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Airbnb Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to rent their homes or apartments via a service similar to Airbnb.

697

5 years ago

The first YC-backed startup to reach unicorn status was Airbnb, in 2009. Airbnb was followed by Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Instacart, and Wayfair.

293

3 years ago

A startup for people who want to rent out their living room, garage or basement space to Airbnb/VRBO/HomeAway-like home-sharing services in cities across the US.

264

4 years ago

A platform for homes where homeowners can share tools and services, and get paid for doing so, similar to AirBnB.

262

4 years ago

A platform that allows users to store and manage their tiny home remotely. It’s like Airbnb for tiny homes.

240

2 years ago

An online marketplace that matches consumers with home sellers. The startup is looking to take the model of Airbnb, and allow people to list their homes for sale, or rent them out.

239

5 years ago

A startup that provides cleaning and maintenance for Airbnb properties

238

3 years ago

AirBnb is launching in India, but more importantly, the startup is looking to grow its presence in other parts of Asia and even the Middle East.

227

4 years ago

Y Combinator has funded a wide variety of companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit.

215

4 years ago

As of 2018, YC has graduated over 2,000 companies, including some of the most well-known startups in the world, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and Lyft.

211

4 years ago

A Russian startup working on a decentralized version of Airbnb. The company gets paid for hosting travelers and then pays them in Dash.

204

4 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for people to create their own videos, with the goal of helping them share their stories with the world. The platform can be integrated into other services or used standalone, and has a number of corporate customers including the likes of Airbnb.

183

3 years ago

A company that helps companies with “employee engagement”. The idea is that by using its “engagement platform”, companies can find more engaged employees and more engaged customers, and it’s been used by companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and LinkedIn.

176

5 years ago

A startup that allows people to rent their homes to Airbnb hosts on a per-night basis, charging a fee to those hosts.

175

5 years ago

This startup is looking to bring Airbnb-style home sharing to the US.

172

4 years ago

This authentication app is made for Airbnb and other service providers. It lets you use your phone to make a secure token to authenticate yourself to an app.

169

3 years ago

A startup bringing a piece of the hotel-management world to the Airbnb world.

169

4 years ago

A meeting scheduling platform in the vein of Doodle. The startup is another one that’s building its service (and product) in the U.S. It’s already sold over $15 million worth of its services to companies like Airbnb, Airbnb, and Google.

168

5 years ago

A company that builds the “Airbnb for internships”, connecting students with companies looking for summer interns. It’s a platform that allows both internships to be created and offers a marketplace for applications.

167

5 years ago

A startup that is building an alternative repository to Airbnb for people to find rentable resources This includes everything from homes to lawn mowers, from the startup’s own website

165

5 years ago

Similar to Airbnb, this company aims to connect homeowners with travelers looking for places to stay.

165

5 years ago

A travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.

164

5 years ago

A way for people to rent out their spare bedrooms and living rooms on Airbnb, or even to create an entire home on the platform.

160

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service to help people with their immigration paperwork (basically lawyer) A startup that provides an alternative to Airbnb for people to rent out their homes (which they are not living in)

155

5 years ago

A software company for building apps with Facebook Messenger. The startup has built apps for the likes of Unilever and Airbnb. It’s a platform for chat bots, and allows companies to build chat bots in minutes.

155

5 years ago

A startup that brings the power of an “off-the-shelf” product like Uber or Airbnb to the small business owner. It makes the process of hosting, booking, and paying for a service as easy as booking a flight or an Uber.

155

4 years ago

A software company that helps companies build new websites quickly and easily. It has helped companies like Kiva, IBM, and Airbnb build websites.

155

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can rent a house on Airbnb and they’ll come clean it with their own cleaning crew before the next tenant arrives

152

5 years ago

A startup that helps you find the perfect Airbnb for your needs

151

5 years ago

There’s a lot of startups out there that are building tools to make our lives better, like TaskRabbit and Airbnb. But not so many that are building tools to make our lives worse.

151

5 years ago

A take on the “room-sharing” model of Airbnb, Mio is a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting guests and hosts.

150

5 years ago

"Idea 2.0 is a tool for entrepreneurs to help them learn about new technologies in the market and network together. It’s the Uber of technology conferences. The conference is in its second year and has had over 1,000 attendees and 300+ speakers from 45 countries. The conference’s format is based on the model of Airbnb, where the host gets to pick the guests. The guest list is highly curated and the speakers are handpicked by the company’s CEO. The conference has been very well received by attendees and has been named a Top 10 conference in the US in 2018.

