# Hi from Dublin

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**Category:** Founders\
**Created:** [March 4, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.coworking.org/t/hi-from-dublin/6037 "2017-03-04T09:31:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thilo\_Rusche](https://forum.coworking.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Thilo\_Rusche](https://forum.coworking.org/u/Thilo_Rusche)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.coworking.org/t/hi-from-dublin/6037/1 "2017-03-04T09:31:53Z")

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I just joined the group and wanted to briefly say hi. I’m a freelance software developer based in Dublin, Ireland, and am actively exploring opening a coworking space in my neighborhood. Dublin already has a few spaces, but they’re mostly aimed at startups. I’ve worked out of a couple of them, and in those place, while they’re really great, people tend to huddle with their own teams and be less involved in cross-sharing than I would like. So I’m planning to aim straight at people like myself, along the lines of “work for yourself but not alone” and “sum \> parts” etc. Any thoughts around that approach would be especially welcome!

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**Author:** ![alex](https://forum.coworking.org/user_avatar/forum.coworking.org/alex/32/338_2.png) [@alex](https://forum.coworking.org/u/alex)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.coworking.org/t/hi-from-dublin/6037/2 "2017-03-13T16:35:20Z")

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Hey Thilo!

> Dublin already has a few spaces, but they’re mostly aimed at startups. I’ve worked out of a couple of them, and in those place, while they’re really great, people tend to huddle with their own teams and be less involved in cross-sharing than I would like.

I hear this a _lot,_ so you’re not alone. I even jotted down one of the stories here: [https://medium.com/@alexknowshtml/ive-been-going-to-this-coworking-space-but-e3befd6cbf6b#.dtr6inwse](https://medium.com/@alexknowshtml/ive-been-going-to-this-coworking-space-but-e3befd6cbf6b#.dtr6inwse)

If you dig into that story, you’ll also find what the people in it did to find other people like themselves. Lots of good tips in there for ya 🙂

Good luck, and welcome to the group! Keep us posted on your community building progress.

-Alex

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> > I just joined the group and wanted to briefly say hi. I’m a freelance software developer based in Dublin, Ireland, and am actively exploring opening a coworking space in my neighborhood. Dublin already has a few spaces, but they’re mostly aimed at startups. I’ve worked out of a couple of them, and in those place, while they’re really great, people tend to huddle with their own teams and be less involved in cross-sharing than I would like. So I’m planning to aim straight at people like myself, along the lines of “work for yourself but not alone” and “sum \> parts” etc. Any thoughts around that approach would be especially welcome!
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**Author:** ![Thilo\_Rusche](https://forum.coworking.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Thilo\_Rusche](https://forum.coworking.org/u/Thilo_Rusche)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.coworking.org/t/hi-from-dublin/6037/3 "2017-03-14T08:51:06Z")

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Thanks Alex, very inspirational read!