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Hi Ouriel,
not sure that someone will achieve disrupting Airbnb for the following reasons:
A) Scrolling problem:
must have been overseen by lack on testing on smaller laptop screens.
This is what happens when you give large high definition screens to your webdesigners / progammers:
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4eb96afc6bb3f78646000069-590/the-office-itself-is-pretty-swanky-as-fits-a-member-of-the-billion-dollar-club-those-chairs-look-comfy.jpg
Should be easily fixed by the Airbnb team.
B) Not available / Contact the host
How to manage availabilities on a marketplace renting private rooms?
The only way to push renter / owners to update their calendar availabilities is to keep on sending them cutomer requests / notifications (with $$$ indication). Otherwise you might never have a chance to have as much listing as airbnb, therefore making the marketplace experience useless for end-users.
Happy to hear your thoughts if you have a better approach to incentivize owners to update their calendars.
Airbnbroken
Airbnb is supposed to disrupt the Hotel industry. Who will disrupt Airbnb? Because there is a lot to disrupt in this service that has a very poor conception from the user/renter point of view Yes, i know. Airbnb is super successful so there is nothing wrong about it…wrong! Behind the growt...
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