ianmchenry

How do you use the meta data associated with the images to power better recommendations?

super interesting. love it.

Beyond Pricing is software to help hosts adjust prices based on supply and demand: http://www.beyondpricing.com

Would love to get feedback from anyone in Portland!

I'm interested to hear how much more people in SoMa were able to charge during Oracle Open World.

Beyond Pricing - San Francisco, CA - Full-Stack Developer (https://beyondpricing.com/)

Beyond Pricing is seeking our second full-stack developer to help bring dynamic pricing to the $85B vacation rental market (think Airbnb and HomeAway). As our second engineer, you'll have a huge influence on the product.

Email [email protected] if you're interested.

========== About Us ==========

Beyond Pricing is bringing dynamic pricing to Airbnb, VRBO, and the $85B vacation rental market.

We leverage massive datasets including hotel prices, local occupancy rates, airline data, and more to power a predictive and reactive pricing model that updates prices for each of our customers, daily.

We are already pricing over 6% of San Francisco Airbnbs in the two weeks since our public launch, and see between 15-40% increases in revenue for our customers. We have 1000s of customers in over 100 major global cities waiting for us to launch in their city. That's why we need you.

We are a seasoned team, all with prior experience as founders or early employees at YC companies and with strong backgrounds in revenue management for hotels and airlines. We have a great set of seed investors who have invested early in companies like Uber, Hipmunk, Optimizely, and Homejoy.

========== About You ==========

Ideally you will have worked on the full stack of a web product before, but we’re open to talented or senior front / back-end specific engineers. You’ll be joining a small team - currently one full time and two part time engineers - so you’ll have a big influence over our product going forward. Our stack is Python / Django on the back end, coffeescript / sass / ember on the front end.

======= SKILLS =======

Experience in any of the following is preferred but not required:

python coffeescript sass / css ember machine learning statistical modeling

======= CULTURE =======

We are team of YC vets who understand that people come first, product comes second, and the rest should follow.

While you will probably love coming into our office (two floors, two kegs, chess boards & foosball), people are free to work from anywhere.

Outside of work, we are comprised of marathon runners, bikers, wine makers, chess players, and artists.

======== BENEFITS ========

All employees have full health benefits, include dental and vision.

We'd love for you to join us!

- David, Andrew, Ian and the rest of the Beyond Team

You're absolutely right. We see this all the time, partly because owners don't know what a reasonable occupancy rate is and how they compare to other listings, partly because people have an attachment to their place and overvalue it, and partly because they are only willing to deal with the work of welcoming a guest for a certain price.

We'll soon be cross-platform.

You mean like this? https://www.vacationfutures.com/

Hi Adam! Yes, we are rolling out city-by-city in order of number of listings. Mountain View has around 400 active listings, so we should be there in the next month or so! We use a ton of data to derive our prices, rather than creating a generic pricing algorithm without data, so it's just a matter of getting that together and testing in each market.

So sorry about that! Somehow it was hidden in the latest push - that's important to know. It will always be free for the first 2 months to prove it works. It's also free during beta. After that, we'll set a monthly price per property that is incredibly, no-brainer reasonable. And we'll always let you cancel at anytime.

Beyond Pricing is free during beta, and then we will charge a reasonable monthly rate per property, similar to other SaaS solutions for vacation rentals. The channels like Airbnb actually love it because it helps maximize revenue across the system, making the pie from which they take a 10% commission on larger.

Hipmunk does this with Airbnb listings: http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels-search