CrashMyPad is a service where travelers can find and book a unique place to stay from locals with a room or home to spare.
Target Audience: Property owners and travelers from around the world looking for a unique and affordable alternative to your typical hotel experience.
Website URL: https://www.crashmypad.com
Feedback sought:
1) Visit https://www.crashmypad.com/. What is your initial impression of what you see? Are you immediately drawn to click any of the buttons? Why or why not?
2) Are you encouraged to sign up for a free account? If not, why?
3) How do you think the site compares to other similar sites/competitors like wimdu.com and airbnb.com?
4) Please share any additional feedback/comments you may have.
About Crashmypad:
CrashMyPad is a service where travelers can find and book a unique place to stay from locals with a room or home to spare.
Visit crashmypad.com, your alternative accommodations marketplace! Enjoy FREE listing of your short term rental or available space. Right now we are searching the world for the most unique and affordable accommodations and listing them on our site. Traveling to new places should be fun and exciting and we offer guests the ability to travel like a local when visiting a destination.
1) Visit https://www.crashmypad.com/. What is your initial impression of what you see? Are you immediately drawn to click any of the buttons? Why or why not?
I thought at first this was yet another travel/hotel site, with a hokey name. It was only after a few moments that I realized what the twist was here, and I found it to be a unique, and potentially fun and useful resource for travelers. I was curious to watch the video on the landing page, and I really wanted to like it but the execution was off. It was a tad too generic as well. i was also curious to input a few locations just to see what popped up. The prices range from high to absurd. People are obviously looking to bank on desperation or wealthy customers.
2) Are you encouraged to sign up for a free account? If not, why?
I neither have need for a place to stay in the near future or desire to offer one to someone else, so I don’t have a legitimate reason to participate at the moment. That doesn’t mean that the idea isn’t appealing, or that I wouldn’t consider using the service in the future. The listings look east to setup, and the site as a whole seems simple to navigate and utilize. that would help me in deciding to come back when I wanted to try your services. The hokey name does give you a personality, and as far as what you offer, it really doesn’t detract from your image.
3) How do you think the site compares to other similar sites/competitors like wimdu.com and airbnb.com?
Both of your competitor sites have poor domain names, so that’s a battle you win right off the bat. They both appear to have similar setups and design. Your site seems to draw from both of theirs as far as appearance goes. I’m noticing more reasonable prices over there, but that’s a generality without more research to back it up. Immediate impression is that they’d beat you for bargain customer patronage. Airbnb smacks you down with their references (listed at the bottom, including television, magazines and Conan). Airbnb has the superior interface and number of results, your site has almost as many but noi interface on any of the results pages (really needs to be), and then Wimdu, which straggles noticeably in results, but has a slightly inferior interface compared to Airbnb. I based this on the same two cities being searched at each site, and the results that came up.
4) Please share any additional feedback/comments you may have.
Okay, there are definitely some issues with the concept. Who are these people putting up homes/rooms for rent? Is there any sort of verification system in place that makes sure the rooms are legit? Is anyone going to be expected to leave their home in the hands of strangers? How would that work? This seems to be something people on a budget are going to steer clear of. I don’t see you attracting anyone concerned with price, so you may want to focus on promoting more expensive trips and ideas, or clientele. I don’t see how on earth your business will be able to mediate disputes between your clients and their customers. I could see all sorts of things going sour and the blame being shifted to your company. These aren’t businesses; they’re people. Someone ends up hating someone else, or stealing $5 off their kitchen counter and all heck breaks loose. And once again, they blame you.
Get a solid interface on all the results pages to change search parameters quickly and easily. If possible, find some famous or well known home and you can help the owner promote their name or business while you use that to gain notoriety. Airbnb has a nice map that shows locations of hits, you should think about implementing something similar.
1) Visit https://www.crashmypad.com/. What is your initial impression of what you see? Are you immediately drawn to click any of the buttons? Why or why not?
The is same as the usual ones which we use to book our trips and lodgings.But the site is bit different version i liked its background and way of designing.We can understand the way of booking in this site pretty easy way.The designing is simple to use and it show the usage.The idea of video in the home page is pretty good it initializes a motivation of travel and its sides. It was a tad too generic as well.When i just searched it it pretty well to see different locations with different cost varying from high to low.This site does not have much critics but all the apartments and rooms mentioned in is a bit costly,simple ones cant afford it.so look on to it.The pages in facebook,twitter and youtube will enough advertisement for site,it is pretty good.
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2) Are you encouraged to sign up for a free account? If not, why?
If the need is certain or if we want surly we will sign up.As the account is free and as it does not require any verification or card most ones will sign up.The logging on with Facebook account is pretty good,and creating a new account_it is a simpler one so mostly everyone will create a account.But more advertisement and coverage will give more sources or users.”Crashmypad” it is a pretty good name,the name has a status and it shows that.
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3) How do you think the site compares to other similar sites/competitors like wimdu.com and airbnb.com?
I think both have same way of home page with dates,location,videos,about them in a same manner.Both have a bad domain compared to us,but it wont do all. They both appear to have similar setups and design. Your site seems to draw from both of theirs as far as appearance goes. But there is a great advantage for them,they have got verified hosts and more visible promoters_which increases their sources or users. Immediate impression is that they’d beat you for bargain customer patronage.i have browsed both sites,compared to us they have more sources and more places in their list,when i search “kochi” in crashmypad no genuine results came up which is comfortable for me.But in other two sites we got a list which is secured and a true line on.that is the main difference between our site and that sites.
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4) Please share any additional feedback/comments you may have.
Definitely there are comments,really bad comments.Do u have got any true verification for the rooms,apartments and are u sure that if some one fixs a date,and can u provide rooms for them on that date.most tags shown in this site are unsorted and they are too costly,which make no one to select that rooms.I don’t see you attracting anyone concerned with price, so you may want to focus on promoting more expensive trips and ideas, or clientele. U need to focus on more clients in my words still your site is not ready for launch. I could see all sorts of things going sour and the blame being shifted to your company. These aren’t businesses; they’re people.
find some famous or well known home and you can help the owner promote their name or business while you use that to gain notoriety. Airbnb has a nice map that shows locations of hits, you should think about implementing something similar.
just keep the points on and please rebuild the site for more convenience.