How to Make an App Like Airbnb?
One of the most influential apartment-providing services worldwide and travel app at the same time, it took more or less 9 years for the founders of Airbnb to generate sustainable revenue out of their product. In this article we will go all the way through the making of an app like Airbnb, getting rid of potential losses and calculating the future costs.
A Home-Away-From-Home Idea.
There is no need to educate you about the purpose of the service created within a pure coincidence, a bit of luck and a genuinely creative idea. Speaking of which, it all started back in 2007, when two future Airbnb’s founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had simply no money to pay their accommodation fee; so the solution they came up with at the time was to rent a mattress in their room using a B&B scheme, with an initial goal “just to earn a few bucks”.
