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The site is down now, congratudolences. :) I have some experience building a market, although not with consumer goods. Reading about AirBnB's initial work, and

The site is down now, congratudolences. :) I have some experience building a market, although not with consumer goods. Reading about AirBnB's initial work, and also from talking to investors at Rover, getting one side or other of the market together is always where the work is. For AirBnB, apparently, it was listings. For you, that might be the case as well. Seems like the next step might be to hustle, hustle, hustle and figure out how to get a lot more equipment listed. I know for sure I'd rent a Mamiya 7 or a Leaf or a Leica M-Monochrom in an instant if it were out there.

derwiki 13y ago
Back up. First time I've ever needed more than one dyno :) Interesting that you'd like to rent more arcane gear; almost everything that has rented has just been "nice camera" or "nice lens".
- briandear 13y ago
  The Leica Monochrome is insane awesome. However, If I owned that camera, I would be almost excessively paranoid to lend that camera out.
- xwowsersx 13y ago
  I recently discovered this also. Was going crazy debugging my site, trying to figure out why it took so damn long to load the page...only to discover that with 1 free dyno, the entire app is just dead and then spins up when a request is made.
austenallred 13y ago
AirBnB's big secret was siphoning off Craigslist traffic. It really was a bit of marketing genius (note that they sold boxes of cereal all across the country for $50 each using Craigslist; they were experienced Craigslist spammers.) If you had a rental property up on CL, you got an email asking you to list it. They would often times relist that property on CL with a link back to AirBnB. They had a better product than CL for rental properties, so it worked like a charm.
- ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
  > that they sold boxes of cereal all across the country for $50 each using Craigslist; they were experienced Craigslist spammers. Could you expand on this? I haven't heard about it.
  - jaredsohn 13y ago
    http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Whats-the-story-behind-the-Obama-Os-and-Captain-McCains-cereals-that-the-Airbnb-founders-sold-before-Airbnb-was-really-successful http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Whats-the-story-behind-the-Obama...
cschmidt 13y ago
You can always rent a Leica M-Monochrom from LensRentals. In stock now... http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/leica/cameras/leica-m-monochrom http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/leica/cameras/leica-m-monoch... They don't do Mamiya, but they do rent the medium format Pentax 645D. They're a very good company to deal with.

derwiki 13y ago

Back up. First time I've ever needed more than one dyno :) Interesting that you'd like to rent more arcane gear; almost everything that has rented has just been "nice camera" or "nice lens".

briandear 13y ago
The Leica Monochrome is insane awesome. However, If I owned that camera, I would be almost excessively paranoid to lend that camera out.
xwowsersx 13y ago
I recently discovered this also. Was going crazy debugging my site, trying to figure out why it took so damn long to load the page...only to discover that with 1 free dyno, the entire app is just dead and then spins up when a request is made.

austenallred 13y ago

AirBnB's big secret was siphoning off Craigslist traffic. It really was a bit of marketing genius (note that they sold boxes of cereal all across the country for $50 each using Craigslist; they were experienced Craigslist spammers.) If you had a rental property up on CL, you got an email asking you to list it. They would often times relist that property on CL with a link back to AirBnB. They had a better product than CL for rental properties, so it worked like a charm.

ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
> that they sold boxes of cereal all across the country for $50 each using Craigslist; they were experienced Craigslist spammers. Could you expand on this? I haven't heard about it.
- jaredsohn 13y ago
  http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Whats-the-story-behind-the-Obama-Os-and-Captain-McCains-cereals-that-the-Airbnb-founders-sold-before-Airbnb-was-really-successful http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Whats-the-story-behind-the-Obama...

cschmidt 13y ago

You can always rent a Leica M-Monochrom from LensRentals. In stock now... http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/leica/cameras/leica-m-monochrom http://www.lensrentals.com/rent/leica/cameras/leica-m-monoch... They don't do Mamiya, but they do rent the medium format Pentax 645D. They're a very good company to deal with.