Mark O'Sullivan

Building a Airbnb alternative called Caza de Casa

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"I'm tired waiting for someone to do an alternative to Airbnb, I'm just going to start working on this right now"

Listen to why I decided to start Caza de Casa and much much more in this conversation I had with @jcrpntr on the @futuresignalxyz podcast

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If you didn't curate then there'd be a lot more slop and that would be less appealing to founders to launch there because people wouldn't be checking it as much

Part of the reason why I launched Caza de Casa on Uneed is that I know you take time to curate all the products on there

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@igorhansachat I missed this launch!

If I had seen this yesterday I would have voted

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@jacksdiningroom If you have to have sauce with the steak then it's not a good steak

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Frequently I'd see these birds fly in a group past my balcony in Medellín

[Medellín Unmapped 🇨🇴 @MDE_Unmapped]

🦜Macaws in Medellín

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@spydon @supabase Congrats!

Would love to hear what's the plans for the SDK in the future, are you able to disclose any of them?

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@JespernissenSEO Have you seen this AI instructions working for other sites?

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@flvcovlquimistv Laureles is the most expensive area in Medellín apart from El Poblado

I'm frequently seeing 1 or 2 bedrooms advertised at $1,500 a month in Laureles

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@ASalvadorini Definitely a good attitude

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@kamranbekirovyz Do you have a video of it in action?

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Key part for those slaving away never taking a break 👇

"for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output."

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

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The Uneed launch day concluded and Caza de Casa finished #5

Why launch on Uneed?

By submitting your product on Uneed earns you a dofollow backlink from a high domain authority site which helps improve your search engine ranking

This should help Caza de Casa appear in more search & AI results

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🇪🇸 La Plaza de España (Sevilla)

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@crablungs @DGear86 I hope FM27 is closer to this

A few issues I can spot like random question button but design wise it's a good use of space

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Caza de Casa is launching today on Uneed

I know it's still early in the day but it was really cool to see Caza de Casa in third place

If you could find 2 minutes to give Caza de Casa an upvote today it'd be really appreciated 🫶

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42 upvotes and it's got 3 reviews (!) so far today on Uneed

Thanks to everyone who's voted so far and hopefully Caza de Casa can get a few more before the day is finished

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@Liathetrader More than half of my followers are no longer active

I wonder if that's impacting my reach on here?

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@ThatBudgetLad Thanks for the recommendation!

I also heard BlahBlahCar is cheaper than Uber

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I used Bolt for the second time yesterday in Sevilla

This driver notified me that he had arrived but I could seen in the map he was a bit away and still stuck in traffic

By the time he arrived the waiting time limit had expired and I ended up paying extra

I'm surprised it was possible for the driver to do this and Bolt don't lock the option for them to say they've arrived unless the driver is completely stationary and they are at the pick up location

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@brymstudio @cazadecasaxyz Would love to hear it

I'll send you a DM now

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Caza de Casa is launching today on Uneed

I know it's still early in the day but it was really cool to see Caza de Casa in third place

If you could find 2 minutes to give Caza de Casa an upvote today it'd be really appreciated 🫶