Danish coworking space — client brief, built as a working demo
Coworking and shared offices
A Danish coworking space wanted members to book a table by the hour and pay for it — because at 20 kr. per hour per table, a booking that has not been paid for is not a booking. tableflow.grn.dk is that system, built from the client's brief and running live: an hour grid that shows what is actually free, a fifteen-minute payment hold that releases itself, and an admin screen for the people who run the place. Plain PHP and MariaDB — no framework, no dependencies, 853 lines in seven files.
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