miguelbemartin

I think that the problem here is that you do not understand that organising a community takes time and effort.

Creating a slack instance is not building a community.

The "fee" is just a simple way to get commitment from the other side. As you can imagine, this is not a business that will allow me to quit my job.

I believe that the desire for human connection is more important than simply having access to information. In this conversation, we are engaging with each other as humans, rather than relying on a virtual assistant to listen and offer a different perspective.

This is why there are tons of communities out there. Having an online community is interesting for people that work remotely and want to find ways of connecting with people with the same interests.

why?

Do you mean organising yourself a community or just reading a book?

Thanks for the feedback, fixed :)

Building communities is not easy. I have already experience organising local meetups and it takes time until people understand the value of being part of it. I do not have rush of growing the number of members, the idea is to start it simple and see how it goes.

That's actually a great suggestion. I will dig deeper to see if there are ways to do that.

That should be something in your end, maybe chrome extension or whatever, my website is a simple NextJS deployed in Vercel.

Thought about this idea, but there is not a simple way to organise this logistic worldwide.

You can try our service for one month and decide if it's right for you. If you're not satisfied, we offer refunds. You can find more information about this in the FAQ section on the payment page. We want everyone in our community to be happy, as this is a side project aimed at creating a fun experience.

Thank you for your valuable feedback. Our community is just starting, and we welcome any suggestions for new ideas or preferred time slots.

We are currently exploring the possibility of scheduling events in the morning or afternoon, as well as finding times that accommodate participants in both NAM and EMEA regions.

May we know your preferred time for the online events?

Yes, we are using Circle as a platform and we are paying 99$ each month. We have only 30 spots available, so it will basically cover the cost of the platform itself (if we get all the spots filled).

If you have organised a community, you know it's not only the cost of the platform, it takes time to coordinate, moderate and basically build a community.

Just curious, what are the problems or work when running your book club that this website is not solving?

Agree, I have been organising local Meetups in the past and I know how much time it takes.

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated. Definitely, the texts in the website have been the hardest part of the launch.

We want to initially limit only to 30 spots to see how we could manage the community and the online events. We will evaluate if it makes sense to open more spots in the future.

The idea is to create "online coffee chats" where everyone is able to participate.

I have used Circle with other communities and I can say that the experience is much better than using slack or discord.

The concept of paying to be part of a community is not new, you can find many communities that charge more than 5€/month.

You can find some examples here: https://community.circle.so/c/showcase/

We are using Circle for organising it and it costs us money, additionally, it will also take time to organise and moderate the community.

I also believe that paying for something brings more commitment, so this is why we have decided to introduce a small fee for joining the community.

Google Reader was killing Google Ads, so they decided to shutdown this service. RSS readers don't show ads in the same way of navigating in their websites.

Not always you have the chance to keep communications on site. I am from Spain and I've moved to Germany a few years ago. I am working in an international company where there are people from everywhere around the world. I love to keep connected with all of them and a remote coffee sometimes is a good idea.

https://remottecoffee.com a tool to make easier how we keep connections online. Several weekends of confinement have helped one friend and me to shape and implement one of those projects we had in our personal backlog.

Because of the distance we are from each other, our friendship has relied heavily on phone calls and video calls. Some time ago, we started calling them, "remote coffees", "- Hey man, when are we having our next remote coffee?"

We met at the University, we spent about two years working for the same company and we have kept in touch during these years thanks to our "remotte coffees" and also due to the many concerns about technology and productivity we have in common. "This conversation should have been recorded!". We are sure this same thought came to you after some either formal or informal conversation you had. The challenge was simply to place a product live with as much free time as this quarantine allows, and here it is. We are not launching a super business, nor did we intend to, we both are fully dedicated to something else. We just wanted to launch this MPV and share it with friends and contacts.

We do have a lot more functionalities and ideas to put on it but, if you want to try it, those ideas will be much better by taking into account your honest feedback.

I am surprised to don't see so much difference between the 13" and 16" prices. Other than that, good movement from Apple, listening to what the people wanted.

It would be interesting to consider 15, 16 as the evolution, the same with 11, 12 and Air 13.

In my opinion, I think the better way to write better is to write a personal journal. Only for you.

Sure! I will do it.

Really interesting tool. Searching for that time ago. Can't wait to try it out.