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.

I’m flying with @airBaltic and connected to Starlink internet with one click. No login, no paywall, no slow shitty internet. All for no extra cost. If a small airline from a country with fewer than 2 million people can do this, why don’t we have fast in-flight internet on every plane?

Very well-made website/app. This can be productized and sold to municipalities all around the world.

A perfect day to try the new @flexport Atlas app. You can see the ships around you on the map and read more about them (where they are heading, flag, etc.)

Got my @useTRMNL today! Planning to hack a few plugin ideas this week

I stopped at a farm in the middle of Netherlands to buy some fresh eggs 🥚🍳 Found a shop but nobody was around… it was self-service

Is it now a good time to buy real estate in Venezuela? I began tracking hotel listings last week, and I'm also looking at a few off-market deals. Hard to answer the question with a clear "yes" or "no", but here are my 2 cents: - There are some prime locations like the Margarita island with a huge opportunity to be developed, like the Tulum-Playa de Carmen area, in the next 10-15 years - I looked at the hotels for sale in Margarita one year ago, and they were dirty cheap - But since Maduro is in NYC, prices already adjusted (still cheap but still a lot of risk involved) - It will take a while until things settle, and the market will fully open to international tourism - The hotel infrastructure is not in good shape, with zero capex investments in the last 30 years - The best strategy might be to buy beachfront land and hold for a while to see how things are going to develop - Venezuela was once the wealthiest country in South America, but now the domestic demand is almost non-existent - this will change

Big new trends in hospitality are usually about rebranding something from past: wellness hotel >> longevity hotel hostel wifi >> coliving for digital nomads timeshare >> fractional ownership

81 days ago, I placed a sticker on a paper container near my home in Amsterdam I hate it when someone leaves empty Amazon boxes in front of a full paper container. Is it because they don’t know where the next container is, or are they just too lazy to look for it? I believed that if I could remove that friction, nobody would leave the mess. So I quickly designed a sticker in @figma and made an order on @stickermule After posting it on reddit, many people called me naive or even stupid, and I was curious if they were right (I honestly thought that they probably were haha) 81 days after: it happened only once that a person left a paper box there. Before, it was all the time. So I posted a little report on r/amsterdam reddit again, and someone from the city hall reached out that they might implement it city-wide 🤯 Lesson learned: never give up on your naive experiments 😀

Possibly a great candidate for a nice pop-up. @VitalikButerin take note!

Unplugged detox cabins are doing equity crowdfunding, which is a great opportunity to learn about this business 🙂 They are the most visible brand in this niche in Europe, with a very strong online presence. I always see crowdfunding as a red flag ⛳️ that the business is not performing well. The reasoning behind it might sound appealing ("we want our community to be part of our success"), but in most cases, it means 2 things: 1. Not able to raise money from professional investors who do proper due diligence 2. Trying to raise money under conditions that are not favorable for small investors I'm not saying that any of these is the case of Unplugged. Just thinking that most founders prefer to have a couple of larger investors than an army of thousands of retail investors who give you 200 bucks and act like they invested 200k. So let's look at the data 📊 - 45 cabins operating - 85% occupancy in the last 2.5 years - 100% direct bookings - Not profitable My take: This is an extremely hard business to scale. They have a small lean team, with probably not high costs. However, as cabins are distributed across the UK and other parts of Europe, with 1-3 cabins at each site, this makes it difficult to achieve profitability on a large scale. Having 100% direct bookings sounds appealing to retail investors, but in reality, it means that they leave a lot of money on the table in terms of scale and pricing. Not profitable with 45 cabins? How can you scale to 6000 cabins with the same model and become profitable? Unit economics don't work. This concept is perfect validation for someone who would like to do it on a small scale, on their own land and own cabins. A lot of demand allows you to create a really nice business.

The only part missing when travelling with family in a campervan is community. Super cool project that solves this problem. Nikolaj is worth following if you are interested in niche hospitality concepts that focus on family travel. He's been building "Remote Year for families", small villages for nomadic families, and I'm sure he has a couple of new projects in stealth.

I'm experimenting with a campervan workation 🚌 💻 My dream is to travel in a campervan with my family for an extended period (1 month or more) and explore ways to balance it with work. On my previous campervan trips, I did some work, but it was always some ad-hoc catch-up or urgent tasks that I couldn't or didn't want to delegate. So now I'm testing a small version (2 weeks) of such a workation trip in the South of Italy 🇮🇹 This is my formula after a week: - I'm able to work about 1 hour in the morning and 3 hours in the evening, after the kids go to sleep - Don't see realistic to work more than these 4 hours and still enjoy the trip and family time - Trying to avoid looking at Slack/emails during the day, and be fully present - For the best (unique) experience, we try to find microcampsites (on park4night and Campspace) at farms, beaches, or natural places - A self-sufficient large camper is a must with a family of 4 if you want to optimize for time and move a lot (we stay 1-2 nights at one place) - Tethering the internet from the phone using Airalo works perfectly in Italy, with no dependency on Wi-Fi The best part about Italy is that pizza/pasta/gelato make every single day epic! 📷 My morning session at an olive orchard somewhere in the middle of nowhere, in between Naples and Bari