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I'd put Airbnb as a competitor to hostels, they're not really competing with Craigslist directly.
by dstein 15y ago
I'd put Airbnb as a competitor to hostels, they're not really competing with Craigslist directly.
- voidfiles 15y agoFunny, because they seem to get quite a few referrals from craigslist.
- oscilloscope 15y agoWikipedia gets quite a few referrals from Google. Are they direct competitors?
- astrec 15y agoThat depends on your view of Knol.
- nedwin 15y agoIt's easy to look at the problem with Craigslist and think that to challenge it you should build something which does everything that Craigslist does. AirBNB is a competitor to Craigslist in that it is helping to take it apart piece by piece. Hopefully other YC companies will take on other categories / pieces
- qq66 15y agoThey're competing with a specific part of Craigslist, namely short-term accommodations. Other companies are competing with other parts of Craigslist (e.g. StubHub)