How I used Airbnb to fund a hit iPhone app

"Let’s say a $100-per-night room is booked for a conservative 20 nights out of the month. That’s $2,000 of income every time you flip the calendar! At that rate, you can fully fund a basic $10,000 app in five months. "<p>Only if you don't tell the IRS, or New York City, or New York State about your extra income.

If you've already got a nice pad in NYC or SF, is it really that likely you can't come up with $10k? At most that's only a few months rent...

Is it not just easier to learn Objective-C / Cocoa touch, than have strangers filing in and out of your spare bedroom for 5 months?

Very cool. I've used AirBnB as a means to travel and live abroad for an extended period of time while working on my startup. I've connected with developers in countries like Germany (lots of iOS developers here) and am building something together with one of them now. It's a fascinatingly global market place.

"How I used Airbnb to fund a hit iPhone app"<p>Is it possible to know how many downloads or how much revenue this "hit" app is getting right now? Anyone care to share some numbers?

Is 10.000$ really a problem to raise if you call an apartment your own which sells a room for 125$ a day?