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I recently co-founded a startup (http://outpost.travel http://outpost.travel) that aggregates the 'sharing economy'. So far we've had a great response to it fro

I recently co-founded a startup (http://outpost.travel http://outpost.travel) that aggregates the 'sharing economy'. So far we've had a great response to it from investors and users. It's been a crazy experience going from idea to MVP to where we are today and I get exactly what they mean when they say to keep an eye on startups/sites like Airbnb/Vayable. Almost all our users hadn't known about Airbnb before we introduced them to the whole P2P travel experience and quite a few then booked experiences, rideshares and place rentals using us. The one think that I am concerned about is that quite a few federal/state tourism agencies are now banning P2P travel as theres no taxes being made and it takes away from bigger chains such as Hilton and Holiday Inn.

trevorstarick 13y ago
And there goes the backend... We're fixing the problem should be back in a few min. Sorry about that! EDIT: Fixed!
- wikiburner 13y ago
  Did you really get HNed just from a link in your comment, or was the outage coincidental?
  - trevorstarick 13y ago
    We don't have a dedicated server set up (We got one yesterday but its been having technical issues). Had to disable some features that were requiring too much. I honestly wasn't expecting this much traffic this quickly. I guessed wrong :P
  - graeme 13y ago
    I had top comment on pg's most recent essay; I got an extra 1,500 visitors to a subreddit I mentioned in the comment. And my comment only rose to the top when the essay was quite far down the frontpage. The link in this post was top or near top at the time this essay was #1, so I imagine they got quite a few visitors quite fast.
- lambtron 13y ago
  .travel as a top level domain? Nice! How did you go about getting this may I ask?
  - wikiburner 13y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.travel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.travel - I assumed it was one of the new "buy your own TLD" for $200k (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/icann-to-expand-top-level-domain-names-applications-start-jan-12-2012/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/icann-to-expand-top-level-d...), but apparently .travel has been around for 8 years.
  - askovi 13y ago
    By applying to the .travel Registry Association as a registered business with it's main focus being traveling. Once they accept you, you can register a .travel domain from one of the registrars they provide. There are constant audits and check-ups of your website and in case it changes its focus, the domain can be revoked.
    - bcoates 13y ago
      Where do I complain about the false advertising going on over at http://time.travel/ http://time.travel/ ?
zbruhnke 13y ago
I met your co-founder last week at International Startup festival(we were both finalists for the grand prize) you guys are awesome! Keep up the good work!

trevorstarick 13y ago

And there goes the backend... We're fixing the problem should be back in a few min. Sorry about that! EDIT: Fixed!

wikiburner 13y ago
Did you really get HNed just from a link in your comment, or was the outage coincidental?
- trevorstarick 13y ago
  We don't have a dedicated server set up (We got one yesterday but its been having technical issues). Had to disable some features that were requiring too much. I honestly wasn't expecting this much traffic this quickly. I guessed wrong :P
- graeme 13y ago
  I had top comment on pg's most recent essay; I got an extra 1,500 visitors to a subreddit I mentioned in the comment. And my comment only rose to the top when the essay was quite far down the frontpage. The link in this post was top or near top at the time this essay was #1, so I imagine they got quite a few visitors quite fast.
lambtron 13y ago
.travel as a top level domain? Nice! How did you go about getting this may I ask?
- wikiburner 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.travel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.travel - I assumed it was one of the new "buy your own TLD" for $200k (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/icann-to-expand-top-level-domain-names-applications-start-jan-12-2012/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/icann-to-expand-top-level-d...), but apparently .travel has been around for 8 years.
- askovi 13y ago
  By applying to the .travel Registry Association as a registered business with it's main focus being traveling. Once they accept you, you can register a .travel domain from one of the registrars they provide. There are constant audits and check-ups of your website and in case it changes its focus, the domain can be revoked.
  - bcoates 13y ago
    Where do I complain about the false advertising going on over at http://time.travel/ http://time.travel/ ?

zbruhnke 13y ago

I met your co-founder last week at International Startup festival(we were both finalists for the grand prize) you guys are awesome! Keep up the good work!