The opportunity
1/2 · Some pain
Czech cafés and their laptop guests are stuck: the table is held for hours, and those hours are never sold.2 sourcese15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says…medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- A café owner says one coffee can buy 5 hours of a table.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- Another café says laptop guests take the seats lunch customers need.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- A freelancer was told to shut her laptop after half an hour.medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
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The opportunity
About this section
- What this shows
- The problem as it is today: what goes wrong, and who it costs.
- Why it matters to a builder
- Documented pain means you will not have to convince buyers the problem exists before you can sell them the fix.
- How to read the score
- 2/2 means clear, recurring pain: documented complaints, a petition or industry pressure. Scattered complaints make it 1/2.
Czech cafés and their laptop guests are stuck: the table is held for hours, and those hours are never sold.2 sourcese15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says…medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- A café owner says one coffee can buy 5 hours of a table.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- Another café says laptop guests take the seats lunch customers need.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- A freelancer was told to shut her laptop after half an hour.medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
Four Prague cafés described the same weekday shape: people work from mid-morning until about three, and the room turns social after that.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- One of those cafés switched its wifi off, and a later owner switched it back on to fill the quiet daytime hours with working guests.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- The guest has no way to pay for the chair, and the café has no way to charge for it, so both sides argue about a coffee instead.2 sourcese15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says…medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- Czech coworking answers the same need in rooms of its own, and a catalogue of it counts 75 spaces in 35 towns.cowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.
- A café is open in the morning either way: the rent, the lights and the staff are paid whether the tables fill or not.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
Suggested solution
Build a booking app where cafés, hotels and gyms sell their quiet hours as work seats by the hour, as 3 companies already do in 3 other countries.
Why now
0/3 · No deadline
No law forces this; what has changed is that some cafés now switch the wifi off or ask guests to stop.2 sourcese15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says…medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- A café that pulls its wifi loses the guests who came to work.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- A guest told to shut her laptop loses the seat and the afternoon.medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- A venue with a quiet morning earns nothing from the empty tables.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
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Why now
About this section
- What this shows
- The dated rules and events that push buyers to act, soonest first.
- Why it matters to a builder
- A dated rule turns “nice to have” into “must buy by”, and tells you how long the window stays open.
- How to read the score
- 3/3 means an enacted rule binds these buyers within 18 months and names a penalty. Without a named penalty it is 2/3. A draft law, a rule on someone else, or a date further out is 1/3.
No law forces this; what has changed is that some cafés now switch the wifi off or ask guests to stop.2 sourcese15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says…medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- A café that pulls its wifi loses the guests who came to work.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- A guest told to shut her laptop loses the seat and the afternoon.medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- A venue with a quiet morning earns nothing from the empty tables.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
Nothing in Czech law requires or forbids selling a seat this way, and no dated duty falls on a café, a hotel or the person working there. What is dated is the argument itself:
- In February 2020 four Prague cafés described the working guest and what he costs them, and one had already removed the wifi.e15.czCzech café owners on working guests (another site)Four Prague cafés describe the same weekday pattern and its cost: one owner says a guest can turn a table into an office for five hours on the price of one coffee, and that café removed its wifi; another says the laptops clog the lunch seating.
- In February 2025 a Czech columnist wrote about being refused a laptop for half an hour and being told the takings were at risk.medium.seznam.czTurned away for a laptop (another site)A Czech freelancer describes being refused the use of a laptop for half an hour in a café, and reports being told she would be putting the takings at risk.
- In April 2025 the Czech press reported German cafés restricting laptops, quoted owners in Cologne and Hamburg, and asked whether the rules were coming here; it found no Czech café that had done it.udalosti247.czGerman cafés ban the laptop (another site)Czech coverage of German café owners restricting laptops, quoting owners in Cologne and Hamburg, and asking whether the same rules are coming to Czech cafés.
Willing to pay
1/2 · Some signs
People who work away from an office already pay Czech venues by the hour, by the day and by the month.2 sourcescowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold…
- A Prague café sells hours in its own work room.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Prague coworking operators sell day entry and monthly shared desks.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Meeting rooms in the city are sold by the started hour.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
Per hour
Per seat, monthly
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Willing to pay
About this section
- What this shows
- Who already spends money on this problem, how much, and how they buy.
