I saw a story on HN the other day about how NYC hotels are more expensive following an Airbnb ban. Back in the mid-2000s, Craigslist was Airbnb in NY. I never

I saw a story on HN the other day about how NYC hotels are more expensive following an Airbnb ban. Back in the mid-2000s, Craigslist was Airbnb in NY. I never stayed at a hotel when I visited. There were always rooms and apartments available to rent, especially on weekends. In 2008, I booked a ground-floor apartment in Brooklyn for $80/night for myself and some college friends. I miss that era. Airbnb reminds me of the Jobs quote about Dropbox: it's a feature, not a product. Craigslist did lots of things, that's what was great about it. It specifically eschewed the Silicon Valley ethos of trying to turn a side hustle into an IPO, and the mass regulation-skirting that involves. CL intentionally flew under the radar, and thus never created a situation where where investors and speculators reduced the supply of rental/for-sale housing to create inventory for Airbnb. With CL, we could have good things that didn't get enshittified as soon as the VC play money dried up.