147

4 years ago

A startup that helps users book Airbnb-style rentals, which is still a very new industry in the U.S.

146

5 years ago

An on-demand marketplace for your home, pitched as a more effective, more satisfying alternative to Airbnb.

145

5 years ago

A startup that offers a platform for digital nomads to rent out their homes in a peer-to-peer fashion. It’s in the early stages of development, but the founders say it will be “like Airbnb, but also a concierge service and protocol for renting out your home when you’re away”.

144

5 years ago

This startup is a real estate marketplace for owners to rent out their properties for short-term stays, like Airbnb. They have over 25,000 properties on their platform.

144

5 years ago

A startup that allows you to create an “Airbnb for Food”, allowing you to find and discover local restaurants that also allow you to book tables in advance. The company says it has already helped to book a hundred tables in New York City.

140

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a mobile app that lets you rent out your spare room on Airbnb.

139

5 years ago

A platform for small business owners to rent their property out. The company is a joint venture between a local business incubator and the co-founder of Airbnb.

138

4 years ago

A platform that helps people make money by sharing their home with Airbnb guests.

135

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for renting servers, using a model similar to Airbnb Users can rent a server by the hour, day, week, or month They rent out their unused servers, which helps keep them up to date, and clients get cheap hosting

134

5 years ago

A tool for booking rooms, like Airbnb but for short stay hotels.

134

5 years ago

A legal analytics startup that wants to help companies like Airbnb and Uber navigate regulations. The startup wants to provide data that would be required for an uber-like app to operate in a country.

131

3 years ago

A startup that lets users more easily access Airbnb-style rooms in their own home, without having to go through vacation rentals.

129

5 years ago

A company that wants to help people find a way to use a home like a hotel. People can rent out their home for a day, two weeks, or longer, with Airbnb-like booking options.

126

5 years ago

A platform that helps local governments make decisions about vacant properties. It's similar to other services like Airbnb, but for rentals.

126

5 years ago

A startup known as “The Human Body on Demand”, which aims to be the Airbnb of medical testing. The company is currently testing a system which allows you to get a blood test on-demand, with the possibility of charging for the service.

125

5 years ago

A “co-living” startup focused on the business side of student housing and aiming to become the Airbnb of college housing

125

3 years ago

A tool for getting your hotel room on Airbnb or other vacation rental sites.

125

5 years ago

Jeeves is a service that lets people reserve rooms on Airbnb, post photos, and chat with hosts. It’s currently running in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has plans to expand to New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

124

5 years ago

A company that’s building a mobile app to allow travelers to search for hotels and airbnb listings in cities they’re visiting.

124

5 years ago

Ideas is organized by YC staff and features the companies that have been accepted into the program. Past speakers include the founders of Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.

123

5 years ago

A startup that lets guests book rooms and restaurants directly on Airbnb, without having to go through the service’s own reservations system.

123

4 years ago

A startup that advertises itself as “the Airbnb of villages.” The company is building a marketplace for rural villages in India, where villagers can rent out their rooms for short-term stays.

123

5 years ago

The startup is building a traveler marketplace for South American cities. It’s a place where travelers can find roommates, book flights, and even share their rooms on AirBNB-like websites.

122

5 years ago

A startup for people who are hosts on Airbnb. The startup is looking to make it easier to manage multiple properties

121

5 years ago

A tool for the hospitality industry to manage attendee profiles. One of the founders previously worked at Airbnb.

117

5 years ago

A tool that builds customizable online guides for listing services like Airbnb and Etsy.

113

4 years ago

A startup that helps people share their homes with others, acting as a kind of Airbnb for people to rent out their spaces.

111

5 years ago

A new kind of Airbnb for flower deliveries. The company hopes to have 10,000 commercial partners by the end of the year.

110

3 years ago

A real estate company for the Airbnb-hostile city of Amsterdam.

109

5 years ago

A real estate technology platform that is a hybrid of Homejoy and Airbnb, letting landlords rent out their properties on the platform.

108

5 years ago

The company is building a toolset for building and selling items on Airbnb. The company is already working with a few startups in Silicon Valley, and says they’ve raised $1.2M but aren’t disclosing their valuation or amount raised.

105

4 years ago

This startup wants to be the Airbnb of after-hours travel for dentists. Dentists can use the service to help students and interns for practice trips, and offer their own services to travelers looking for a dentist while on vacation.

104

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool for people who want to start their own Airbnb-like site to rent out their rooms. They’re targeting “micro-hosts” who want to supplement their income by renting out a spare room, kitchen, or patio space.

