Sick of being cooped up in the home office (or bedroom as the case may be?) DesksNear.Me is a new service that helps you find the nearest co-working locations to your home.
Co-working locations are offices specifically set up so that freelancers can work in an office-like space around other likeminded people. While many freelancers get out of their day jobs so they can work from home, just as many of us aren’t capable of getting any work done unless we’re out of the house. Those Seinfeld re-runs can be awfully tempting.
DesksNear.Me will try to discern your location and help you quickly find a location, or you can use the search function if your location can’t be determined, or you’re planning a workspace for a working holiday. Once you select a place from a map, you’ll see a page with availability and other relevant information. For instance, here’s the page for the OpenHub, a place a much younger Envato called its office for some time.
If you run a co-working space, you can add it to the DesksNear.Me directory for free–just fill out a few questions about your location, number of desks, booking preferences and provide a general description. For now it’s free to list all types of co-working space but in the future those who charge for a desk may need to pay a listing fee.
DesksNear.Me was developed for the Rails Rumble and came in at 6th place. Congratulations to developers Keith, Warren, Bodaniel and Alex! Some of you may know Alex as a marketplace user and the developer of the Sales Summit iPhone app for tracking your marketplace sales.
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