Airbnb vs COVID: The battle for community and connections!
Will COVID take down the community connections that Airbnb built over years? Or will Airbnb strengthen its community to defeat COVID and emerge stronger than ever?
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SWEAT – The Rise of Kayla Itsines’ Fitness Empire
The SWEAT App, created by fitness influencer Kayla Itsines, emerges a winner in the fitness industry’s digital revolution.
Stack Overflow – a Winner at a Turning Point
Stack Overflow has been running well for over a decade – but it may fall apart soon…
Sweat: How to win in the crowded space of digital fitness training
Sweat became the number one most downloaded fitness app in the world by using the power of digitalization and social media to create a loyal community and clearly winning in this highly fragmented market.
CookUnity – a New York food delivery start-up of home cooked meals prepared by a community of local Chefs.
A New York food delivery start-up of home cooked meals prepared by a community of local independent Chefs.
Julep: Going After Big Beauty With Crowdsourced Products
Julep is taping into the social nature of the beauty market to crowdsource new product design so consumers have the products they want to buy in a much faster timeline than traditional big beauty brands.
Waze: “Help[ing] people create local driving communities that work together to improve the quality of everyone’s daily driving”
The mission statement of Waze, founded in Israel in 2009, is to “help people create local driving communities that work together to improve the quality of everyone's daily driving”. By updating maps in real time with crowdsourced information from drivers, Waze provides its users with “the best route, every day, with real-time help from other drivers”.
Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia
With over 40M articles and 15 billion page views, Wikipedia is the fifth-most popular website in the world. With an editorial community of 75,000, Wikipedia has maintained a hierarchical structure to ensure the quality of content. Managed by a non-profit organization and providing content to its readers for free, how is Wikipedia sustaining itself?
Quora – Capturing the World’s Knowledge
About Quora Quora is a question and answer site, where anyone can sign up for an account and start posting questions or responding to questions posted on the site. The company’s mission is to “share and grow the world’s knowledge.” It […]
Finding the Next Unicorn with Product Hunt
Product Hunt is an upvote-based site, similar to Reddit, where community members submit and vote for their favorite new or unknown products, primarily focused on the tech app space. The list is recreated each day, generating a live-stream of the most […]