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I don't think it's fair to say it had nothing to do with the original concept. It's just a couple of steps removed: Idea 1: Allow strangers to sleep in your ho

• danieltillett 11y ago
  I don’t disagree that AirBNB in its current form is a fantastic idea, just that the original idea was dumb. It is great that they were able to pivot out of their original dumb idea (and all credit to them for doing this), but this doesn’t change that the original idea was bad. What I am objecting to is the idea that it was a good idea that just sounded bad. It was simply a bad idea that also sounded bad. If their original idea was we will develop a platform that will allow people to run an illegal hotel with their competitive edge being to send around professional photographers to make the properties look better than all their competitors then I would have said this is a great idea that sounded like a great idea. Edit. I am surprised that someone has not tried the same approach with private car sales (maybe they have). Good photographers are cheap these days so it would be possible to create a car sales site that offered free professional photography of the cars.