<story><title>1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09)</title><url>http://blog.airbnb.com/airbnb-celebrates-1000000-nights-booked</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ben1040</author><text>Glad to see a lot of people were able to book rooms there.  I wasn&apos;t, but not for lack of trying.&lt;p&gt;I wish they would offer hosts more flexible controls for showing availability (and make sure hosts use them) so that people don&apos;t try to book places only to get negative responses from hosts who don&apos;t know if it&apos;ll be available at the time and to check back later.  I was trying to book a place in SF for Google I/O and got a lot of responses saying that May is too far out for them to say for sure.  It got pretty frustrating.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t have a place to host so I can&apos;t see what the controls exactly  look like right now, but from browsing available properties it looks like the default case is that the place shows up as &quot;available&quot; unless there&apos;s an Airbnb booking in effect for a given date or the owner explicitly has blocked it out.&lt;p&gt;Given my experience searching for places, it&apos;d be nicer if hosts had the option to say things like &quot;don&apos;t show as available further out than X time into the future&quot; or &quot;default as unavailable except on specific days.&quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09)</title><url>http://blog.airbnb.com/airbnb-celebrates-1000000-nights-booked</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>For perspective, a single large Vegas hotel books that many nights each year. (For instance, Mandalay Bay has 3300 rooms.)</text></comment>