Pieter Levels Launches Hotelist.com for Honest Ratings
Founder promotes AI site to surface negative hotel feedback suppressed elsewhere.
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Pieter Levels posted about Hotelist.com, his project to aggregate real hotel reviews using AI and counter high ratings on platforms like Airbnb. He noted that removing negative reviews creates booking anxiety because users cannot verify listings. Researcher Ivan Vendrov quoted the discussion and highlighted the incentive problem of suppressing feedback after decades of e-commerce. Vendrov asked why profitable honest info-brokers have not appeared and suggested projecting hospitality onto one dimension may be unnecessary.
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ivan@IvanVendrovvery interesting incentive design problem that I'd expect us to have solved after 25 years of e-commerce. clearly there will be more consumer surplus long term if negative reviews don't get suppressed. so why aren't there super-profitable 'honest info-brokers'?…
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@L @levelsio@levelsioNever stop talking about your new projects until everyone finds out! https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/2091863677574009001
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@L @levelsio@levelsioThis is pretty much most of my friend's Airbnb stories I have no clue what @bchesky is doing every day He could stop removing negative reviews on Airbnb to make it better When people stop believing in Airbnb listings credibility, it creates such an anxiety around booking…
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KY Kyle@kylekapperStayed at an Airbnb in Joshua Tree where the only bathroom smelled strongly of mold and had obvious water damage and visible mold along the wall. I sent photos to the host and Airbnb and messaged repeatedly, but the owner never personally responded, just his AI assistant. It…
RC Renzo Canepa@rcanepagIn 2025, I booked a "luxurious villa" in Tulum for around $1,000 a night for me, my wife and our 2yo. Location was great but the place itself wasn’t a villa at all. Completely open to the outside so spiders, bugs and insects were everywhere. No AC. Shower barely had any…
BS BRANDTALE SAGA@BrandTale_Saga@levelsio yeah keep posting about it That analytics spike is no joke, 194k is wild for a free hotel tool Already bookmarked Hotelist for my next trip, the fake 4.7 problem is so real