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by latenightcoding 3957 days ago
"Airbnb for drone pilots" yeah that is not misleading at all
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I was half expecting "have random DJI Phantom owners come and sleep on your couch!"

Another part of wonders if they're attempting to demonstrate an "old school" attitude or a sense of age or history by using "AirBnB for … " instead of the current every-new-startup-tagline of "Uber for … "

(Now I'm thinking of pitching some fictitious random startup idea with the elevator pitch of "We're Pets.com for $dumb_thing!" and with all our API doc examples and sample code written in Perl4 or ColdFusion - to try and give the undeserved impression we've been around for 20 years, or at least since before the first dotcom bust...)