alt Hacker NewsIt might change once the companies switch away from lighting VC money on fire mode and switch to profit maximizing mode.
I remember Uber and AirBnB used to seem like unbelievably good deals, for example. That stopped eventually.
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jeremyjh • 08/08/2025
This I could see.
AirBNB is so good that it's half the size of Booking.com these days.
And Uber is still big but about 30% of the time in places I go to, in Europe, it's just another website/app to call local taxis from (medallion and all). And I'm fairly sure locals generally just use the website/app of the local company, directly, and Uber is just a frontend for foreigners unfamiliar with that.