#101 - An Airbnb host 5⭐️, the AI that develops unique applications and the latest NBA bomb
Greg Taieb · · 6 min read
Hello,
How are you this week? I'm fine, I received many incredible reactions to the 100th edition of this newsletter! Well, it's not as if I added 1 number to the title every week, the symbolic passage to 100 really made people aware of the performance.
It's a bit like when you pass ten in terms of age: for you it's one more day whereas from the outside, you cross a milestone.
- 🏠 When the founder of Airbnb invites you to him
- 👷♀️Tomorrow AI will help you create your own applications!
- 🏀 When the NBA gives me confidence in Augmented Reality
- 🤬 How Substack makes bad jokes to my subscribers
Have a good read!
🏠 When the founder of Airbnb invites you to his home
A few months ago I spoke to you about the boss of Uber which had itself delivered customers by bike. An excellent way to test your product and put yourself in the shoes of your delivery people.
In the same genre, I found what the founder of Airbnb Brian Chesky did even cooler. Last November he put his house up for rent on the famous platform.
So of course it wasn't the first time since Brian is the very first host of the platform but this time it's different...
In fact the CEO of Airbnb (which is worth several billions) prepared a 3-star welcome for Sheel Mohnot a smart guy who found a trick to nab LA availability.
Brian seems to have been the perfect host: help with carrying the luggage, evening meal, visit to the Airbnb offices. He also shared his vision for Airbnb and the problems it needs to resolve.
You can see the details of the stay by opening the tweet below 👇.
This past weekend, I stayed with a pretty special Airbnb Host. @bchesky, the first-ever host (& CEO), listed his house on Airbnb a couple of months ago and I was lucky enough to book a stay.
— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) February 7, 2023
It was an amazing weekend that far exceeded our expectations... pic.twitter.com/twNMViMGO2
In any case, it was truly a unique experience. And precisely, closer to us, if you also want a unique Airbnb experience there is a night at the Garnier opera to "win".
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👷♀️Tomorrow AI will help you create your own applications!
Since I launched this newsletter I've talked to you about dozens of No-Code tools, these applications that allow you to create other applications without a line of code.
We can cite for example Airtable, Notion (which we talked about at length here) or even Coda kg-embed-card"> Some examples are quite crazy: In short, Coda really shows us the future of productivity tools in my opinion. Tools where we will only have to ask the right questions to get the answers without going through the painful phase of entry and synthesis. I can't wait to see the tools that really work! I have to admit, even if I've seen tons of cool applications of augmented reality in recent years (restaurant menu), it is clear that it is often a little harder to project oneself into mass uses. Maybe things will evolve this year with the launch of the Apple headset but what is certain is that the NBA has just offered us a particularly stunning use case. Indeed the boss of the NBA (they talk about commissioning) Adam Silver has just presented the new NBA app and it is simply incredible. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App - and you can be in it! pic.twitter.com/FKYJvskf0H A simple 360 scan of a person and they are transposed into a real NBA match to play alongside the best players on the planet! I don't know if this is the future of streaming but it would be very nice to integrate this into future NBA 2K license games. Substack is the platform I use to send this newsletter and I must say that I like it I am rather very satisfied: Only in recent days I have experienced 2 disappointments reported by new subscribers which made me think quite a bit. A colleague who recently subscribed told me "I registered but I didn't pay"! I was surprised to the extent that I did not activate the monetization functions. My newsletter is free and this is not intended to change. But after verification we do indeed offer to pay to support my newsletter. It's cool but this option activated by default (and which I cannot deactivate) suggests that there are 2 levels of services and that I am asking for money which is not the case. Another more unfortunate disappointment I received an annoyed message from a new subscriber angry to see that he had been subscribed to a newsletter in addition to mine... without memory of having asked for it. It really surprised me and I approached Benjamin Perrin the editor of the newsletter in question who understood no more than me what had happened. After investigation I noticed that it was the fact that I was recommending Benjamin's newsletter via Substack which subscribed new subscribers "almost" without their consent via an optout system (option checked by default at the time of registration). That's exactly what happened with this subscriber, he hadn't checked any boxes and found himself subscribing to a newsletter. Not very GDPR friendly all that 🤨. I immediately deactivated the recommendation because it's absolutely not what I imagined in activating it. No hard feelings Benjamin 😇. That you and I do not have the same experience when we are on Substack and I regularly have to put myself in the shoes of a new subscriber to know their journey (which evolves as Substack develops new options) to ensure that YOUR first impression is the best possible. So I set myself a reminder to test the registration every 2 months to make sure that nothing has changed. And that's it for this week!🏀 When the NBA restores my confidence in Augmented Reality
🤬 How Substack makes bad jokes to my subscribers
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