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One of the main reasons behind the death of Couchsurfing was that they pivoted to a company and became a startup[0]. I, on the other hand, don't want to make mo
by captn3m0 11y ago
One of the main reasons behind the death of Couchsurfing was that they pivoted to a company and became a startup[0]. I, on the other hand, don't want to make money on this.
There is also the issue of privacy. Would you be fine giving your travel information to a central third-party? I would like to keep HC to a minimum listing site and let people take conversations to a side-channel instead.
[0]: http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/13124/life-and-death-couchsurfing/ http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-...
- orthoganol 11y agoIt's mostly a problem that resolves itself. The digital nomad community is on average made up of professionals who are savvy and financially OK, who are all pretty similar and generally on the same page about things. It doesn't have all the variables of couch surfing, so I don't think you can meaningfully compare the two platforms. If someone manages to find the site, they're probably there for the right reasons. It might be as little as getting it sidebar'd on r/digitalnomad to get the right crowd on it. 100% agree with having conversations off the platform, I don't think it needs to be dramatically different than what you have now.
- drewmeyers24 11y agoThe big issue was they essentially changed from non profit to for profit 5+ years into the community. It would have been completely different scenario if the whole community was built with the understanding that there was a commercial aspect to it.