A directory of places to find calm in a noisy world
For those who have never been to Mexico City, it is a very noisy city. A year ago, I was walking around it, looking for a place to sit with my computer for a while. At one point, I stumbled upon El Colegio Nacional, and once inside, there was complete silence. I was right in the city center, and suddenly, it became silent.
According to the WHO, almost more than 30% of the urban population is exposed to noise levels above the recommended limit. Do you remember the last time you were in complete silence? I can count those moments on one hand.
From there, an idea emerged: to create a directory of places to be in silence, especially focused on large cities. Being in silence is beneficial for both our physical and mental health. It's very important.
I'm sure that, just like El Colegio Nacional was a refuge for me that day, there are many others that can be a refuge for other people.
For now, my idea is to compile these places and later display them on a map. If you have such a place or know someone who does, it would help me a lot if you share it.
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I feel your point, but I believe this directory shouldn't be open to public otherwise even those places will become noisy.
I am from INDIA and I know lot of calmer places within the country but not gonna reveal it to public.
My main idea with making the map public is that people who don't have as many resources can still access these places.
I understand your point, maybe that's why I'm finding it hard to get people to suggest more places.
How would you approach it?
@albertogalca I agree on the cleanliness of the website, great job! I disagree on keeping it secret.
You can take the Fight Club style approach (not exactly "if it's your first time, you have to fight", but close). I'm thinking something along the lines of: "If you don't/can't pay for access, you have to share a quiet place that is not in the directory"
You are asking people to share quiet places already, so this free tier already exists. A quality contribution is worth free access for some amount of time, maybe it's worth a lifetime membership or membership for the lifetime of that quiet place.
The ones who can pay and really need a quiet place, will gladly pay. If you feel like too many people are paying, raise the prices. You'll find a balance between the people who only pay for this information and the ones who contribute it.
I don't know what that balance is, nor do I have a feeling for the price point. Maybe the balance is 1% paid to 99% free, or 5% to 95%, or 0.1% to 99.9% or something like that.
I'm confident that once you go to a quiet place, calm your mind and look at your user traffic, you'll figure it out ;)
Best of luck, thank you for launching this project!
Hi Alex!
Thank you very much. I think your idea is very good. I'll think about it. This way is not public for all people, but at the same time you can access it if you contribute without paying a dollar.
On a positive note, I really like the design of website.
Clean and to the point.
Well, I do feel that it is better to keep it to yourself rather than making it public.
People who need calmer places will find their way.
Let it be organic completely.
Thanks for your honesty :)
As someone who spends a lot of time trying to to find quiet (abandoned parts of building complexes, basements, etc), I empathize a lot with this!
Though I worry that making these places public will ruin them at the end of the day. Many places are only truely silent because they don't have people there!
That's a good point.
My idea with making it public is to monetise other parts of the product but to leave the map public so that people who don't have the resources to pay for it can still access it.
If it is true that as a counterpoint this allows more people to discover these places and that they can be totally ruined.
How would you approach it in order to find a balance?
Frankly, I agree with @saiindra here. I don't want to rain on your parade, but people who really value silence enough will find places that are quiet. The effort it takes to find those places is an important barrier.
I also never tell folks my quiet places.
I had thought about it but right now it's not a problem because we don't have a lot of traffic. I will figure out a way to find the balance.
Thanks you for your honesty Anderson :)
Great Idea Alberto. Good luck on that!
Thank you Germán :)
Sounds like a great idea, I hate noise too.
Maybe there are ways to make data collection automated? Like using users' phone microphones to detect noise levels, and if there's low noise levels for a prolonged amount of time with the user staying in the same spot, send GPS data on the background to your app and create a new entry. Maybe silently notify the user, and when they have time, they can add details for the place that was added if they want to (or delete it if it wasn't a good candidate).
One idea I have is to create a "Kalm Score". This first involves having a mobile app, as I think it is the easiest way to do this. That way you can simply record a piece of audio (which will never be saved anywhere) and calculate the decibels using a external service. An average will be generated and according to some criteria a score will be applied to that place.
But first we have to validate the idea can be monetized before doing that development.
cool
I can see how some issues may arise if the app gets popular and many people flock to these once-secluded, quiet places.
The partner of this project here, Matt!
Thanks for your feedback. Very useful.
We are working to ensure that this does not happen and so that people feel 'safe' suggesting their places.
Would you share your places if the map is not public?
No, I don't think I would. I have had many cool, secluded spots in many of the places I've lived, and they were only cool while they remained secluded. Once people started finding out about them, I stopped going.
And I don't tell anybody other than a few close friends about the cool spots I know about where I live now.
The only time I share about a place is if it's a business. If it needs people to remain open I'll tell people about it.
Hi Alberto. If you don't mind would like to give you some free customer analysis report. From this customer analysis, you could understand what you potential customer are doing online and change your marketing strategy accordingly mainly on reddit posts, and blogging.
Here is the customer analysis : KALM CUSTOMER ANALYSIS
From the customer analysis "noise pollution" are one of the most frequent subject your potential customer are searching online ( google traffic 165K and on average around 364 up vote and 118 comments on reddit on this subject ).
If you adjust your blog posts and reddit using these analysis, your posts will be closer to getting your potential leads.
Going deep on the subject here are top things that your customer are interested about the subject :
reducing noise pollution in cities
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If you blog posts and reddit posts include these as the title, there is very high chance people will click on it and pay attention to it.
Hopefully you will look into the full analysis as it will help you gain more leads.
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I hope indiehackers team look into this !!
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