AirBnB had a working system well before they had investments outside of self funding.

That's not really Nomad revenue though if it's all going to hosts. What are you taking in as the platform?

So you’re planning to cover expenses with investor funds — then switch on fees at series C after having built up user base that assumes the service is no fees?

Indeed, I didn't mean it as criticism! Rather an idea.

This is an interesting idea and I truly wish you the best of luck! Committing from the early stages of late night conception to sitting down and hammering out a demo is no small task.

Your premise reminded me of another startup I read about recently, washbnb. Probably just because it's adjacent to your concept, but it's nice to see continued expansion and iterations in the short-term rental market.

One thing I will add, the 'trips' page had a few additional trips planned for 1970's. Not sure what this indicates but thought you may like to know. Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/5s3ukOx.jpg

That's cool, I respect honest work. I'm sharing my thinking/feedback and apologies if that sounded ad hominem - it wasn't my intention at all. I hope you'll succeed in your endeavors whether it's Nomad Pass or something else.

I don't imagine they would be with a fairly high-risk idea like this.

Airbnb likely had a business plan on how to make money... and they might not have had any profits but they likely had some revenue as soon as they had listings back in '09.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbnb

They put together a website that offered short-term living quarters and breakfast for those who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market. The site Airbedandbreakfast.com officially launched on August 11, 2008. The founders had their first customers in the summer of 2008, during the Industrial Design Conference held by Industrial Designers Society of America, where travelers had a hard time finding lodging in the city.

After the founders raised $30,000 by selling cereal named after the two candidates of the 2008 United States presidential election, Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, computer programmer Paul Graham invited the founders to the January 2009 winter training session of his startup incubator, Y Combinator, which provided them with training and $20,000 in funding in exchange for a 6% interest in the company. With the website already built, they used the Y Combinator investment to fly to New York to meet users and promote the site. They returned to San Francisco with a profitable business model to present to West Coast investors. By March 2009, the site had 10,000 users and 2,500 listings.

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They had the website built and running well before Y Combinator saw them.

A few observations:

- pay for a domain name. Show an investor you're serious enough that you at least put in $10 of your own money

- when I click on a photo let me use left / right arrow keys to go to the next photo

- let me click on the header photo to start going through photos

- when you show me amenities also show me what amenities aren't included like AirBnB does. I always like how they show the crossed out dryer or whatever so I notice right away before renting something without a feature I need