At the same time, the plan is still to keep the app in limited beta testing throughout the conference so they don’t get bombarded and have nothing to offer most people. But the key is the wide variety of spaces they’ll be opening. Polaris Ventures’ Dogpatch Labs will offer similar working space during SXSW, and the LiquidSpace guys thinks that’s great and hope they can work together to fill out that space. Their partner, Turnstone, is helping them out with all of this. They’ll also have a “badass” bus that will roam around the city allowing people to come inside and work. These will be places like Art House, Copa, a few hotels, and even some local startup spaces. The team is setting up a bunch of pop-up workspaces around the city that users will be able to reserve. It’s something that I’d probably use every day while on the road.Īnd LiquidSpace is going to see if there are others like me when they do their first major test of the service at the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Certainly an aspect of it will be co-working spaces, but there will also be places more tailored for private work and/or meetings as well. This idea is potentially huge for workers on the go. LiquidSpace will help these places maximize their potential. But these aren’t Starbucks locations, instead they’ll be offices, business centers, lounges, and all sorts of other places that people have set up with things like WiFi, but are under-utilized at various times. Their aim is to find the best spots around a city to work from and show them to you via a location-based mobile application. The service, which hasn’t launched yet, can most easily be thought of an Airbnb for workplaces. But what if a service existed that showed you other options for getting work done when you’re on the go? That’s exactly what LiquidSpace is going to be. But I know they have WiFi, so I go there anyway. I don’t know how many times I’ve been visiting a city, looking for a place to work, and have just ended up in a Starbucks.

Airbnb for workspaces