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refreshing to see some real problem solving in the valley, after unrealistic companies like "twitter" and "airbnb". an entire service based around a character
by woah 13y ago
refreshing to see some real problem solving in the valley, after unrealistic companies like "twitter" and "airbnb".
an entire service based around a character limit? a site where you rent your spare bedroom to random strangers? These people are crazy and those things will never work.
I'm really glad to finally see some companies that I can understand. Except for this weird food delivery one.
- henryaj 13y agoThis is a joke, right? Airbnb has changed the way I, and many other people, travel abroad. It's made a marketplace (in holiday accommodation and, perhaps more importantly, local hospitality) where there wasn't one before.
- amirmc 13y agoNitpick: There were such marketplaces before so it's not really fair to say airbnb made them. It is the one that's really 'gone mainstream'. There were likely auction sites before eBay, sync products before Dropbox and music players before the iPod.
- Terretta 13y agoHosting has long been a respectable way to travel but its marketing wasn't scaled. AirBnB is a very nice looking Craigslist for hosting. It may have created new behaviors among some millennials, but the chambre d'hôte crowd has been doing this since the 1800s. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_d'hôtes http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_d'hôtes I strongly preferred this approach versus hostels. I looked rooms up in dog-eared books at the tiny local "tourist office" (often sharing duty as post office or tobacco store). There was always something dirt cheap, though it was never quite clear what you'd find when you got to the room.