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Now, even better, allow any neighbor to open a legitimate (yet small-scale and cheap) coffee shop or wine bar by-right in the garage space under their SF home.

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Yea, one of the problems of USA zoning laws is that very small scale retail/food service businesses are not allowed in the middle of a block. In other more walkable/urban density places businesses will pop up where you can get a coffee and it's not on a "business street". It's where people actually live and gather.

I assume your being facetious?

I hope this commenter is being facetious.

How do you read that post and have the first thing in your head be, "Hmm? How can I monetize this?"

It's not about monetizing friendship, it's about providing comfortable places where events like this can happen all over the city/country. People want this community but it kinda sucks to do (and mostly won't happen) if you're meeting up monthly on chairs in a city street. If small neighborhood pubs and coffee shops were legal to build...

I have heard about areas in rural Wisconsin where front porches have been converted into very small bars. Low overhead, serving primarily to your neighbors, and no doubt creating community.

If you think “garage coffeeshop” is a fast track to wealth, boy do I have news!

Am I not going to make it in the next YC class with that pitch? Guess it's time to start from square 1

Coffee, reimagined with Ai crypto. Cryoffii.

- Subscription model that gives you guides and connects you to vendors to open a 3k garage coffeeshop under a shared name. You can be your own boss and we collect beautiful / plentiful / gracious MRR.

No? Small businesses like that are what make cities great.

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