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Comment by chrisweekly | Hacker News Reader

Respectfully, I don't see a viable business here. As a remote worker, I can hardly imagine "signing up" for an app to find coworking space. Your efforts would be better spent on something more compelling. PMF (Product:Market Fit) is hard enough when there's actually a decent addressable market.

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> Respectfully, I don't see a viable business here.

Isn't all of WeWork this business? Granted, I know they've had their share of problems with profitability and bankruptcy, however, I think that stems from issues other than the business not necessarily being viable.

> Isn't all of WeWork this business?

No, it's not even close. WeWork owns real estate.

OP is trying to sell subscriptions to an app that helps users find coworking locations.

Wework’s business was controlling real-estate via leasing. It never had enough money to own meaningful amounts of office space in multiple major markets.

I agree with chrisweekly, it's not even close. WeWork provided value to people by assuming some risk in signing those longer term lease agreements and repackaging it to people looking for shorter term office space or to those who would otherwise not want to enter into a commercial office lease themselves. I don't think OP is really offering any value add over a quick search for "coworking <city>" and I imagine that's why nobody is signing up. Personally, I find that even a free SaaS subscription is a liability these days so the value add needs to be highly compelling.

I was only making a technical point about real-estate.

Critiquing the OP’s project doesn’t interest me intellectually.

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