Mark O'Sullivan 🌎

Merry Christmas 🎄

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful day wherever you are in the world and whatever you are doing today ❤️

I would love it if more projects like this were readily available for the entire world to help with bigger purchase decisions

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Someone on Reddit investigated the 1 year depreciation for many popular 2024 car models by gathering used car prices

I love seeing when someone has put time and effort into gathering data and presenting it in such a useful way for the benefit of others

Something is happening in LatAm 👀

That's ANOTHER Colombian Digital Nomad Visa approved using Genki

If you're applying for a Digital Nomad Visa in Colombia you can use Genki as your health insurance provider

I used them and got my Colombian Digital Nomad Visa approved

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Have you signed up to Caza de Casa?

Check your emails because another 9 invitations have been sent out

That's a neat addition

No more adding workarounds

PostHog

Sonder is shutting down

It's never nice to see alternatives to Airbnb close down

The industry needs MORE competition not less

It allows us to expand to so many parts of South America without the need to add another language

The bubble is going to burst in 2027 or 2028

The investers and owners want to cash out now before it happens

That would be a 5 year cycle which most other tech bubbles

Próximamente 🇪🇸

This next update for Caza de Casa is going to be HUGE

Some of our hosts who joined our waitlist only speak Spanish and so couldn't advertise their properties

NOT ANYMORE

#BuildInPublic

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Has Airbnb reached its peak? Brian Chesky, its boss, wants to offer more than just a bed to sleep on

Here's the full article by The Economist

In October 2025 Airbnb introduced a social feature that "allow users who meet through an Airbnb experience to stay in touch"

Is this a sign of things to come? Will we see Airbnb move to become more of a social network in the future?

The expansion into offering hotel stays suggests Airbnb is becoming more and more like Booking.

Booking offer a loyalty program (Genius) to help retain customers.

Is it only a matter of time before Airbnb offer something similar?

Charging a lot more than your competitors will only alienate existing users.

"paid $44 for a one-hour exercise class on Airbnb, only to find that the woman huffing and puffing beside her paid less than half that on Classpass, a booking site for workouts"

Airbnb still have work to do when it comes to these additional offerings.

"Viator, one competitor, offers ten times as many experiences in big cities such as London and New York."

What's the difference between Airbnb Experiences and Airbnb Services?

Experiences: Outside your Airbnb (e.g. tour guide)

Services: Inside your Airbnb (e.g. private chef)

Airbnb Services was launched in May 2025.

This is not the first time Airbnb entered a new market and expanded beyond vacation rentals.

Airbnb Experiences launched November 2016 to take on Viator, GetYourGuide and TripAdvisor who offer similar activities and experiences.

To combat this Airbnb has boosted bookings outside of their core markets (Brazil / India) by offering new payment options and increasing marketing efforts.

The core markets (USA, Australia, Britain, Canada & France) represents 50% of nights booked through the platform according to AirDNA.

The percentage change year on year in nights booked has been falling in these countries.

How is Airbnb reacted to the growth slowdown?

- Growing bookings in new countries (Brazil, India)
- Entering new markets (services)
- Expanding offerings (hotels)
- Testing the water with new ideas (social features)

What has caused the decrease in the rate of growth?

- Uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump putting off tourists coming to the USA
- Policy makers banning Airbnb or implementing heavy restrictions
- Competition from other platforms (Booking, Expedia)

"$86bn-worth of bookings made through the platform in the 12 months to June".

A 10% increase vs the previous year.

However the rate of growth has been decreasing and analysts predict more signs of slowdown in the Q3 2025 earnings report due on Nov 6.

A couple days ago The Economist published an article leading with this question:

"Has Airbnb reached its peak?"

A thread 🧵

TikTok is trolling me

Well that's a first