Yep - agreed. We're a relatively new team, so there is a lot more to come. Our larger goal is around making a lot of data accessible and actionable for owners everywhere. Stay tuned!
Great call on sharing a more robust write-up. We're going to be watching the market closely over the next 10 days and will share more here.
For our team, one of the more interesting aspects of continued observation will be a more fine-grained understanding of price elasticity around such a major event.
If the link leads you to an ‘area search’, that means the user removed their listing from Airbnb, likely after having booked their place for the Super Bowl. Often, these are people who _only_ listed their place for the Super Bowl, a trend we expect will continue around other big events.
We analyze the market throughout the day, and on each pass, remove these listings from our results page. In the mean time, those ‘area searches’ illustrate the speed at which vacation rentals are booking for the Super Bowl!
- I'm Andrew, co-founder of PriceMethod. Thanks for the comment!
This makes it easy to send Gifs to friends via text. Essentially, instead of texting emoticons, you can easily send over full Gifs that you find/love. Brilliant, really.
Seems like Facebook can own the peer-to-peer payments. Integration with retailers would be even better. Retailers certainly would LOVE to allow me to pay & share my experience via Facebook...
Agreed - and we think your friends would benefit from those short, honest, insightful comments as well.
Its all about providing an environment where people you care about can easily find your recommendations... so that when you do find a 5 star place, your reviews will be taken seriously.
Interesting point - what if your reviews are shared between your friends? Our findings are that people can be honest in a community where they know their recommendations will mostly help their friends find great places.
In short -- Apple's focus on perfection/design (they plan on 'throwing out' 90% of their work) is hard to match for a young start-up with limited time/money/(talent).