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

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This 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…

peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug + wifi in exchange for ~£$4. Hugely uneconomical for independents. It's only uneconomical if enough potential customers leave because they can't sit down or I guess if they use a ton of power. Business Internet is not usage based, right? and you're buying that anyway... One place near me instituted a "co working packages" which you were expected to pay a certain fee and that g…

> Business Internet is not usage based

You'd think that's the case but really, it depends.

It depends on what connection type you have, what country you're in, and how remote you are or aren't. Business grade fibre in a big city? Probably not going to be metered and you'll have bandwidth to spare. ADSL in the middle of nowhere? Almost certainly going to be metered and you'll have very little bandwidth.

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

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This 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…

The more that a coffee shop is customer-hostile, the less I'll visit it, even if I were to get something to go. I don't want to support businesses who don't want to support me.

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

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This 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…

Maybe going for a co-working space is better on your case.

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

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ok but why. Why didn't you just look it up and never use it again, unless you move every 3 months.

For the people who haven't looked it up yet, or for the people who move every three months.

I could just google it rather than use a site that I have no trust in, once every 3 months.

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

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This 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…

> This 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

You'd have done well in Budapest at one time [0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_235-hSeKFI

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

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My library has fiber internet...but it only allows browsing. No ssh, no git, no vpn...

I use a VPN service which has endpoints that accept connections on TCP 80/443, and UDP 53, one of these usually works to bypass these limitations.

which one is that?

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

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It's not exactly the same, but in Japan a few capsule net cafes opened up that sound similar to what you're talking about: https://youtu.be/HkNzjvueJm8

Thanks that's almost what exactly I want. I don't need the computer though so that's a difference. I also want chairs. But that's what I have in mind.

A space where you can work? Potentially with spaces with others. With break out spaces for working with others, with a few perks thrown in? Call it WeWork?

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

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Thumbs up from me, nice work.

My wants:

* Support for e-mail signins, instead of only via SSO

* The "Near me" function appears to only use IP as a source for location awareness(?). This is going to be wildly inaccurate in many countries

* The UI is ... off. I can't put my finger on it, so this isn't helpful, I guess, but if feels like something's missing, which makes me feel lost

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a VPN service which has endpoints that accept connections on TCP 80/443, and UDP 53, one of these usually works to bypass these limitations.

which one is that?

AirVPN, https://airvpn.org/
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