I think most of the infrastructure is the same for couchsurfing, but my sense is that couchsurfing.com is more optimized around travel than around “person needs a place to crash to get back on their feet”, which requires… something like more expectation of emotional effort on the part of the host? (The stronger vetting is also a thing, but I think even after having vet, it’s a fairly different experience to have someone live with you a couple months than a couple days or weeks)
I am somewhat skeptical that Y Couchinator can really scale outside narrow-ish communities with internal trust. (Although i don’t think it needs to be tied to any particular community – but I think it need to be built on an actual social network, in a way that couchsurfing isn’t, and that LinkedIn sort of tries to be but rapidly was gamed into nonsense)
The idea looks similar to https://www.couchsurfing.com to me.
I think most of the infrastructure is the same for couchsurfing, but my sense is that couchsurfing.com is more optimized around travel than around “person needs a place to crash to get back on their feet”, which requires… something like more expectation of emotional effort on the part of the host? (The stronger vetting is also a thing, but I think even after having vet, it’s a fairly different experience to have someone live with you a couple months than a couple days or weeks)
I am somewhat skeptical that Y Couchinator can really scale outside narrow-ish communities with internal trust. (Although i don’t think it needs to be tied to any particular community – but I think it need to be built on an actual social network, in a way that couchsurfing isn’t, and that LinkedIn sort of tries to be but rapidly was gamed into nonsense)