Startup Retreats

Find remote work retreats for you and your startup

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Find remote work retreats for you and your startup

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Maker

Hey Product Hunt! So happy to be here again :D This started after a tweet by PH's own @andreasklinger: https://twitter.com/andreaskling... It took me 8 months to go from that tweet, to doubting if there was a market, to re-adjusting the concept, to this. A lot of the time was simply me figuring out what I actually wanted to build and what the definition of a startup retreat was for me and what people would want me to build. Which wasn't clear for a long time. After having a dinner with Dutch startup kids @bramk @marckohlbrugge @basprass and @emieljanson kept bugging me if it was finished yet, I finally did a sprint and build this in the last week by working on it non-stop. I've deliberately chosen to not just limit to startup retreats, but also retreats for tech workers like Surf Office and even travel groups for digital nomads like Hacker Paradise and Remote Year. Which in a way are like "startup" retreats. It's still very early days for this market and I wonder where it's headed. So not pinning the definition down too precisely will probably be useful. Let me know what you think!

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11yr ago

Startup Stash

@levelsio FINALLY 😜🙌

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11yr ago

Rise

@levelsio super excited for this!! I hope we'll see more retreats pop up in the near future. But I'm sure that will happen. Kudos for shipping. 👊

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11yr ago

Loot

@levelsio Power to the Pieter 👍

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11yr ago

Yeah. Let's practice what you preach and book a trip together @bramk @emieljanson @marckohlbrugge @levelsio.

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

@levelsio you are epic.

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11yr ago

Keza

Oh this is awesome! What is your target user demographic? I'm assuming most large companies have dedicated HR teams to find the best retreat locations.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@realsimonburns Hey Simon! Good question! It's a bit broader than just startups. When I started to make this I focused on retreats for startups first, but found out that the market for those (e.g. full-serviced retreats) is not really there (yet). Instead I took a bit of a broader definition and aimed for retreats for tech workers doing startups, or part of startups. That means coliving and coworking retreats in tropical places for remote workers and digital nomads. Of those, there's starting to pop up a lot!

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11yr ago

@realsimonburns I'd actually be interested in seeing how many large companies actually use their HR departments to look for retreats like this. On a parallel note, fully outsourcing the HR department is something that I want to see. @levelsio, great job on putting one piece of this puzzle on the board!

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11yr ago

Remotive

@realsimonburns @levelsio That's a great one Simon - in my experience, I saw teams in some larger Tech companies (for instance, Google) that could choose where they wanted to go and gather for their retreats, for small teams (>20 people) there was very minimal guidance - as far as I knew :)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@tudstanciu Yes! Agree, I wanted to do that first, but it's hard to boostrap that from the start. I don't have a sales team and that's typically something you'd need to e.g. contact Google etc. to sell a retreat.

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11yr ago

@levelsio you are a machine! Love the progress you've been making with all of these projects. Can't wait to try this out with my team.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@nzieber Thanks Nick! Tell me how it goes.

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11yr ago

Spok

We are not a startup yet but my friend and I wanted to just travel for a little bit and work and this seems like it would be perfect for that.

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11yr ago

@matthui Come check out Hacker Paradise :)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@matthui You don't need to be a startup! Most of these retreats are "startuppy", so tech-related but for individuals too.

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11yr ago

Jupe

Beautifully done, and I love anything that gets people to move! One small bug: it seems like the map might not be working on some retreat landing pages. Looking at Surf Office in Lisbon, Portugal, it's showing me a map of San Diego.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@gillianim Thanks Gillian! Fixed it 🏆 And I agree, more people moving around is the goal. It's our evolutionary path as a species to unite and become one people.

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11yr ago

Jupe

@levelsio it's the same reason we build @hitlist_app

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11yr ago

@levelsio awesome goal. Learn by going.

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11yr ago

Looks good Pieter :) I'm one of the people behind Hacker Paradise - we've been to Costa Rica, Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Estonia, Barcelona, and Berlin. This fall we're going to Tokyo & Taiwan, and have a few fun trips in the works for 2016. Happy to answer any questions about our program & what we do :)

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11yr ago

Great idea @levelsio!! Would be great to add a feature to propose a pop-up retreat and for others to say if they are interested to join. For example, I would like to find a retreat in Tokyo for January 3rd to 13th (that's true so contact me if you're interested) but none are available. I'd like to be able to find people and organize it on my own through the website. Maybe rent an Airbnb with a few startupers and spend some time over there.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@seguin_m Yes! I'm building that too, it's called http://colive.co, just an MVP spreadsheet for now, if it gets traction I'll build an interface around it. I think that Colive.co will be the "self-organizing" part of this market, the "commercial" part is stuff like Startup Retreats

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11yr ago

@levelsio sounds good! thx for the link

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11yr ago

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