- Why it matters to a builder
- If people already pay for this, even by hand or through a consultant, you are replacing a spend, not creating a budget.
- How to read the score
- 2/2 means a Czech buyer has paid for this, or a priced job also gets public money that pays part of it. A price on file makes it 1/2. Public money alone earns nothing. Only public buyers publish what they pay, so problems sold to private firms often score lower.
People who work away from an office already pay Czech venues by the hour, by the day and by the month.2 sourcescowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold…
- A Prague café sells hours in its own work room.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Prague coworking operators sell day entry and monthly shared desks.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Meeting rooms in the city are sold by the started hour.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
What each of them asks is in the prices below. Both are published rates rather than a signed deal, which is what the register can see: private firms do not publish what they pay. No Czech venue is paying anyone for a booking channel of this kind today, so a fee would have to come out of what the working guest already spends, and no Czech figure sets that fee yet.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
Per hour
Per seat, monthly
What one buyer pays
- 100 CZK an hour
- A sole trader or remote employee buying one hour of workspace in Prague 8 k633.czAn hour at a Prague café's work room (another site)A Prague 8 café sells the work room it runs round the corner by the started hour, which is what one seat for one hour costs today, bought one venue at a time.
- 3 500 CZK a month
- A sole trader or small firm buying one shared desk at a Prague coworking worklounge.comA month at a Prague coworking (another site)The established Prague coworking operator sells a shared desk from 3,500 crowns a month before tax, and a single day from 450 — what somebody who needs two hours a week pays instead today.
Validated abroad
3/3 · Proven in 2+ markets
Marketplaces that sell other people's spare space are established in the United States and Germany.2 sourcesliquidspace.comLiquidSpace (another site)The American version at scale: hosts list desks, private offices and meeting rooms — hotels among them — and anyone books them by the hour or the day, in more than 3,500 cities.sharednc.comshareDnC (another site)The German version, trading since 2015: ordinary firms let out the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities.
- DeskAmigo (another site)Based in Portugal
- LiquidSpace (another site)Based in United States
- shareDnC (another site)Based in Germany
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Validated abroad
About this section
- What this shows
- Companies abroad that already sell a solution, and how far along they are.
- Why it matters to a builder
- Established companies selling it in other markets show that buyers will pay, so you are not betting on an untested idea.
- How to read the score
- 3/3 means established in two or more markets, one of them near Czechia. 2/3 is one established company, 1/3 only early players.
Marketplaces that sell other people's spare space are established in the United States and Germany.2 sourcesliquidspace.comLiquidSpace (another site)The American version at scale: hosts list desks, private offices and meeting rooms — hotels among them — and anyone books them by the hour or the day, in more than 3,500 cities.sharednc.comshareDnC (another site)The German version, trading since 2015: ordinary firms let out the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities.
- portugalstartupnews.comDeskAmigo (another site)A Portuguese marketplace where cafés, hotels, gyms and studios list the space they are not using at quiet times and remote workers book it by the half day; it raised EUR 350,000 in September 2026 after its founders spoke with about 250 café and restaurant owners.In the source’s words“DeskAmigo is a marketplace for short-term workspace bookings, connecting remote professionals with businesses that have underused space available at different times of the day.”
Cafés, restaurants, hotels, gyms, yoga studios and surf schools list the space they are not using at quiet times and set their own prices, and remote professionals book it by the half day or the day. Soft-launched November 2025 and launched in January 2026; EUR 350,000 pre-seed announced 15 September 2026 from undisclosed Portuguese and British backers in hospitality, food and property. The founders spoke with about 250 Portuguese café and restaurant owners first, and one partner hotel took nearly EUR 2,000 in January alone. Portugal only, with Spain planned — pre-seed, so early on the maturity test.
- liquidspace.comLiquidSpace (another site)The American version at scale: hosts list desks, private offices and meeting rooms — hotels among them — and anyone books them by the hour or the day, in more than 3,500 cities.
Founded 2010. It raised a $14M Series C led by Roth Capital in October 2014, having passed 1 million transactions with 5,500+ vetted workspaces in 600+ cities across the United States, Canada and Australia, and reporting that its supply of hotel workspaces had grown 1,060% in a year. Its own site now offers 100,000+ desks, private offices and meeting rooms in 3,500+ cities, bookable by the hour or the day, listed by the hosts who own them.
