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by soneca 4503 days ago
Hi Amiad! Congrats and good luck first of all!

I would like to know how do you feel creating a startup totally built upon another company's service? How do you deal with and mitigate the risk of it?

My own startup is completely based on Facebook's check-in feature, and this worries me a lot. I deal with knowing I am still under their radar, but it is the first thing I want to create a plan b to after I get some market validation.

I mean, don't you fear AriBnb pulls a twitter on you somehow? Do you plan to expand your services further than AirBnb?

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Hi and great question. First we don't limit ourselves in the long run to just one platform and our solution can work on all vacation rental platforms with not much to change. The reason we are holding back is that there is a big enough space for growth on Airbnb only at this tie and it's better to focus on the user experience than on expansion at this stage.

Secondly we believe in Airbnb and we only encourage more people to join their platform. To give some numbers - 30% of our users are new to Airbnb completely. So we feel Airbnb will have warm approach to Superhost rather than alienate us.

Do you see being independent of Airbnb as a value add in that even if they did "move up the stack" so to speak and copy you users would still prefer you as they are posting to multiple rental platforms?