"Community" is very much the wrong way to think about a group of users of something you hope to scale. If it has to work like a little village your social scalability will be not be much bigger than that.https://twitter.com/naval/status/959260771598438402 …
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Tell that to AirBnb.
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AirBnB, Uber, etc., all have had to go thru serious rethinks about the nature of their user base as it scaled, as they entered new cities and new cultures, etc. And AirBnB seems to have hit some severe limits on the kinds of hosts and kinds of guests it is suitable for.
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The huge differential are due to fundamental trust and knowledge issues between strangers that AirBnB has only extremely partially been able to overcome. Turns out the world of travelers is not one big happy community. It's a bunch of strangers. Price differentials remain.
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IIRC Airbnb broke through once they had the idea to pay pros to shoot listings. It wasn’t incentives, community models, etc. Incentives were clear: users got cheaper stays, more amenities. Owners made money. Impediment was mundane: owner photos made apartments look crappy.
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