ThirdPass
Finding your place, made easy!
17 followers
Finding your place, made easy!
17 followers
It started with a small, recurring frustration. Every time I wanted to get out of the house to focus, take a call, or meet a friend, I'd lose half an hour across Maps, reviews, and Reddit guessing the wifi and the vibe, then show up to find every outlet taken. A cafe, library, or quiet corner is a 'third place,' and what you need from it changes by the day. So instead of ten tabs, ThirdPass is one: say how you want to spend your time, filter for what matters, and get a real feel for each spot.
I‘ve definitely spent too much time searching for a "good place to work." How does ThirdPass determine things like whether a cafe is quiet, has enough outlets, or is good for staying and working for a while? Is it based on user reports, owner-submitted info, or some other signals?
@evakk Totally, that search is the whole reason this exists. To your question:
It's less about "is it quiet this very second" and more about the character of a place: quiet seating, outlets you can actually reach, room to settle in for a few hours, wifi, outdoor space. Those come from a structured listing form. When a place lists or claims its spot, the owner answers that exact set of questions, so each attribute is declared at the source rather than guessed.
What keeps it honest is that those claims don't just sit there unchecked. People who've actually been can vet them through the feedback and community section (my personal n fav) side. If a listing says "quiet" but it's blasting music at noon, that surfaces and gets corrected by the people who were there.
It's genuinely early, so right now the vetting is simple: owner-declared, community-corrected. Your question is a good nudge. In the next version I want to make that smarter, turning the community feedback into a more structured, weighted signal so a listing self-corrects over time instead of waiting on someone to flag it. Thanks for this, it's exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to get right.
@evakk One thing I left out that's actually central to the vetting:
There's a nomination section, and putting up a place isn't just dropping a pin. You have to say why you like it: pet-friendly, good wifi, quiet, easy to grab a table, whatever made it work for you. So those reasons become small structured signals on their own. If a handful of people nominate the same cafe and most of them tag "great wifi" and "dog-friendly," that says a lot more than a single owner checkbox ever could.
It does two things at once: it surfaces the spots only locals know about, and it builds the attribute picture from people who actually spent time there, not just from the listing form. Right now those reasons are fairly lightweight, but they're exactly the raw material I want to lean on for the smarter, self-correcting vetting I mentioned. Early days, but that's the direction.