Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

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).

Thank you. Previously it was NotebookLM but now I am doing the entire thing, music choice, dialogues editing.

Politely, 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.

Oh, that's interesting. Did you find NotebookLM's dialogue wasn't getting you the tone you were after?

I definitely agree but as a poor graduate student, this was the cheapest domain I could find.

Yes, I had the same experience. OP should refresh the design

Thank you. I deeply value the feedback.

Yes. And there is no music to make you feel the place.

What do you use to sound the back and forth dialogue?

Just clarifying for thread (pretty sure OP understands) it's not the domain name that's sketchy, it's the page style.

That 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.

You 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

Hey, 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.

I love coffee shops but don't like coffee very much, and they usually don't prioritize tea. Wish tea were more popular.

The link points to the original paper now (https://www.nber.org/papers/w32604) so this discussion isn't applicable going forward.