Imagine a scenario.
You've just arrived to the new city, let's say Buenos Aires. As a traveler, digital nomad, creative person, pick yours, idea of finding coworking space crossed your mind.
If you are in the city for longer, you dream about perfect spot, the one with ergonomic chairs, tranquility, enough social glue to make things interesting, but not enough to disturb your flow.
You open google, ask GPT, maybe even post question on your socials. You get few hits, and then circus starts. Coworking offices, every single one of them has different rules. Some are cool with daily passes, some are not. Some are open only between X and Y hours, some require you to stay there for at least 2 months. Some take card, some only cash. Frustrated you keep taking uber to yet another one, hoping that TODAY will be lucky day, when you find something that ticks all the (not so crazy) boxes.
Is this too much to ask? WeWork tried, but failed miserably. Spaces tried, but, well they keep trying. These big coworking brands, they always suck at the end. It's never comfortable enough, it's never exactly what you want. And what is the deal with decision not to have ergonomic chairs in 90% of coworks? THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING PURPOSE - COMFORTABLE PLACE TO WORK.
With your back on the line, with grit, you don't give up. Scrolling through page 20 of google results, you spot landing page for something called OpenStudio.
You open the link intruiged, and see something that looks like Airbnb for home offices.
Instead of bland coworkings with gray carpets, fake plants, and 20 month contract to get a chair, on OpenStudio, you browse through people's home offices, where they have 1 maybe 2 spare spaces to share with others.
You are instantly hooked, and start browsing home offices like crazy, you see how every one is different. Some people rent out their entire home offices, with equipment they own, like that crazy Mac screen that costs millions, or 3D printer, some offer seat at the table in their music production studio, with extremely comfy leather chairs, that hosted asses of some nifty music producers. Some even offer to help you with some kind of a service if you need.
You are thinking - this is too good to be true! It has to cost so much!
But then you look up, and check prices, and realize it's per hour, or per day, or even flexible. Because it's a home office, very intimate space, the booking process is similar to airbnb, sending a message to host, introducing yourself. There is a rating system, and comments that let people know about your weird singing habit after completing a task, or info about occasional violin practice in the nearby music school.
You decide to test working at Gabrielas space, she's an interior designer, with big lofty home office, that she is not using that often, being at the client sites most of the day, you compose short message, send, pay for 4 hours the next day, and wait for reply, that comes within 10 minutes.
You get to the adress next day, and find Gabriela waiting for you with steaming Yerba Mate, telling you she's excited to share office with someone like you, and how excited she is not to spend another day alone in the office.
Maybe it's not just the working space that you win today, but also a friend? You think.
She leaves you, going for a client meeting, and you find yourself in the best possible office, with beautiful aesthetics, fast internet, and even a dog (that you can pet all you want).
Guess what, at the end of the day, Gabriela comes back, and tells you that she and her friends are doing small BBQ, and you are invited! How often something like this happens in corporate coworkings?
OpenStudio, airbnb for home offices.
