@benrbn Thanks man. Very excited to be solving the problem of last-minute stays. Our goal is very simple - we want more people to travel more frequently. We believe that if we can surface alternative accommodations faster, then we’re on our way there … If we can get someone who travels twice a year to travel four times a year, we’re doing something very special.

@asherhunt @benrbn "Our goal is very simple - we want more people to travel more frequently." I am 100% with you on that sentiment. We have the same long term mission with @gethorizonapp I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on host incentives, as well as traveler fallback options. Do hosts get a premium for being more accommodating last minute? What happens if a traveler arrives in a city expecting to be able to find a last minute host and can't? Hoteltonight? It seems many are going to be terrified of arriving in a new city and have even a slight risk of not being accommodated.

@asherhunt your product looks pretty awesome! Would complement ours pretty nicely ;) We're focused on spontaneous travel from a flights perspective!

@guygal I second this! Such a good idea to reverse this and not spend so much time as a traveler making booking requests, then potentially waiting 24 hours to hear back.

@tylerswartz We're really excited to introduce a new framework for thinking about hosting which doesn't require a calendar or calendar management. Also listings are private. When you get an incoming request you decide if you want to make your place available to that traveler after you vet them in the app.

@asherhunt @tylerswartz smart. Same way we thought about it too

@asherhunt that sounds like a good approach 😃. How long do you give each homeowner to respond, before the request is passed to the next one? Or, does it go to all of them and the first to respond gets it?

@tylerswartz Good question, multiple people can respond, and we do this so the traveler has a handful of options to choose from, while still diminishing the analysis paralysis of traditional booking options. That said, we do push requests to hosts who are available that day, within that radius. For example, within just a few minutes of requesting in LA you'll get a handful of responses to choose from. We're flood-gating right now as we've had a bit of attention today due to our launch but it also gives us a great opportunity to have great conversations with our would-be guests and welcome them to the community.

@hankleber Great question. We're in Los Angeles and launching Austin just ahead of SXSW! LA is our home base (very proud) and it's the perfect city for us to polish our flywheel. These are cities we're activating actively and @schabelman is killing it with community. That being said we have hosts who have self on-boarded their listings in 30+ cities across 12 countries and counting!

@shanemac Love it - you totally get it. The biggest thing here is communication. Human touch points. This is something that is in our DNA. Things are being done manually as often as possible and in an unscalable fashion at first but we're learning what to productize and where human touch points are most important. We're calling, texting, messaging, working very closely to cultivate a real community worldwide (starting in LA and now Austin) while scaling both supply and demand in lock step as often as possible. Sometimes demand overwhelms supply, and sometime some supply will sit idle or a day or so, but this is why we're launching city by city and this is the challenge we're absolutely focused on solving. We're currently flood-gating requests and calling everyone to welcome them to the community before pushing out their request, but most often our response times during normal hours in los angeles are about 45 seconds to first response.

@nnezhat amazing, I really can't wait to get your feedback and I'm very excited that you've listed. We've been thinking through this and how to really profile our hosts. We think human connection is important, and you don't get that feeling staring into an empty room. We're thinking of how we can change this and profiling our power hosts in such a way where it represents them as individuals.

@gillianim @hitlist_app @partywithalocal Hey thanks @dan_fennessy I think we're all on the same page and I think it's a really great think that we're ALL pushing for exploration, more spontaneity, more exposure to more places and more of a human connection. Really cool world we live in right now - I could not be more excited.

@gillianim @hitlist_app Awesome. Let me know next time you're in LA! I'm a big fan of your app, and have been since it came out. I spent like 40 minutes onboarding all the places i had been.

@pinguino hey you! I have a funny story to share about this. A lot of the sentiment behind why I believe spontaneous travel is so important was born when I was working with the ONZRA guys, and we took a trip to Amsterdam. That was my first time out of the country(mex/can aside), and it was on 8 hours notice. Nothing booked, nowhere to stay – I went across the world and everything was alright. Changed the way I think about everything. From travel to entrepreneurship. Being spontaneous is ok, and everything will work out.