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> That said, the platforms that choose not to cash in on this tend to not be as successful. Couchsurfing wasn't.

By what metric? The people I know who use couchsurfing.org seem very enthusiastic about it, which is obviously anecdotal but it's odd to be reading that it's a failure.

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Probably total number of people sleeping at Couchsurfer vs AirBNB places per night. In this sense, AirBNB is introducing more people to the concept.

I have used both, and AirBNB is much easier in cities, where Couchsurfing hosts probably get way too many requests.

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