Kowalla

Kowalla

The world's first fully-online coworking space.

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Kowalla is the world's first fully-online coworking space. Start your project and create live posts to share your progress. Cowork with others, and build a timeline of your project as you build.
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Betkowski
Looks really interesting, might just sign up. There's no information on the page, is this going to be free forever, or are you planning to introduce some kind of paid plan?
Alec Khoury
Maker
@hellobetkowski Thanks! I don't intend to have any paid plan at this time. I have lots of different ideas for monetization, but a big tenet of this site is to promote equity in the tech community. I think a paid plan would actually create barriers for creators starting out, while I would like to instead tear those barriers down.
Matthias Gall
@hellobetkowski @alec_khoury "I think a paid plan would actually create barriers for creators starting out, while I would like to instead tear those barriers down." – upvoted for this statement alone. Kudos!
Alec Khoury
Maker
@hellobetkowski @digitalbreed I really appreciate you calling this out 🤗
Alec Khoury
Maker
🐨Kowalla is the world's first fully-online coworking space. Start your project and create live posts to share your progress. Cowork with others, and build a timeline of your project as you build. 🐨Kowalla focuses on projects🚧, not people🙅‍♂️. Create your project on Kowalla and share your progress through our Live Posting feature, which shows you as active on the site, and allows you to live blog your challenges and achievements as you work! 📖After moving to a big city to join the tech world, I realized how ridiculous it was that I had to move thousands of miles from home to plug into the tech community I wanted to be a part of. My goal is for Kowalla to provide all of the community and benefits of startup hubs like San Francisco, Austin, and New York, but to be available for anyone, from anywhere. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
Alec Khoury
Maker
@owenfar1 Thanks so much! Let me know your thoughts if you get a chance to try it!
Jake Tran
@alec_khoury I like the idea you wrote, probably another social network; but with the last point, you are onto something here. Yet, I fail to see how the product shows what you are trying to prove here.
Alec Khoury
Maker
@jake_tran Hi Jake, I appreciate you taking a look, and I agree with you the product isn't intuitively differentiating itself yet. As an MVP, I wanted a concept of 1) Projects that users can start and post as, and 2) Spaces that users can create for more focused discussion. From there, my only core differentiator is something I wish I'd have emphasized more in my onboarding flow, which is creating a "Live Post" that shows you as live on the site, and allows you to essentially live blog whatever you're working on. I'm working on updates as we speak to keep striving for the idea I outlined, but would love some insight on what your expectations were, so I can keep zoning in on a solution!
Jake Tran
@alec_khoury I'm not quite sure if transferring from real to digital world would make anything communicate to the audiences differently; because what you are doing sound like if PH had a social networking product of its own. But you are onto something about not going to any sort of "Silicon Valley" and instead creating a decentralized technology hub. Then you have something like "Indie Hacker" where makers help and discuss to solve problems. So the Social network seems a little vain.
Oliver Wolf
MonsterWriter
This is a quite nice idea!
Alec Khoury
Maker
@oliver_wolf Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts if you get a chance to try it out!
Oliver Wolf
MonsterWriter
@alec_khoury here some random thoughts after logging in: - The illustrations of the faceless guys on the landing page are good, but I see them on every page posted on PH. I'm starting to close a website immediately when I see those illustrations. I'm just board of them :/ - I like the logo and the general design of the landing page :) - After creating a account I thought its quite simple to indiehackers? Does not mean it is a bad idea. There just might be some competition.
Alec Khoury
Maker
@oliver_wolf Thanks for getting back to me on this. It's really helpful! I agree, I think that is the one downside of such well created illustrations being made free/open source. I'll try to be more creative in v2, but glad you like the rest of the design! I think you're quite right that this current MVP is pretty similar to Indiehackers, but I will be implementing many more differentiating features over time. My one differentiator right now is "Live Posts" which allow people to "cowork live" on the site, but after launching, I definitely wish I had focused all CTA's on getting users to create their project and create a live post. I definitely learned that yesterday! Thanks again for getting back to me. It's hugely helpful, and will keep me working hard to build an awesome product!
Kevin Nuut
Design is looking great. Love that shade of green and purple!
Alec Khoury
Maker
@nuutco I'll keep it up with the bold colors! 👨‍🎨
Lauren Johannes
I think this product has a lot of potential! I love the idea that I can go to one place and not only have a comprehensive feed of all of my work but also pose my progress and questions to specific communities based on what I'm actually working on in a given day (design, network, build). I'll be looking forward to seeing how the communities evolve and what kind of interactions/accountability it brings to the table.
Alec Khoury
Maker
@lauren_johannes Thanks for the great review, Lauren!
Amrith
stoic.
@rrhoover you might like this 👀
Alec Khoury
Maker
@rrhoover @amrith Thanks for the shoutout! 😅
Matthias Gall
It has a very Facebook-ish feel to it. What's different from e.g. a Facebook Group? These timers / live posts seem to have some meaning but I don't quite get it? Is it like a Pomodoro / unit of work / micro sprint during which you can amend the post?
Alec Khoury
Maker
@digitalbreed Appreciate you checking it out! And you pretty much got it! I don't have any pomodoro functionality with it, but it's meant to help convey to others you're working live when it shows up as live, and then to convey how long you were working on something once you stop the session and they view it as a normal post afterwards. These posts and the creation of projects are my main form of differentiation from any other site for now, but I'll be expanding that once I get past this MVP stage!
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