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by tinyplanets 451 days ago
I assume your being facetious?
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No? Small businesses like that are what make cities great.
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?"

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
- 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.
Coffee, reimagined with Ai crypto. Cryoffii.
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.