Airbnb: The Ebay for the Entire House

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Meta comment on terrible experience from Forbes website:

* Interstitial ad after clicking through;

* Short article spread over 2 pages unnecessarily;

* Hitting 'back' to return to HN a survey form pops up which I had to dismiss before I could return to HN.

Do they not see how ad-driven and user-hostile their site is?

They are listening, but can't hear because of the constant kachinging of their registers.

Edit: Also, the Forbes brand looks much better when it is on a newstand or sitting on a shelf in every waiting room that matters.

Readability[1] hid most of that from me; it's rare I don't use it on a mass-media site these days.

[1] http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

the only thing is that it is better to apply the readability bookmarklet on the print-version (single) page.

That's good press for AirBnB

Are they worldwide? I could move a lot of inventory.

They are, yes.

I'm curious...michael.schaecher@airbnb.com

Michael - I think you might have taken me a bit more literally than is accurate. What I meant is that I know of several holiday homes in my area that sit empty most of the time. Nothing major, just a few houses. A 'lot of inventory' was probably a poor choice of words.

For the record, I looked and there are a few sellers in my area but so far no reviews (or transactions?). The area is south east QLD in Australia. It's a popular 'getaway' location for people in Brisbane and Sydney.

nice article but what a terrible subtitle!

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