Hello World: Doors Open at the Commons Hub
A home for the emerging Hell’s Valley Commons — and now open for booking.
After years of setup, renovation, unexpected detours, and a lot of collective effort, we’ve made it: the commons hub is now officially open to the general public — as a full-fledged event venue and guesthouse in the Austrian Alps.
Hello world! We’re online, on the map, and starting to fill the calendar.
The past few months were a whirlwind of last-minute fixes, with just three community gatherings interrupting the flow — including the third edition of the Collaborative Finance Gathering, CoFi 3.
These test runs helped refine our processes and prepare us for what’s next.
But this week marks the shift: we’re open for real, taking public bookings, and ready to scale.
If you’ve been watching from the sidelines — now’s the time to come by!
🛠 What’s New?
Over the last few years, we’ve turned a timeworn rural guesthouse into a professional, community-rooted event venue — and a launchpad for our broader goal: a commons-based future for our valley.
Since taking ownership in January 2025, things have moved fast: with both of us (Emil & Felix) now full-time, joined by our first employee Daniel, a circle of steady contributors, and ongoing private investment, we've made major strides — turning vision into infrastructure, step by step:
10 handcrafted bunk beds → total capacity: 30 people
45 m2 coworking space & a proper team office
Fully renovated bathrooms with 2 new showers
Reliable Wi-Fi (1 Gbit/s) across the house and garden
POS system → yes, you can now pay by card
Hot Tub filter system (important!)
Fire safety upgrades
Beginning of a Fablab → 3D printer, laser cutter, workshop setup
New website launched; booking engine in progress
A lot of this came together during Hack the Hub 2025, a two-week marathon of hands-on hacking, rebuilding, reorganizing, and reimagining what this place could be. (You know who you are — thanks again.)
🏕 Pilot Phase: Done. Launch in 3… 2… 1…
Since soft launching in early May, we have hosted three multi-day gatherings, including the 3rd edition of the Collaborative Finance Gathering, which brought 45 people together for a week-long deep dive into collaborative economics.
Each event stress-tested different aspects, and in each we learned a lot. Now we’re ready.
From this week onward, we’re open to the world — and we’d love your help getting off the ground.
📣 Come Stay, Host, or Help
come hang with us!
Book a stay:
Is the city too hot to think straight? Your soul yearning for a walk in the forest, your skin crying for a plunge in mountain rivers?
→ Book short stays on Booking.com to up our ranking, or write us if you wanna come for longer or as a group.
Organize a retreat or group event:
We have beds for 30 (+ neighboring apartments) and indoor event space for 100 — perfect for offsites, hackathons, unconferences, or popups.
→ Talk to us, let’s make it happen!
Volunteer and get involved:
Want to help build the next layer of the hub? We're open to volunteers — whether you’re into gardening, construction, hospitality, tech or social media, do 4 hours of meaningful work per day and stay for free.
🫂 Help Us Fill the Calendar
You can also support us from afar, by spreading the word:
Know a professor, NGO, or DAO looking for an offsite location? Send them our way.
Got friends organizing a yoga retreat, hackathon, etc? We’d love to host.
Share this post on socials, or forward it directly to whom you want to join our tribe.
🎟 Upcoming: Crypto Commons Gathering
The fifth edition of the CCG, our biggest annual gathering and cradle of our community, is around the corner.
Workshops, discussions, downtime, bonfires, 50+ builders, thinkers, and activists from across the crypto-commons, ReFi, and alt-economy worlds, six days of creative chaos and mind-blowing conversations.
If you’ve been meaning to come — this is the one. And maybe… come a bit earlier?
Escape the city. Stay a while. Help set things up. Come dream with us.
🚀 What’s Next
We’re gearing up for the next big step on our path towards a Valley of the Commons:
Turning the Hub from a venue into a full-on event campus. The local church and chapel house are on sale, and we’ve spent the last month talking to lawyers, banks and local administration to make it happen.
sneak preview - a proper place to preach our gospel
To fund this expansion, we’re launching a community lending program.
No crowdfunding platform. Just friends, allies, and in-kind returns.
We’ll share more info real soon, and hope for your support.
