peer-to-peer marketplace Archives

Create your own Airbnb with The Sharing Engine

June 14, 2012 by Terence LEE

SquareStays is a property rental site built with The Sharing Engine.

The Sharing Engine has all the trendy buzzwords: Social commerce, sharing economy, peer-to-peer rentals. Put them all together, and you have a compelling new startup.

Put it simply, The Sharing Engine is a white label online service that lets you create your own Airbnb for any product category. If you’re new to the technology scene, Airbnb is a online short-term rental marketplace that lets a tourist rent vacation homes from owners in other countries.

Since Airbnb became the latest poster boy of Silicon Valley, clones have popped up around the world. There’s probably an Airbnb for cars, yachts, and anything under the sun that isn’t in use 24 hours a day. Read more

Filed under Innovation & Technology, Technology, WebTags: Airbnb, Collaborative consumption, collaborative economy, heypal, Jeremy Snyder, peer-to-peer marketplace, sharing economy, Singapore, the sharing engine

Activity booking site EvenPanda combines Pinterest and Airbnb

May 21, 2012 by Terence LEE

What do you get when you combine two of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups and apply the concept to an entirely different vertical? You get EvenPanda.

Launching today, the Singapore-based site is an online activities marketplace that lets users sell experiences to customers. A sampling of activities include a Triathlon Starter Bootcamp, a tutorial on creative processes and design, and a Sunday brunch with Russian homemade pancakes. Read more

Filed under Innovation & Technology, Technology, WebTags: Airbnb, E27, Echelon, echelon 2012, evenpanda, experiences, peer-to-peer marketplace, pinterest, sharing economy, Singapore