Welcome! We’re still a ways from opening, but I figured some of you might be wondering what's taking so long, so thought we'd check in.
When does Tabletop Library open?
We don’t know! We’re still waiting on a permit. We’re optimistic we’ll have one soon, and the construction team is standing by, so things will move swiftly after that. At this point, we’re guessing late fall / early winter. Promise that the next newsletter will include an opening date… or an opening date-ish.
We’re hiring a General Manager - know anyone?
We're hiring a GM to run daily operations—scheduling, events, inventory, and maintaining a space where people actually want to linger. Know someone with relevant experience and an appreciation for what we're attempting? Send them our way.
Curious what TTL will be like?
Nabeel and I made a video trying to answer that question. You’ll have to use a little imagination… but hopefully it gives you a sense of what we’re going for.
Other than that, here are a few decisions we’ve mostly made:
- Hours will be 5pm - 11pm weekdays, 9am - 11pm weekends
- It’s a membership club - i.e. you’ll pay a quarterly membership fee vs. coming in and paying for a table. We’re finalizing pricing, but the good news is that it’s going to be inline with the expectations of the majority of you who filled out our membership survey.
- We’ll also have a “coworking” membership tier that will make the space available during the day on weekdays.
- We’re planning on having events pretty much every night. We’ve concocted an elaborate matrix of board gaming personas and hope to have programming for everyone - for those of you who love discovering new games, for families, for people who like using board games to meet new people, for competitive gamers, etc.
- Of course you can bring your friends and family to play at TTL, but as many board gamers are painfully aware, some friends and family aren’t super excited to play the latest and greatest historically accurate simulation of peat bog management in mid 17th century East Anglia. So we built an AI concierge text messaging service that helps organize pickup games with other members. You just text, “Hey, I want to play ‘Cabbage Rotation: A Century of Brassica’ this weekend, can you organize a game?” And the concierge will text other members who are interested in this kind of game until it has enough to reserve a table. (Bonus: If your nerdiness transcends cardboard, we did a podcast talking about this and other ways we used AI to help create TTL)
That’s all for now!