Thanks for asking. We usually do the tagging implicitly ourselves when we make our product recommendations. You can add manual rules on top if you want to up the weight a new collection of products that have just launched or similar, for example.
Beyond Pricing is seeking our second full-stack developer to help bring dynamic pricing to the $85B vacation rental market (think Airbnb and HomeAway). As our second engineer, you'll have a huge influence on the product.
Email jobs@beyondpricing.com if you're interested.
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About Us
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Beyond Pricing is bringing dynamic pricing to Airbnb, VRBO, and the $85B vacation rental market.
We leverage massive datasets including hotel prices, local occupancy rates, airline data, and more to power a predictive and reactive pricing model that updates prices for each of our customers, daily.
We are already pricing over 6% of San Francisco Airbnbs in the two weeks since our public launch, and see between 15-40% increases in revenue for our customers. We have 1000s of customers in over 100 major global cities waiting for us to launch in their city. That's why we need you.
We are a seasoned team, all with prior experience as founders or early employees at YC companies and with strong backgrounds in revenue management for hotels and airlines. We have a great set of seed investors who have invested early in companies like Uber, Hipmunk, Optimizely, and Homejoy.
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About You
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Ideally you will have worked on the full stack of a web product before, but we’re open to talented or senior front / back-end specific engineers. You’ll be joining a small team - currently one full time and two part time engineers - so you’ll have a big influence over our product going forward.
Our stack is Python / Django on the back end, coffeescript / sass / ember on the front end.
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SKILLS
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Experience in any of the following is preferred but not required:
python
coffeescript
sass / css
ember
machine learning
statistical modeling
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CULTURE
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We are team of YC vets who understand that people come first, product comes second, and the rest should follow.
While you will probably love coming into our office (two floors, two kegs, chess boards & foosball), people are free to work from anywhere.
Outside of work, we are comprised of marathon runners, bikers, wine makers, chess players, and artists.
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BENEFITS
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All employees have full health benefits, include dental and vision.
We'd love for you to join us!
- David, Andrew, Ian and the rest of the Beyond Team
You're absolutely right. We see this all the time, partly because owners don't know what a reasonable occupancy rate is and how they compare to other listings, partly because people have an attachment to their place and overvalue it, and partly because they are only willing to deal with the work of welcoming a guest for a certain price.
Hi Adam! Yes, we are rolling out city-by-city in order of number of listings. Mountain View has around 400 active listings, so we should be there in the next month or so! We use a ton of data to derive our prices, rather than creating a generic pricing algorithm without data, so it's just a matter of getting that together and testing in each market.
I think you should indicate earlier that you don't support cities before users go through the process of creating an account only to find out they can't use your service. I understand you want to maximize users and figure out where the demand is the highest, but I think you should at least give users the option to continue creating an account if their city is not currently supported.
