Business: Cafe
SAFE Socially verified networking cafe with strangers   (+1)  [vote for, against]
A cafe where all the patrons that are there at the same time as you are verified as being who they say they are and have done what they said they did and there is open plan circular tables where you can sit with others

There would be tables for two persons, 4 and 6 (in a circle)

The goal is that you can meet new persons and network as part of your normal day.
-- chronological, Feb 23 2025

So, a normal café, but you have to show your passport to be allowed in?
-- pocmloc, Feb 23 2025


//done what they said they did//

Real-time resumé verification?
-- pertinax, Feb 23 2025


How scared has this newest generation become to think this sort of thing aught to be normal?

I swear we used to play chicken with throwing knives, and even lawn-darts or arrows if you were stupid enough when I was growing up, we'd run down stairwells of our apartment buildings spraying WD-40 on top of the steel railings to see who could make the deepest flame trail which would make it all the way back to the top, we'd make rocket engines from expended CO2 cartridges and strike-anywhere wooden match-heads with sparklers for wicks with a dumb-bell tube for a barrel, and chase each other through the bush using crab-apples for our sling-shot ammo...

...
...WTF happened?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 24 2025


How would matchmaking work? Would knowing the resume of the person next in line at the coffee shop make me more likely to talk to them? This seems like an application for VR goggles. It might work, or it might become an avenue for irl spam, like the random people who message me on LinkedIn.

Maybe this concept could improve social cohesion for apartment-dwellers who otherwise would not meet, or more generally for people in cities.

But would I want to see my own socially verified resume? "Likes halfbaked ideas. Harmless. A bit odd."
-- sninctown, Feb 24 2025


[fries], I was with you on the throwing knives.

[chronological], is there a possible refinement on the category?

And having survived open plan office pre-Covid I'm in no hurry to return to it, unless the compensation is appropriate.
-- normzone, Feb 24 2025


You could place displays on the tables so persons know what each table is doing or talking about.

Table for 3 please, were talking about Greenfield software versus rewrite.
-- chronological, Feb 25 2025



random, halfbakery