It's a shame how large organizations always form a layer of "product owners" who fight amongst each other for ownership and control.
“Mortgage: late Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘dead pledge’, from mort (from Latin mortuus ‘dead’) + gage ‘pledge’”
"AirBnB has increased the median long term rent in New York City by 1.4% in the last three years, resulting in a $380 rent increase for the median New York tenant" [https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/attac...]
"When demand is inelastic, even relatively small changes in housing supply can cause significant changes in the cost of housing.10 This intuition is clearly validated in a number of careful empirical studies looking precisely at the effect of Airbnb introduction and expansion on housing costs." [https://www.epi.org/publication/the-economic-costs-and-benef...]
"At the median owner-occupancy rate zipcode, we find that a 1% increase in Airbnb listings leads to a 0.018% increase in rents and a 0.026% increase in house prices. Considering the median annual Airbnb growth in each zipcode, these results translate to an annual increase of $9 in monthly rent and $1,800 in house prices for the median zipcode in our data, which accounts for about one fifth of actual rent growth and about one seventh of actual price growth" [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3006832]
What's so wrong with houses and apartments being for locals and long-term stay, and tourists just staying in hotels?
Basic functions are not there, while the app already seems to be bloated.
I'm wondering if any of the product manager there ever used their product.
The hosting app is terribl. To the point that there's an ecosystem of apps for managing properties, and most of the functions are just basic features that either exist or should on the Airbnb app.
The app is so bad, that I can't trust it with showing me who arrives today in the summary page, instead I go to the calendar.
And yes, I feel like they should make their PMs or designers use the hosting side of the app.
If your designers are doing the latter two, that means they're not spending nearly enough time talking to customers
Please don't come at me with "but... requirements", good design requires you to understand your user. People are bad at articulating what they actually want and if your PM is not a designer (in a sense of comprehension and problem solving, not Figma proficiency) the "requirements" are going to be some uninspired platitudes.
What you refer to as "doing designs" is actually just pixel pushing, which has absolutely no place unless and until you figure out the functionality
They're critical !
The issue is, their salary and their "political position" in a company is a concern. How can that "boring" role compare to a Senior Developer, or a Designer overall ?
Someone still has to own the "why" and the "what" of the product you're building—if it's not the PM, then it is engineering manager or design leader taking on this role.
meh. lots of companies are wildly successful with crappy products built by 9-5 teams. or startups with founders that are embarrassed by v0.1 or even v1.0.
A post-scale consumer company should only ship something they are highly proud of.
Program, Project, or Product? which one?
The people who don’t love it are the neighbours and anyone in the market for long term rentals.
Hotels might not be great, but they're way less of a gamble.
It only takes a vacation being completely ruined once or twice before you swear of AirBNB completely.
In the meantime I had a condo next to the beach with a kitchen and beach toys in both locations for less than the hotel next door cost (which would not have a kitchen, meaning that I'd have to eat out every meal, which gets pricy with two kids).
But the chores are a bit much sometimes
Jeez how much are you socializing with the employees that you find it exhausting?