99

4 years ago

Settle.me is a video hosting platform for Airbnb hosts, helping them tell and share their stories.

95

4 years ago

A startup that aims to be a kind of Airbnb for salespeople, connecting salespeople to sales leads and helping them find new clients.

94

4 years ago

A tool for local SEO, which helps marketplaces like Etsy, Airbnb, and Shopify promote their products on the local level.

92

4 years ago

A platform that aims to capitalize on the power of the “frictionless” commerce that comes from services like Uber and Airbnb. The platform will allow consumers to use apps to order groceries, ride-sharing, or take-out, and the company will cover the cost of delivery.

90

3 years ago

The startup is building a mobile app for hiring and managing staff on the go — and customers include Bumble and Airbnb.

90

4 years ago

A tool that makes it easy for businesses to manage customer on-boarding and user experience. The product has been used by more than 300 companies, including Mozilla, Airbnb, and Groupon.

89

4 years ago

This startup wants to be the Airbnb of the hotel industry. Its mission: to make corporate events a lot more social.

89

2 years ago

Poncho is a platform meant to make it easier for property owners to rent out their extra space. It’s a bit like Airbnb, but for landlords.

88

4 years ago

A startup that wants to be the Airbnb of bike rentals, connecting bike shops with bike rental companies, and helping people find the best bike for their needs.

87

4 years ago

A startup that wants to be the Airbnb of car rental with an app that matches drivers to riders with specific car requirements. The business gives drivers a way to earn extra income without having to own a car.

85

4 years ago

A startup that aims to make the process of selling on Airbnb easier, with a new product that automates tasks like collecting payments.

84

4 years ago

A platform that connects young entrepreneurs with mentors and customers. The startup works with businesses in the creative sector, and has worked with other startups including Airbnb and Coinbase.

84

4 years ago

A startup that wants to automatically match people with the best Airbnb rentals for them.

83

4 years ago

Co-founders said they were inspired by the success of Airbnb but found themselves frustrated by the startup’s inability to deliver on its promises. Rival hotel booking site Hotels.com filed for an IPO in April 2016.

82

4 years ago

A startup that lets people earn money by helping their friends book trips. At present, the company has partnered with Airbnb and Kayak to help people book their own trips.

81

3 years ago

This startup is building a marketplace for people to sell their data. They say that their product is already in use by companies like Airbnb and Airbnb is already getting some value from the product.

81

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a building management system to help buildings adapt to sharing economy demand. It monitors energy usage and billing, to help buildings adapt to the Airbnb-style short-term rental.

80

4 years ago

A company that aims to be the Uber of Airbnbs by connecting people with shared interest and letting them share their dwelling with others who want to stay or need a place to stay.

80

4 years ago

A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.

80

3 years ago

The company wants to be the Airbnb of Brooklyn, where you can rent out your bedroom or your couch while you’re traveling.

79

4 years ago

An online check-in and messaging system for travelers, like Airbnb.

77

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a hybrid of Uber and Airbnb, a peer-to-peer hotel booking platform. The startup is building a mobile app that allows users to find, book and manage private rooms, in addition to a marketplace for services.

77

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring the Airbnb business model to the stay-at-home domestic help market

77

3 years ago

A platform for playing games on the web by using a webcam to see the player’s face. The startup wants to be the Airbnb for games.

77

3 years ago

A startup that allows users to rent out their cars, bikes, and boats and earn money in the process. In the US, there are a million people who use Airbnb-like services to rent out their homes each month.

77

4 years ago

A platform for renting and selling goods on Airbnb, with tools to help hosts manage their listings and reduce costs.

74

4 years ago

Certainly not a startup, but a company that builds tools to help big companies like Spotify, AirBnB, and Netflix build better web products

74

4 years ago

A company that makes a looping video meant to be watched from the user’s couch. They’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors including Airbnb and Airbnb co-founder, Brian Chesky.

72

4 years ago

A company that allows people to rent out their homes, providing revenue to homeowners and also serving as a revenue stream for Airbnb-like hosts.

72

3 years ago

A startup that provides loans to people in high-paying jobs through platforms, such as Airbnb.

71

4 years ago

This company is building a platform that connects real estate agents with short-term rentals, making it easier for agents to make money. The startup's founders are both previous Airbnb employees.

70

4 years ago

A loyalty app which gives users points towards services they want through surveys, and then rewards them with discounts at other services. The startup, which has been around for over a year, is working with over 100 brands, including Airbnb, Amazon, and Lyft.

