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Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Did you make this with bubble.io? Asking because I get the same cloudflare notice when using Firefox tracking protection. > Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources If so, what was the experience like building something a bit more involved? (though I guess this would be possible using one of their templates).

The bottom of the page notes "Built without code on Bubble" so it looks like you are right.

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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"Airbnb for storage" i knew you were putting in the hn title, so we could all relate, but you have that quote right on your site... are you even allowed to say that? aren't you infringing on Airbnb? i don't know about this... as others have pointed out, i wouldn't want someone sending me something illegal and getting int trouble for storing it. best of luck though.

Pretty sure Airbnb owns the trademark on "Airbnb" so you can't use it this way. You might be able to get away with comparing your service to Airbnb in the context of a "testimonial" or something, but almost certainly not in a tag line.

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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"Hey bro, we aren't storing my drug-lab at my place" "Don't worry man, I know a place." Good luck though. I'd much rather store some furniture for people than have them sleep in my house.

very good point, I will have to think of a way to prevent this

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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post #29

Did you make this with bubble.io? Asking because I get the same cloudflare notice when using Firefox tracking protection. > Your browser was unable to load some necessary resources If so, what was the experience like building something a bit more involved? (though I guess this would be possible using one of their templates).

I am by no means a coder, but I can use adobe applications with no problem, and this was very fun to use. highly recommend it

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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"Airbnb for storage" i knew you were putting in the hn title, so we could all relate, but you have that quote right on your site... are you even allowed to say that? aren't you infringing on Airbnb? i don't know about this... as others have pointed out, i wouldn't want someone sending me something illegal and getting int trouble for storing it. best of luck though.

will change it now

edit: it is changed now

Re: Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

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Out of college I worked on the finance side of a self storage investment company (thank god I left after 4 years), so I know the ins and outs of the business. The number one deciding factor for customers is location. Coming in a close second is security . In a far distant third is price. Self storage employees can only access your unit in the event of an emergency, eviction, or a warrant from law enforcement. For sel…

Self-storage businesses are not universal. There are plenty of countries where they don’t really exist at all for individuals (only for corporate customers). There, people who are moving out of their flats and e.g. going abroad for a year and need to stash their stuff, are used to just finding someone with some spare space in his basement or garage. In my experience, people don’t really seem concerned about security;…

> In my experience, people don’t really seem concerned about security;

> But since finding a storage place is already a pretty standard part of the local Craigslist/OLX website in these countries, there isn’t much room for a new website to come in and disrupt things

it sounds like the markets you are describing only function for people who don't value security, which means that there is a potentially huge unfullfilled market for people who DO value security.

it soudns like there is lots of room for a new website to come in and disrupt things, as long as they cater towards the market that values security.

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