February 2012
4 posts
Homes With Stories
Today me and Tom launched our first business idea, lean, mean and free. Homes With Stories - a simple travel blog - completely based around AirBnB. We curate the site (with over 600,000 rooms for rent) based on the simple insight that people now travel and live in people’s homes, not hotel rooms. We create stories around the homes, who owns them, where they are and what to do in the area.
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Looking at the product first
Tom and I met a few months ago, both talking about work and ideas, about projects we wanted to do and mistakes we’ve made. It all resulted in a spontaneous brainstorm about a business we could do together.
Tom had the idea that we should write things down that we are genuinely interested in. Almost like a middle school exercise - but with an incredible result. I realised instantly that I...
