This is awesome!
I was just planning to start a trip around the world next year. Great idea, waiting to see the execution
Nomadic: Zipcar for apartments, for people who only need the Internet to work.
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#22I'm such a novelty whore: I bashed my email address in the form on nothing more than the headline here. Sounds like a fantastic idea, though.
I'm such a chicken: I put the URL into Google Reader, and got a notification feed.
http://www.google.com/notificationservice/webchanges/webfeed...
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#23Re: Nomadic: Zipcar for apartments, for people who only need the Internet to work.
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the Zipcar analogy holds, then the company will own the apartments and there will be no permanent residents.
I think this would work even better if they had 1 permanent resident to keep the place clean, and such. Free rent?
That pretty much describes AirBnB (or CouchSurfing if you take out the free rent).
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
how is this different to a hotel? When you buy time at a hotel, you're buying a bundle of services. You're getting a room, with a door that locks. You're getting regular cleaning service, even if you don't need/want it. You're getting a private bathroom. You're getting privacy from the locals even if you don't need/want it. You're getting geographically limited because you can only get a hotel room in a place where t…
So basically this is a hostel with good internet access?
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#26I'm getting a 500 when I try to sign up for the list. How unfortunate, this idea is awesome.
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#27How is this different from couchsurfing?
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#28This is basically a timeshare company, except the condos will be in places nobody ever wants to go to on vacation, right?
Haha - except when you say, "places nobody ever wants to go on vacation," I read, "places that aren't boring, but may not be on the beach."
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
how is this different to a hotel? When you buy time at a hotel, you're buying a bundle of services. You're getting a room, with a door that locks. You're getting regular cleaning service, even if you don't need/want it. You're getting a private bathroom. You're getting privacy from the locals even if you don't need/want it. You're getting geographically limited because you can only get a hotel room in a place where t…
So basically this is a hostel with good internet access?
Surely your not suggesting that a hostel always has privacy, a door that locks, private bathroom, prime location in a CBD and the other things mentioned?
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#30How is this significantly different from CouchSurfing.com?
If the Zipcar analogy holds, then the company will own the apartments and there will be no permanent residents.
The way they word it makes it sound like that isn't the case, though. It's possible that by "access to a network of places to stay all over the world" they mean access to a network of places they own and operate, but I'd take it as hinting otherwise. The "places to crash" and "instant friends" especially makes me suspect that these apartments will be owned by other people, possibly even inhabited by them? But it's rather unclear. If they did own them all, I'd be impressed that they were able to quickly build up an international network of property holdings, and the support staff to clean/maintain them!
If they don't own them, then the novelty seems like it'll be in the payment/pricing structure, which they seem to hint will involve ZipCar-like membership fees and daily pricing. Otherwise it sounds quite similar to AirBnB or any of the other "vacation condo rental" or "short-term apartment rental" sites.