San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month
San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month
$700 a month to live in a coffin where you can't even have sex.
If you're living in a place where renting a pod with less space than a prison cell costs nearly as much as a studio somewhere else... move.
I don't know. If I were young and single and fresh out of college with a six figure job offer at a San Francisco company, I would consider this, at least until I got my footing.
Sure, it might suck, but I could put up with a lot of suck in order to be able to pocket that much spare cash.
I'm very far away from "young," but I was once. Even in my early 20s, this would have seemed terrible. Sure, you have access to an interesting city, but you have no space for anything you can call your own. Even a rented studio anywhere else gives you somewhere to have a home you can call yours.
I feel like the main draw is location.
Most of the people living in these pods are startup founders, so it makes sense for them to live in shitty pods next to their potential clients and investors.
Weirdly these people are probably making 100-300k salaries.
with a privacy curtain
Sheesh what a deal
Oh man, I loved this part of Hengsha in DX:HR. Such an exaggerated and creative depiction of a hypercapitalist, dystopian hellhole.
I don't support this, but I could definitely have sex in one of those.
That sounds like you support it
btw The positions you could use are pretty limited because of the small space. Would you support it from underneath? Missionary? Superman? And what do you do with the waste materials. Are you free later?
I bet almost everyone in them will
700 a month !? It's cheaper to live in a cube hotel in cyberpunk red (the ttrpg), and the room is even bigger (I mean, not much, but at least the bed can fold and you can have a table, and even a chair, during the day)
Well they're less expensive than the housing pods in [another game] so it's a wash
What's stopping someone else from coming into your pod and accosting you?
That's included?
They got rules, man.
Imagine all the bed bugs
Wasn't this a part of "Sorry to Bother You"? Fucked up
Maybe they have really good services to justify the price? Cooked to order breakfast and valet service?
Probs not, but I'm kinda at a loss for what else the draw could be.
They are in San Francisco while working on their tech startups.
Based on that picture alone, there are 24 pods. So 24 x $700 = $168k per mo or over $2m a year.
Edit: oops! Tried to math too late at night.
24 x $700 = $16.8k per mo or over $200k per year
I think you have an extra 0 there
24 * 700 is just over 16,000, not 168,000
It’s startup math.