Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb • Hacker News Board

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by ianmchenry » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

adambenayoun wrote: post #10

Sorry! Pricing is not yet available in Mountain View. Any plan on making this available in Mountain View?

Hi Adam! Yes, we are rolling out city-by-city in order of number of listings. Mountain View has around 400 active listings, so we should be there in the next month or so! We use a ton of data to derive our prices, rather than creating a generic pricing algorithm without data, so it's just a matter of getting that together and testing in each market.

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:01 PM UTC

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Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by crazypyro » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:01 PM UTC

markdennis wrote: post #2

I can't see airbnb being happy about this. What cut do you take?

Why would airbnb not be happy about this? They would really only be gaining money as their income is proportional to the owner's income. (Else this product doesn't help anyone, including the owner of the property)

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by dcalacci » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:04 PM UTC

Have you guys modeled what this would do to the airbnb economy as a function of how many users actively use your tool?

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by mimighost » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:09 PM UTC

Is this the beginning of the era of online housing bidding networks? Guess soon we will have Airbnb exchanges...

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by collkell » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

Great to see this on Hacker News! This has been my little secret for pricing my AirBnb the last couple of months! Guess the secret's out now.

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by venutip » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

  We model local demand for each night by modeling hotel prices, flight data, conference attendance & more.

God forbid you could just set what you think is a reasonable price for your rental, and have somebody else come along and think your price is reasonable, too.

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by glibgil » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

ForHackernews wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer couchsurfing.com anyway. It's an example of the actual sharing economy, and without the grey-area legal shadiness.

This part of couchsurfing (the third auto-suggest result when I start typing couchsurfing into Chrome) is my concern: http://www.businessinsider.com/couchsurfing-the-best-hook-up...

Concern troll is concerned

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by chollida1 » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC

glibgil wrote: post #18

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This part of couchsurfing (the third auto-suggest result when I start typing couchsurfing into Chrome) is my concern: http://www.businessinsider.com/couchsurfing-the-best-hook-up...

Concern troll is concerned

Please rethink these types of comments.

They don't do anything to improve Hacker News.

Re: Beyond Pricing – Automatic Dynamic Pricing for Airbnb

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Post by pmoods » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 7:25 PM UTC

I use something similar called Smart Host (http://www.smarthost.me). They told me they are supporting about 10 cities right now. It’s not automatic like Beyond, but they give me a bunch of context around their recommendation. Smart Host - The short-term rental price expert. www.smarthost.me