That sounds so retro now. In Silicon Valley, TechShop and TheShop.build went bust. The gym pay-by-the-month model didn't work. I was a member through most of the life of both of those. Hacker Dojo turned into something like WeWork, then had a staffer ripoff problem, then closed, then reopened recently. The local public library is opening a "maker space", but it's heavy on sewing machines and crafting.
Maker spaces don't seem to work well in high-rent areas. For software-only projects, they aren't really necessary.
> Hacker Dojo turned into something like WeWork, then had a staffer ripoff problem
What happened with the staffer?
+1 to the other points. It's quite an interesting challenge trying to find product-market fit for a capital-strapped hackerspace in an expensive city these days.
Maker spaces don't seem to work well in high-rent areas. For software-only projects, they aren't really necessary.