70

3 years ago

A bunch of people want to build a better Airbnb. Airy is building an open-sourced platform that helps travelers find and book places to stay on the platform, making it easier and quicker to book a place to stay.

70

3 years ago

A payment and lending platform for the sharing economy, including Airbnb and Uber. It allows people to borrow money and pay for things like ridesharing and home sharing, with some flexibility over the conditions of the loan.

69

3 years ago

A tool to create and manage your own custom version of Airbnb.

69

4 years ago

A startup similar to Airbnb but for hosting companies

68

4 years ago

This startup aims to become the Airbnb for Healthcare. The company wants to help patients manage their healthcare costs and make healthcare more affordable by allowing people to share their medical expenses with other patients.

67

3 years ago

Another application for the “copy on demand” model proposed by the likes of Airbnb and Uber.

67

2 years ago

This is an app that helps people navigate their flights. It’s being used by the likes of Uber and AirBNB to route users to the right airports, showing them departure times and flight numbers.

67

4 years ago

A platform that lets customers easily book appointments with a service provider. The startup’s clients include Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Seamless.

66

3 years ago

Building an app that allows users to rent out their homes on Airbnb (or other portal) while earning extra money on the side, with the extra money going towards their mortgage.

66

4 years ago

A recent engineering graduate who landed his first job at Airbnb after dropping out of college. He’s building a startup that helps homeowners manage the process of selling their homes after leaving their landlords. Clients work with Clew to clean out their homes, give professional photos, publish their listing online, and receive bids.

63

3 years ago

A mobile app that helps hoteliers list their rooms directly on Airbnb.com without the need to host their own website.

63

3 years ago

This startup is building an “airbnb for student housing”, allowing students to rent out their apartments to other students.

63

4 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses get into marketplaces like Airbnb and Airbnb for Business. The startup says it has already signed up over 100 companies.

61

3 years ago

A company that makes a mobile app specifically for mobile-first companies like Airbnb and Uber.

61

4 years ago

A tool that allows people to connect their Airbnb reservations to their Uber ride.

60

3 years ago

A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.

60

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find affordable housing and makes money by charging rent (like airbnb does)

59

3 years ago

A chatbot for finding, booking and paying for an Airbnb stay. The startup developed a chatbot that can do all of that.

58

3 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their own data by bringing together a range of disparate sources, like Facebook, Twitter, and Fitbit. It’s working with companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Spotify, and Square.

57

3 years ago

A startup that wants to build a marketplace for travel companies to compete against the likes of Airbnb and vacation rental sites like VRBO.

57

3 years ago

This “Airbnb for Doctors” is letting people rent out their homes and apartments for temporary medical offices.

56

3 years ago

The startup will bring Airbnb-style rentals to the B2B, letting landlords advertise and manage properties all through a centralized site.

56

3 years ago

The idea is to be the Airbnb for airships and to make it easier for people to book and manage them.

56

3 years ago

A startup that’s essentially Airbnb for VR. They allow users to host virtual tours of their homes and events in VR.

55

3 years ago

A version of Airbnb for restaurants. The startup offers a way for restaurants to set up a listing and accept reservations, and to group reservations into a calendar of events to manage.

54

3 years ago

In an effort to better understand the impact of its product, Yext is conducting real-time behavioral tracking tests of its software and the effects of it being installed on the web. Yext already has a number of users and revenue from companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, and Yelp.

53

2 years ago

A tool for companies that want to compete with Airbnb on short-term rentals, where a renter is given a room to rent, and can be charged a nightly fee for the stay.

53

3 years ago

A startup provider for short-term rentals. The startup is taking a page out of the AirBnB playbook to provide a service for renting out unused space to travelers.

52

2 years ago

This is a startup that makes it easier for clients to make plans for buying and selling real estate on Airbnb.

52

3 years ago

A new app from Airbnb that allows users to find and rent out apartments from other Airbnb hosts. The idea is that users can make money sharing their space with others.

51

3 years ago

A way to manage your Airbnb listing from your phone

50

3 years ago

The company is building a free and open-source software that allows anyone to create their own decentralized marketplaces. They hope to help fix some of the problems that have plagued other decentralized marketplaces like AirBnB, the most well-known Dapp.

49

2 years ago

A company that manages and manages the data of big data projects, with clients including Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, Facebook, Google, and the US government. It’s working on getting a similar deal with the US Postal Service.

49

3 years ago

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

46

3 years ago

This startup is working on a social network for group-living. It’s similar to AirBnB for housing, with a focus on making it easy for families to share living space.

