me to amsterdam, I'm in bogota, like a continent away, Maybe you should check your geo-ip api/db
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#19500 Internal Server Error
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#20This sounds like a great way to overwhelm a person's local business with people who buy one beverage and then consume a table for the rest of the day. If I were a coffee shop owner I would be wary of this.