If only we could build the airbnb user base up in a day as well.
I (and most here) can clone most sites, but can't create a business.
Absolutely - Marketing first. Product second.
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#12If only we could build the airbnb user base up in a day as well.
I (and most here) can clone most sites, but can't create a business.
What the post is trying to achieve is to show people how easy it is to get the technology up and running. Especially with the tools available today.
The tech shouldn't hold you back. But of course, if you build it, they won't come. The marketing is another ball game entirely
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for catching that. We'll update the post with an attribution.
Thanks! Haha, the only reason I recognized it so quickly is because I use their tool so often. It's really awesome and deserves a mentioned wherever used.
Yeah, I missed that. I always attribute to breezi on my blog. Thanks for the heads up :-)
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#14I don't think you can call this a 'clone'. It's at most a proof of concept. I can build a POC of Airbnb in Rails in an hour. It doesn't mean I should build an Airbnb clone in Rails.
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#15If only we could build the airbnb user base up in a day as well.
Exactly. These "I built a clone of X in Y hours" posts seem to imply that a website or a mobile app are what makes a successful company. In reality they are just the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see are the countless hours of hustling, the distribution deals, the marketing, the organic growth of the brand, etc, etc. It could be like saying: "hey, I just built a clone of McDonalds; I made a burger with fries."
This is a demo of StackMob, AirBnB was probably chosen as a reasonably realistic example that isn't a todo app.
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#16In the conclusion, you say:
> What’s next? Well you can extend your app by adding payment options, email notifications, user feedback. . .
Aren't those core features of AirBnB? That's like saying "Next, you build the entire application." So you really haven't built a clone at all, you've just built an empty shell with a tiny fraction of the functionality.
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#17If only you could attribute your images properly. I can't find an attribution or mention of PlaceIt or Breezi anywhere. Example screenshot used in blog post: http://placeit.breezi.com/productshots/40
I hadn't heard of PlaceIt before. Thanks for mentioning it! I love how laid back their attribution policy is: http://breezi.com/blog/using-placeit-images-for-commercial-p... .
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#18If only you could attribute your images properly. I can't find an attribution or mention of PlaceIt or Breezi anywhere. Example screenshot used in blog post: http://placeit.breezi.com/productshots/40
If there's a need to assign attribution then there isn't a need to use this tool.
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#19In the conclusion, you say: > What’s next? Well you can extend your app by adding payment options, email notifications, user feedback. . . Aren't those core features of AirBnB? That's like saying "Next, you build the entire application." So you really haven't built a clone at all, you've just built an empty shell with a tiny fraction of the functionality.
Using Stripe, disquss etc it should be doable in a couple of hours/days.
Of course the main feature of AirBnB and the large copycats is the market penetration. Nobody cares if you have a fancy backend or e.g. a node.js based mobile app. It's about active users and transactions.
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#20In the conclusion, you say: > What’s next? Well you can extend your app by adding payment options, email notifications, user feedback. . . Aren't those core features of AirBnB? That's like saying "Next, you build the entire application." So you really haven't built a clone at all, you've just built an empty shell with a tiny fraction of the functionality.
This is absolutely true and I agree, but you also totally missed the point of the post, and this criticism is totally off-base.
OP wrote this post as a demonstration of how to get a native ios app prototype up and running quickly using tools like app design vault and stackmob, not in order to make any comments about airbnb or to actually try to make a full business out of this clone. The basic Airbnb interface/data structure was simply used as an example framework for the author to show off the tools and workflow.
I do think that an adjustment to the title would help to clear up the confusion around this -- this is not the only post in this thread making a similar criticism.