Darren Buckner

Virtual Cafes by Workfrom - Create the perfect vibes for your online meetups

Mix custom background imagery with low-key video chat and your favorite music to create gorgeous online meetup spaces. Tailor everything to match your community, brand, and purpose. No-code design tools. Nothing to download/install. Create. Decorate. Share.

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📢tsellhorn⛵️
OMGZ! Workfrom has been huge for me as a remote worker and leader. Worker: I love having a "place" to express myself and vibe as I work. I love having a "place" that coworkers and I can stay connected while separately executing on our work. Leader: I love having a more casual way to be " in the work room" with teammates. Anytime I've needed a place to work on similar or adjacent projects with reports, I've used workfrom to keep us "shoulder to shoulder" virtually. All of this from a legit awesome crew of folks that aren't building an interruption machine that is going to juice MAUs and the stock price. "A meetup metaverse made by you" just in the browser? Yes please.
Brooke Hurford
@tsell89 The way you explain this is *chefs kiss* 👩🏼‍🍳 💋 So happy we've been able to build a product you love using.
Darren Buckner
@tsell89 thank you!
Jessica Porec
@tsell89 Love this! Thanks, Tyler! :)
Chris Messina
"A meetup metaverse"... how is metaverse defined in this context?
Emilio Lopez
@chrismessina you have the multiple cafes (virtual spaces) to pick from and join and interact with other cafe goers
Darren Buckner
@chrismessina hey there. You can create and group spaces to form a "neighborhood" of persistent virtual places where people can meet and interact. Endless possibilities. Example: https://workfrom.com/browse/demo
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Chris Messina
@darrenbuckner got it, thanks. Why Matthew Ball's book "The Metaverse" is making the rounds, I was curious if your definition differs from his, which it does: "it is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences, and also underpin much of the physical world."
Darren Buckner
@chrismessina yes, and that definition resonates from my previous vantage point. I must say that having witnessed the ingenuity and creation happening on our new platform, I'm convinced we'll see an an "Indie" metaverse of sorts where anyone can set up their own spaces and link them in meaningfully ways with other people's spaces.
Darren Buckner
Hey, everyone! Darren from Workfrom here. We love having freedom and flexibility in how and where we work, and our team has been building work-from-anywhere tools since it was a thing to scour Yelp for places with “good wifi” mentioned in the reviews. We founded our startup, Workfrom, as a bet that anywhere work would take over the world, and that's happening. In 2016, we launched a popular app to help professionals find great places to get their work done in cities everywhere. A year later, we added a professional virtual coworking community so that people always have others to work around. In 2019, we built a trusted app that helped local coworking spaces offer workspace to the growing mobile workforce. Over the past year, we’ve been developing a new online meetup platform to help even more people connect and to further our vision of enabling freedom, flexibility, and community in Anywhere Work. Today we're publicly launching Virtual Cafes 🕺🏽 😀 🎨 Why? We want it to be super-easy for you to create beautiful places people love visiting — and you love hosting. We all know online community-building only grows from here on out, and we need new tools that let us personalize these frequent get-togethers. Every Virtual Cafe you create is: - Fully customizable to match your vision and brand - Optimized for repeat and drop-in meetups - Able to send arrival notifications via Slack and SMS - Equipped with a front door that can be open or closed The easier it is to love the places we meet, the more connected we feel when we go there. You can start creating your meetup metaverse now at: https://www.workfrom.com/virtual... You can use the code FREEMONTH to get a free month of any plan you ultimately choose. We enable thousands of online meetups each month. We ship new updates every week. We can’t wait for you to start creating 🤗 Here's to your success! ***Update*** Visit https://workfrom.com/browse/demo to check out example spaces.
Carlo Thissen
Absolutely love your rebrand and the product updates look so so fresh! Time to refresh our meetup metaverse 😍
Brooke Hurford
@carlo_thissen Thank you Carlo! Your early input helped so much. Appreciate you!
Darren Buckner
@carlo_thissen I appreciate you, Carlo. Thank you.
Jessica Porec
@carlo_thissen Thank you, Carlo!
Jeffrey Tedmori
OMG So excited to see this!!! Transformative, so stoked!
Brooke Hurford
@jeffrey_tedmori1 Thank you Jeffrey! Really appreciate your support 😍
Darren Buckner
@jeffrey_tedmori1 awesome! Thank you.
Darren Murph
Such an awesome perspective on "place." Kudos to the team!
Brooke Hurford
@darrenmurph Thank you for the support Darren! Love being in this remote space with you.
Darren Buckner
@darrenmurph thanks, Darren!
Gonçalo Hall
I'm super excited for the Workfrom Cafes! Being a remote work consultant and a community leader these Cafés help a lot to create different types of events with different goals, it can be a social platform to create meaningful conversations or a deep work session where we use pomodoro to go into deep work together to foster focus and a mission aligment. I am just testing it out for different types of events but I love how flexible the platform is. Definitely the Cafés will help remote companies and communities all around the globe to create meaningful moment together.
Brooke Hurford
@goncalo_hall Thank you Goncalo! Love the way you're experimenting, can't wait to see what you create 🤗
Darren Buckner
Jessica Porec
@goncalo_hall Thanks, Goncalo!
Nicole Healy
Just in the last month, the Virtual Cafes have been instrumental in helping shift a Zoom/meeting heavy workplace culture. The cafes have enabled our team to embrace more of a "drop-in" to get an answer mindset and slowly shift away from the need to schedule a 30 minute meeting for every topic that comes up. Next up, we are looking at using the virtual cafes externally for community building and I can't wait to dig into the branding features more.
Darren Buckner
@nicole_healy thanks, Nicole!
Jessica Porec
@nicole_healy That's so great! Love to hear we've been able to help with that shift from defaulting to synced meetings. Thanks so much for your support!
Zubair Ahmed
This is awesome 🙌🙌
Darren Buckner
@_syed_zubair_ahmed you are awesome. Thank you!
Jessica Porec
@_syed_zubair_ahmed Thank you, Zubair. Appreciate your support!
Pier 🍉
Love Workfrom!! The team is amazing, the spaces look 🌺 beautiful, and allow for super easy coworking sessions and team calls with our own URL :)
Darren Buckner
@pyer I appreciate you, Pier!
Jessica Porec
@pyer Thanks for all your support, Pier!
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