- sharednc.comshareDnC (another site)The German version, trading since 2015: ordinary firms let out the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities.
Cologne, trading since July 2015. Ordinary businesses — agencies, startups and small and medium companies — let out the part of their office they do not use, and its own site counts 3,235 active listings from firms across 238 German cities. Free to list, and no commission from the renter. The travel group HRS invested in 2022. It brokers offices, shared desks, temporary rooms and meeting rooms rather than café tables, and by the month more often than by the hour.
An American marketplace founded in 2010 lets people book desks, private offices and meeting rooms by the hour or the day, listed by the hosts who own them, hotels among them.liquidspace.comLiquidSpace (another site)The American version at scale: hosts list desks, private offices and meeting rooms — hotels among them — and anyone books them by the hour or the day, in more than 3,500 cities. It raised a $14M Series C in October 2014, by which point it had passed 1 million transactions across 5,500 vetted workspaces in 600 cities, and said its supply of hotel workspace had grown 1,060% in a year.liquidspace.comLiquidSpace (another site)The American version at scale: hosts list desks, private offices and meeting rooms — hotels among them — and anyone books them by the hour or the day, in more than 3,500 cities. Its own site now offers more than 100,000 desks, offices and meeting rooms in more than 3,500 cities.liquidspace.comLiquidSpace (another site)The American version at scale: hosts list desks, private offices and meeting rooms — hotels among them — and anyone books them by the hour or the day, in more than 3,500 cities.
A German marketplace trading since July 2015 lets ordinary firms — agencies, startups and small companies — put up the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities.sharednc.comshareDnC (another site)The German version, trading since 2015: ordinary firms let out the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities. A travel group invested in it in 2022.sharednc.comshareDnC (another site)The German version, trading since 2015: ordinary firms let out the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities. It brokers offices by the month more often than tables by the hour, so the mechanism is proven there, not this exact product.sharednc.comshareDnC (another site)The German version, trading since 2015: ordinary firms let out the part of their office they do not use, and its site counts 3,235 active listings across 238 German cities.
The café, hotel and gym version is young. A Portuguese company launched it in January 2026 and raised 350,000 euros that September, after its founders spoke with about 250 café and restaurant owners; one partner hotel took nearly 2,000 euros in a single month.portugalstartupnews.comDeskAmigo (another site)A Portuguese marketplace where cafés, hotels, gyms and studios list the space they are not using at quiet times and remote workers book it by the half day; it raised EUR 350,000 in September 2026 after its founders spoke with about 250 café and restaurant owners.In the source’s words“DeskAmigo is a marketplace for short-term workspace bookings, connecting remote professionals with businesses that have underused space available at different times of the day.” No Czech example is on file.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
Market gap
2/2 · Open
Czech sellers of work space sell their own rooms by the hour, the day or the month, and none pools other venues.2 sourcescowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold…
New, selling this: nobody on file. Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: WHATSPOT (since 2022), cowork.cz, Coworking 6,33, EasyWeek, Spaces. Established, selling something nearby: WorkLounge (since 2016). No established player sells this here.
The space is still open
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2022WHATSPOT (another site)It sells an employer a booking system for the desks, meeting rooms and parking it already has, so the rooms and the people are on the same payroll and no money changes hands between strangers.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbycowork.cz (another site)It offers readers an independent catalogue of 75 coworking spaces in 35 Czech towns, with prices and access terms copied from the operators.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyCoworking 6,33 (another site)A Prague 8 café runs a small work room about a hundred metres from the café itself and sells it by the started hour, by the day and in packages of hours.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyEasyWeek (another site)It sells booking and scheduling software to coworking operators, so the seller of a seat is still the operator and the software never holds the supply.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbySpaces (another site)It sells hourly coworking access through an app, at its own centres in Czechia and abroad — the same by-the-hour purchase, inside a chain of dedicated offices rather than in other people's venues.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2016WorkLounge (another site)It sells memberships in its own rooms: day entry, a shared hot desk and a dedicated desk across six Prague branches, with published monthly and daily rates.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
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Market gap
About this section
- What this shows
- Czech companies that already sell this, and firms nearby that sell something else.
