@Bencera@antinertia@polsia Yep, I get it. I anyway admire how you packaged a modern sales outbound agency into this marketing stunt, and nobody is calling it out. Very smart!
This Greek island is up for auction for €247,000. It's called Makri, and just three years ago, it was listed for €8 million.
The plan was to build a luxury resort until it was discovered that you can't legally build anything there. So now, nobody wants to buy it.
I still think there might be an opportunity for a creative entrepreneur...
Here are a few of my crazy (are they really crazy?) ideas:
🎬 Private island content studio that you rent to wellness brands, influencers, travel shows, fashion shoots, drone filmmakers, and survival content creators. Make money with location fees, production support, boat logistics, permits, and drone packages.
🧩 Build the ultimate treasure hunt island, expedition-style. Guests follow clues across the island, solve puzzles, dive/snorkel, open locked chests, and discover “ancient maps". Partner with Surf Office to bring companies for team building.
⛵ A floating hotel around the island, combined with a few off-grid cabins, chemical toilets, and a light shade structure. The island becomes the private backdrop and swimming playground. I would use small A-frame cabins from Lushna Cabin Hotels.
🥁 Just buy it with 10 friends and plan a camping trip on YOUR island every year. Maybe turn it into a small, private, and exclusive Fyre festival (better executed, ofc), create hype on socials, and sell swag.
Any other ideas?
PS: The auction is set on November 13, 2026.
I analyzed popular community coliving spaces in Europe and created a formula to identify small hotels for sale that could be a good fit for this concept 🎯
It requires deep knowledge to determine which hospitality concepts would work best for properties on the market, along with extensive analysis and experimentation with data.
I found it an interesting challenge to reverse-engineer successful coliving businesses and automate the entire real estate sourcing process. Starting with coliving and potentially expanding into other concepts (longevity hotels, etc.).
🔍 The process:
1. I found a website called Colivium that rates community-focused coliving spaces (“community” meaning it’s not just a vacation rental with a “coliving” marketing label).
2. Analyzed the 40 most popular spaces and added additional data points such as airport distance, prices, seasonality, occupancy rates, years in operation, etc.
3. Then created a formula and applied it to Buy That Hotel listings. There is now a collection of small hotels for sale that could be a good fit for coliving. I also added notes to relevant listings.
👀 Some observations from my research:
- The average minimum stay is 13 nights, and the more successful spaces tend to require even longer stays (which greatly simplifies operations and reduces costs)
- The main formula for success is acquiring an inexpensive property in a non-mainstream location. It can even be 2 hours from the airport, as long as the concept itself attracts guests.
- In tourist-heavy locations, coliving struggles to compete with Airbnb and Booking, where operators can achieve much higher ROI without investing resources into building a coliving brand or community. The main opportunity there is using coliving as a concept for the mid- and low-season.
- Success can be improved by building a strong brand and community and applying basic hotel revenue management (which almost none of these businesses do). However, the ultimate differentiator is still the acquisition cost of the property, whether through purchase or rent.
- There are many copycats: when a successful coliving opens in the middle of nowhere, someone else often launches a very similar concept in the same village (sometimes even on the same street)
Happy to share the list of small hotels for sale that could be a good fit for a coliving project.
This Greek island is up for auction for €247,000. It's called Makri, and just three years ago, it was listed for €8 million.
The plan was to build a luxury resort until it was discovered that you can't legally build anything there. So now, nobody wants to buy it.
I still think there might be an opportunity for a creative entrepreneur...
Here are a few of my crazy (are they really crazy?) ideas:
🎬 Private island content studio that you rent to wellness brands, influencers, travel shows, fashion shoots, drone filmmakers, and survival content creators. Make money with location fees, production support, boat logistics, permits, and drone packages.
🧩 Build the ultimate treasure hunt island, expedition-style. Guests follow clues across the island, solve puzzles, dive/snorkel, open locked chests, and discover “ancient maps". Partner with Surf Office to bring companies for team building.
⛵ A floating hotel around the island, combined with a few off-grid cabins, chemical toilets, and a light shade structure. The island becomes the private backdrop and swimming playground. I would use small A-frame cabins from Lushna Cabin Hotels.
🥁 Just buy it with 10 friends and plan a camping trip on YOUR island every year. Maybe turn it into a small, private, and exclusive Fyre festival (better executed, ofc), create hype on socials, and sell swag.
Any other ideas?
PS: The auction is set on November 13, 2026.
@ArondeParon Twitter is a waste of time unless you have 10k+ followers and for that you need to be already famous or spend 4 hours a day shittposting.
With your projects I would focus on programatic SEO and Reddit.