Hi all — Unoffice Hours host here! This has been a wildly successful experiment for me. ~360 calls booked since I made that post, about 300 calls. I’ve reviewed pitch decks, given design feedback, met monks, discussed work and careers with students, and chewed the fat with like minded people who I never would have met otherwise.
Sorry you can’t find a slot! It’s already booked up for the next 60 days and I use Calendly to keep a rolling availability window. I've just opened a handful of extra times in October and November.
I highly recommend making this part of your weekly rhythm too — it’s a big part of how I find new ideas, and it helps get me out of my bubble.
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glutamate
I have started doing office hours for my FOSS project. Every other week I will live stream to YouTube and people ask comments in the live chat, then I show how to do whatever it is they want to do. In the beginning as people are logging on I talk about what we have been doing for the last two weeks. I alternate between my mornings and my evenings so most uses can join one session no matter where they are.
Of course the first time I was worried that no one would show up. So for the first session I had a plan for what I would do if no one showed up or there were no questions. Now some people also submit questions in advance so I have a small agenda to get started with until people ask questions.
So far it's been encouraging. About 10 people join the live sessions and there are enough questions to keep the conversation going and not too many questions so I have to ignore some. But the most surprising is the recorded sessions get many more views afterwards. So it's a good way of generating content that people actually watch.
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andkenneth
Not sure if he had this turned off beforehand or if it's because it's on the front page of HN, but there's no slots available. Not that I was personally going to book one!
I'd love to do something like this though - I've always enjoyed teaching so maybe something where I offer free calls to help newer developers with their project for an hour? Interesting idea!
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genmon
If anyone's thinking of starting their own Unoffice Hours, someone started a webring with a good domain. It's semi dormant right now, but the site accepts pull requests and it would be a good place to start building community
Like a Lebanese mathematician in a heterotopia ascetics dial the Delphic node - on an as-is basis.
helloplanets
Definitely a tangent, but what an amazing example of the fact that you do not need a social media company to facilitate (and often ruin) the stuff that modern connectivity allows us to experience with other people.
Instead of complaining about the status quo and going abstinent, this sort of mindset is such a good alternative.
gberger
Other people's mouses and text selection is very distracting.
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darkwater
Title should have (2020)
fuidani
Same here. There are no slots available for the next three months. Nice idea.
consf
An open space for feedback, collaboration is always good
Hi all — Unoffice Hours host here! This has been a wildly successful experiment for me. ~360 calls booked since I made that post, about 300 calls. I’ve reviewed pitch decks, given design feedback, met monks, discussed work and careers with students, and chewed the fat with like minded people who I never would have met otherwise.
Sorry you can’t find a slot! It’s already booked up for the next 60 days and I use Calendly to keep a rolling availability window. I've just opened a handful of extra times in October and November.
I highly recommend making this part of your weekly rhythm too — it’s a big part of how I find new ideas, and it helps get me out of my bubble.
I have started doing office hours for my FOSS project. Every other week I will live stream to YouTube and people ask comments in the live chat, then I show how to do whatever it is they want to do. In the beginning as people are logging on I talk about what we have been doing for the last two weeks. I alternate between my mornings and my evenings so most uses can join one session no matter where they are.
Of course the first time I was worried that no one would show up. So for the first session I had a plan for what I would do if no one showed up or there were no questions. Now some people also submit questions in advance so I have a small agenda to get started with until people ask questions.
So far it's been encouraging. About 10 people join the live sessions and there are enough questions to keep the conversation going and not too many questions so I have to ignore some. But the most surprising is the recorded sessions get many more views afterwards. So it's a good way of generating content that people actually watch.
Not sure if he had this turned off beforehand or if it's because it's on the front page of HN, but there's no slots available. Not that I was personally going to book one!
I'd love to do something like this though - I've always enjoyed teaching so maybe something where I offer free calls to help newer developers with their project for an hour? Interesting idea!
If anyone's thinking of starting their own Unoffice Hours, someone started a webring with a good domain. It's semi dormant right now, but the site accepts pull requests and it would be a good place to start building community
https://unofficehours.com
Like a Lebanese mathematician in a heterotopia ascetics dial the Delphic node - on an as-is basis.
Definitely a tangent, but what an amazing example of the fact that you do not need a social media company to facilitate (and often ruin) the stuff that modern connectivity allows us to experience with other people.
Instead of complaining about the status quo and going abstinent, this sort of mindset is such a good alternative.
Other people's mouses and text selection is very distracting.
Title should have (2020)
Same here. There are no slots available for the next three months. Nice idea.
An open space for feedback, collaboration is always good