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Does anyone want an Airbnb alternative with lower or zero fees for hosts?
Hi all,
I recently have been building an app that is offering no fees for hosts. My question is, would that be something that would make hosts switch over or does Airbnb have some other special sauce?
I don’t need to compete head on, I just want to be able to offer something more affordable.
Guests would pay half of the fees they do on Airbnb.
I think there is a valid group of people who would switch.
- harisikram84 3y agoWould love a solution with better insurance and support in case of issues
- nomad-dude 3y agoCould you elaborate? It would help me understand and implement this into my own app :)
- themerone 3y agoIt means that you become the financial guarantor for all bookings, both for losses by the guest and host, and not be stingy about issuing reimbursements.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoWhich would mean higher fees, of course.
- sharemywin 3y agoI would think it's about whether you can bring bookings.
- aj_icracked 3y agoAs an airbnb host for a ADU, they only charge me 3% of bookings and I'm nearly always booked (probably 80%). Hypothetically let's just say it does $50k / year in bookings... paying airbnb $1500 for the customer base, support, booking engine, etc is super cheap. Airbnb is really only expensive as a guest IMO.
- themerone 3y agoHosts won't switch away from Airbnb to a platform with no customers. Some might duel list, but then all the bookings will end up happening on Airbnb anyway. I would expect that to start generating real revenue, you would have to spend tens to hundreds of millions on customer acquisition.
- ada1981 3y agoMyplace.co is a small competitor. No fees. You need to provide bookings if you want people to switch.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoThe Airbnb platform provides a very useful and lucrative service to hosts. Therefore I have a question the business reasoning to offer it for free, certainly there is no affordability issue here.