Splacer: A Commercial Space Sharing Platform
Sharing platforms like Airbnb began serving their customers, Airbnb in 2008, and Uber and Lyft, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, in ways that completely disrupted their more traditional counterparts. Airbnb’s home-rental platform and Uber/Lyft’s ride-sharing platforms are giving hospitality and transportation consumers more options – options that are often cheaper and more accommodating, exclusive, and intimate – like having their own local friend driving them around or hosting them in a new city. The past 10 years have seen the widespread escalation of coworking spaces and a market shift toward shorter, shape-shifting real estate leasing cycles. These movements are shaking up the way commercial real estate, architecture and interior design operate in the contract space. In case you’re wondering, Airbnb for the office and other non-residential spaces does exist – in a company called Splacer. But, where Airbnb lacks in quality control, Splacer does not; the tech and design theory …
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