koffiework is now more social

In April, we launched koffiework for iOS so people could find work-friendly cafes faster while moving through the city. Since then, we have received a lot of feedback from early users and from people using koffiework on the web.

Some of that feedback was encouraging. Some of it was direct about where koffiework still needed to feel clearer, faster, or more useful. Both kinds matter. We are still growing, still learning every day, and still shaping koffiework around real cafe habits rather than polished assumptions.

This update is one more step in that direction: koffiework is becoming more social across iOS and web.

Follow people you trust#

Finding a good cafe to work from is rarely just about a map pin. Search filters help, but personal signals often help even more.

You can now follow and unfollow public profiles. Following someone makes it easier to keep up with the cafes they are discovering, reviewing, checking into, or saving publicly. It also gives public profiles more shape, with follower and following counts that open into connection lists.

For remote workers, students, freelancers, and cafe regulars, this adds a simple social layer to cafe discovery. You can follow friends, family, local coffee people, or other koffiework members whose recommendations feel useful.

A more personal activity feed#

The activity feed now brings together your own cafe activity with public activity from people you follow.

Instead of only searching when you already know what you need, you can open koffiework and see what is happening around the community:

• Recent check-ins from people you follow.
• Public cafe activity that may lead you to a new work spot.
• Signals from profiles whose cafe taste you already trust.

The goal is not to make cafe discovery noisy. The goal is to make it easier to notice useful places through people, not only through search.

A lot of polish behind the scenes#

This update is not only about visible social features. We also spent a lot of time polishing the back-end, the part of koffiework that keeps profiles, cafe data, activity, search, and app/web flows connected.

That work matters because koffiework should feel steady as the community grows. The more cafes, reviews, check-ins, lists, and profiles we support, the more important it becomes that the basics are reliable.

We also added safety controls across public profile and activity surfaces. Depending on where you are in the app or on the web, you can report, mute, or block. The community layer should help you find better places, not make koffiework feel harder to use.

Better together#

koffiework only gets better when more people contribute.

Every review, check-in, public list, and shared recommendation makes the map more useful for the next person trying to find a good place to work. The more real cafe data we collect together, the better koffiework becomes for everyone.

So if you find a cafe you like, add a review. If koffiework helps you, tell someone else about it. If something feels missing or wrong, let us know. We are still early, and the best version of koffiework is something we build with the community, not just for it.