Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderFascinating conversation. Thanks for giving insight into how these deals work... >ABNB reminds me of Etsy in that it facilitates real commerce in a marketplace model directly between two people. Interestingly enough, I still tend to side with Fred's assessment of AirBnB's future. All my experiences with it as a user have been too unreliable to expect that it can scale to truly massive usability. Selling your old guitar online is a lot different than renting a room to someone…
I'd love to see more of these genuine, high-level business conversations. It can be difficult to learn and understand what really goes on "at the top", because probably every top exec is under some pressure to appear superhuman.
I know it is slightly better than random, but just how good are investors - even the brilliant, famous ones like Fred Wilson - how much better than random are they?
Very interesting. Particularly the bit about 'there's no reason they can't be the eBay of location'
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 806
- Total comments
- 299
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-03-17 | Subject: AirbnbFirst breakout · Best thread | anateus | 614 | 134 |
| 2011-03-18 | Paul Graham on Fred Wilson's Airbnb post | kevin_morrill | 7 | 1 |
| 2011-06-04 | AirBnB and the quest for early VC investment | iqster | 7 | 0 |
| 2014-04-20 | Subject: AirBnB (2009) | mck- | 10 | 1 |
| 2018-09-17 | Subject: Airbnb (2011)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | tinderliker | 161 | 162 |
| 2021-08-28 | Subject: Airbnb (2011) | jnieminen | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-02-13 | Paul Graham on Airbnb Business | viswanathk | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-08-31 | PG tries to convince a VC to invest in Airbnb [2011] | s1mpl3 | 2 | 0 |