- Why it matters to a builder
- A mature Czech seller means taking customers from an incumbent. Firms nearby still matter: the buyer may already pay them.
- How to read the score
- More points mean a more open field. 2/2 means no Czech company sells this, 1/2 only early ones do, 0/2 a mature one does.
Czech sellers of work space sell their own rooms by the hour, the day or the month, and none pools other venues.2 sourcescowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold…
New, selling this: nobody on file. Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: WHATSPOT (since 2022), cowork.cz, Coworking 6,33, EasyWeek, Spaces. Established, selling something nearby: WorkLounge (since 2016). No established player sells this here.
The space is still open
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2022WHATSPOT (another site)It sells an employer a booking system for the desks, meeting rooms and parking it already has, so the rooms and the people are on the same payroll and no money changes hands between strangers.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbycowork.cz (another site)It offers readers an independent catalogue of 75 coworking spaces in 35 Czech towns, with prices and access terms copied from the operators.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyCoworking 6,33 (another site)A Prague 8 café runs a small work room about a hundred metres from the café itself and sells it by the started hour, by the day and in packages of hours.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyEasyWeek (another site)It sells booking and scheduling software to coworking operators, so the seller of a seat is still the operator and the software never holds the supply.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbySpaces (another site)It sells hourly coworking access through an app, at its own centres in Czechia and abroad — the same by-the-hour purchase, inside a chain of dedicated offices rather than in other people's venues.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2016WorkLounge (another site)It sells memberships in its own rooms: day entry, a shared hot desk and a dedicated desk across six Prague branches, with published monthly and daily rates.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
Sells something nearby 6
- Established: WorkLounge (another site)2 sourcesworklounge.comA month at a Prague coworking (another site)The established Prague coworking operator sells a shared desk from 3,500 crowns a month before tax, and a single day from 450 — what somebody who needs two hours a week pays instead today.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold…
It sells memberships in its own rooms: day entry, a shared hot desk and a dedicated desk across six Prague branches, with published monthly and daily rates.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms. It lists no third-party café, hotel or gym, so a guest cannot book the quiet corner of a venue down the street through it. Trading since 29 June 2016, with a sister company for the Dejvice branch registered in February 2024, and its site carries testimonials from named customer companies including Tabidoo and ExecutiveJob.cz.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Early: Spaces (another site)Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
It sells hourly coworking access through an app, at its own centres in Czechia and abroad — the same by-the-hour purchase, inside a chain of dedicated offices rather than in other people's venues.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms. It is the Czech arm of an international group; its Czech company could not be matched to a state-register entry with confidence, so no start year is recorded here and the maturity limb is left unclaimed rather than guessed.
- Early: WHATSPOT (another site)Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
It sells an employer a booking system for the desks, meeting rooms and parking it already has, so the rooms and the people are on the same payroll and no money changes hands between strangers.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms. Trading since 20 December 2022; it publishes no figure for how many firms run it and pairs with no public buyer in the state contracts register.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- 2 sourcesk633.czAn hour at a Prague café's work room (another site)A Prague 8 café sells the work room it runs round the corner by the started hour, which is what one seat for one hour costs today, bought one venue at a time.worklounge.comA month at a Prague coworking (another site)The established Prague coworking operator sells a shared desk from 3,500 crowns a month before tax, and a single day from 450 — what somebody who needs two hours a week pays instead today.
A Prague 8 café runs a small work room about a hundred metres from the café itself and sells it by the started hour, by the day and in packages of hours.k633.czAn hour at a Prague café's work room (another site)A Prague 8 café sells the work room it runs round the corner by the started hour, which is what one seat for one hour costs today, bought one venue at a time. This is the manual version of the idea and the closest thing found in Czechia: one operator, one room, its own guests. It publishes no start year and no count of who buys the hours.
- Early: cowork.cz (another site)cowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.
It offers readers an independent catalogue of 75 coworking spaces in 35 Czech towns, with prices and access terms copied from the operators.cowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator. It takes no bookings and no payments and tells visitors to confirm the terms with the operator before they turn up, so it sells attention to listings rather than an hour of anybody's room.cowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator. It names no operating company and no start year.