46

2 years ago

Building a decentralized version of Airbnb for shared apartments

43

2 years ago

This startup takes a page from the Airbnb playbook, allowing people to rent out their extra space in their homes as an option to earn money, as well as living space. It’s currently dealing with issues regarding the legality of this model in the UK.

41

2 years ago

A startup that aims to be the Airbnb of dog walking. DogVacay is a marketplace that matches walkers and dog owners.

41

2 years ago

An extension to the existing Airbnb mobile app to allow users to quickly book a room, making the booking process faster and easier.

41

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can book a room to stay in for a night like AirBnb but instead of an entire house it’s just a room

40

3 years ago

A startup that helps customers rent out their places on Airbnb. The startup has already partnered with 50 properties in New York and San Francisco, and is looking to expand in other markets as well.

40

3 years ago

This is a startup that wants to help hotel guests and Airbnb hosts with a workaround for Airbnb’s cancellation policy. When a contract is canceled, Airbnb transfers the money to the guest, but the guest doesn’t have the contractual right to it.

40

2 years ago

A platform for people to rent their homes via Airbnb, allowing owners to earn extra income. The founders say that their platform is the only one of its kind in the US, and that the site has already facilitated over $1 million in rental revenue.

40

2 years ago

A luxury travel company, which is looking to expand its international business. The startup is seeking to become the “Airbnb of the hotel industry” and currently has operations in Canada, the US and Australia.

39

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to manage and share expenses between friends and families in the same way that Airbnb allows people to rent out their homes directly to each other.

36

2 years ago

A meeting booking app for private events like birthday parties, weddings, and other events. The startup wants to become the “Airbnb for events” or the “Yelp for events”.

36

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to build communities, which they describe as platforms that act as a hub where users can share content and other people can discover and engage with it. Built on the same infrastructure as Airbnb, they can connect to other platforms like Zazzle, Vimeo and Etsy.

33

2 years ago

A directory of which Airbnb hosts will pick you up, drop you off, and accept your dog

33

2 years ago

Napptics is building a digital concierge that helps people book events and travel experiences for their friends, much like AirBNB.

32

2 years ago

A startup for booking business travel that’s more customer-friendly than AirBnB or Expedia. The startup is currently in talks with media companies.

31

2 years ago

This startup wants to make it easy to find deals on everything from Airbnb to discount coupons. The app looks for discounts from different companies and incorporates them into a single product.

29

2 years ago

A startup that connects hotels and Airbnb-style hoteliers who want to rent their homes to visitors

28

2 years ago

Instead of building a home, the founders say, this company lets people rent out their homes and instead make a profit on the hosting fee. It’s similar to Airbnb for personal use.

27

2 years ago

A startup for selling houses that’s based on a platform for renting the houses, called Rentalia. The founders say it’s like Airbnb, but for houses.

25

2 years ago

A company that helps companies plan and pay for corporate retreats. The app provides a point-to-point marketplace where companies can find hotels, restaurants, and attractions that will be relevant to their employees. Just as AirBnb helps travelers find cheap and cool places to stay, Corporate Retreat helps companies find cool places to stay.

24

2 years ago

A machine learning app that helps you see pictures of possible locations for your house. The startup wants to be the Airbnb of real estate.

23

2 years ago

As an AirBnB-style platform for finding and booking rooms, the startup wants to make it easy to find a place to crash.

23

2 years ago

Flippa, a startup that helps sellers list and promote their items on the site, is one of the top 10 most popular sites on Airbnb. Flippa is one of a handful of startups built on the idea that on-demand goods should be just as easy to sell as on-demand services. Flippa’s sales are in the hundreds of millions.

19

2 years ago

A tool to help developers get their apps into the AppStore and Google Play. The product’s first version is a library of “app-like” functions, like ordering a pizza or sending an email. The business is based on Bootstrap, which is used by companies like Airbnb and Medium.

16

2 years ago

You can now book your flights for free with the new “Airbnb for air travel,” Fliggy. The company is free to sign up, offers features like free upgrades and free baggage, and is also available on iPhone and Android.

14

2 years ago

A startup that aims to be the AirBnB for homes. The company says it’s already in talks with several companies, including a major hotel chain.

14

2 years ago

A platform that lets you book a room in a hotel, Airbnb, or other property, and get a discount for using that property’s own travel rewards program.

12

2 years ago

An HR tool that helps companies create and easily manage performance reviews for employees. The company says the software is the first of its kind, and has already used the software to help companies like Airbnb, Facebook, and Uber do their performance reviews.

9

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to be the “Airbnb of cars”. It’s an inventory management app that helps car rental agencies manage their fleet.

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