Opening Day: We're Getting Close!
Opening Day: We’re getting close!
Last Wednesday — one year, four months, and nineteen days after filing (but who’s counting?) — our permit was approved and construction is underway! Thank you to the City of Berkeley for taking on this massively risky bet and approving a business where people will sit in chairs and play with cardboard.
There’s one more Final Boss Permit after construction is complete, but if all goes well (and why wouldn’t it?), we will be open by August.
Get a Founding Membership before we stop selling them on Friday
Founding members (now over 100 strong!) get special perks: Your name on a plaque, an exclusive t-shirt & bag, and we won’t change your membership price for two years. For context, while we’re trying not to muck with prices until we’re open (we want to see how frequently people come, and thus, how many memberships we can offer), but we will almost certainly muck with prices.
If you care about those things, you can still be a founding member, just join by this Friday, May 8th.
Launched Today: TTL @ Home - Recruit TTL members to your game nights
For board game lovers, it can be a challenge to find people that want to play the same game as you… not everyone has a family eager to play a four hour session of “Sheep Shearing: 1427.” Tabletop Library wants to help solve this by offering tools that make it easy to find and organize games with other members.
Today we’re launching TTL @ Home. While we await our official opening, members can use our app to organize a game night somewhere else. By using TTL @ Home, you can:
- Recruit other TTL members to your game night
- Borrow a game from our library
- Use our “whenisgood” style interface for coordinating a time with other players
Here’s a short video walkthrough
Try it out and let us know what you think. It’s new and may be rough around the edges, but if you approach it as an app built by a corner ice cream store — not a tech company — you’ll be blown away.