- Early: EasyWeek (another site)Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
It sells booking and scheduling software to coworking operators, so the seller of a seat is still the operator and the software never holds the supply.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms. A foreign vendor with a Czech page; no Czech company, start year or customer count was found for it.
Each firm's name, dates and customers are in its row. What they sell:
- An established Prague operator runs six branches and sells day entry, shared desks and dedicated desks in its own rooms.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- An international chain sells access by the hour through an app, again at its own centres.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- A Czech booking product lets an employer reserve the desks and meeting rooms it already owns, so no money passes between strangers.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- A Czech catalogue lists coworking spaces and takes no bookings; it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.cowork.czThe Czech coworking catalogue (another site)An independent catalogue of Czech coworking counts 75 spaces in 35 towns, lists their prices and access terms, and takes no bookings — it tells visitors to agree the terms with the operator.
- A Prague café runs a small work room about a hundred metres away and sells it by the started hour, one venue and one room at a time.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Meeting rooms in Prague are sold by the started hour too, by the firms that own the rooms.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
- Software vendors sell coworking operators the booking screen, so the operator still holds the space.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
Nobody sells the quiet hours of a venue they do not run themselves, and nobody offers a guest a seat in a café down the street the way they offer a desk in their own.Market checkworklounge.comMarket scan — who sells a Czech venue's quiet hours (another site)Six Czech searches in the words a customer would use found coworking operators selling their own rooms, a booking product for an employer's own desks, a catalogue that takes no bookings and meeting rooms sold by the started hour — and nobody pooling the quiet hours of cafés, hotels and gyms.
Execution difficulty
3/3 · Easy
Makes it easier
- No licence stands in the way.
- Venues already sell work seats by the hour.
- The product is an ordinary booking app.
Makes it harder
- Both sides have to arrive together.
- A venue that lists a quiet room earns nothing until the first booking lands.
P-0049 · A café can lose a table for 5 hours to one coffee, so laptop guests get turned away
Execution difficulty
About this section
- What this shows
- What stands between you and the first sale: who buys, what permission selling needs, what it must plug into, and whether it needs outside money.
- Why it matters to a builder
- It tells you whether a small team can start selling soon, or needs a licence, a certification or funding first.
- How to read the score
- More points mean easier to enter: 3/3 is easy, 0/3 very hard. It is not added to the Opportunity total, and local competition does not count here: that is Market gap.
Easy
Makes it easier
- No licence stands in the way.
- Venues already sell work seats by the hour.
- The product is an ordinary booking app.
Makes it harder
- Both sides have to arrive together.
- A venue that lists a quiet room earns nothing until the first booking lands.
Local competition does not change this level. It is covered under Market gap.
Suggested first moves
- Build a booking page for one café that sells its quiet morning as work seats, and run it for a month.
- Call the owners who switched their wifi off and ask what would make a working guest welcome again.
- Sign venues one street at a time, so the first guests always find a seat within a short walk.
P-0049 · A café can lose a table for 5 hours to one coffee, so laptop guests get turned away
Suggested first moves
About this section
- What this shows
- A few concrete steps to start with.
- Why it matters to a builder
- They are cheap ways to learn whether buyers will pay, before you build much.
- Build a booking page for one café that sells its quiet morning as work seats, and run it for a month. Pick a venue that already lets people work and that empties out between breakfast and lunch; the argument about who may sit where is in Why now. Give the owner a printed rate and one simple rule for how long a seat is held, take the bookings by hand at first, and see whether a guest will pay for the chair instead of buying another coffee.
- Call the owners who switched their wifi off and ask what would make a working guest welcome again. They are the ones who have already counted the cost, and they said so in public; see Why now. Their answer sets your price, because what you charge has to sit under what the same person pays for a coworking membership today, which is in Willing to pay.
- Sign venues one street at a time, so the first guests always find a seat within a short walk. A guest opens an app that has somewhere nearby and closes one that does not, and a venue that never gets a booking takes its listing down; that cold start is the real gate, as Execution difficulty says. A single district that works beats a thin map of the whole country.
- Ask the coworking operators who already sell day entry whether they would list their empty hours too. They sell their own rooms and nothing else today, which is what Market gap sets out, and their quiet stretches cost them the same rent a café's do. They also know what an hour of a desk is worth, which is more than most café owners do.