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Airbnb and all Airbnb competitors are drawing on the same housing inventory. There's not something clever or cute a competitor can do to "hack" it because property owners are unlikely to move to a competitor that offers less compensation
But property owners do routinely list units on multiple platforms, the same way one driver can work with both Uber and Lyft in the same car
Posted this somewhere else in the thread already, but I have seen one company doing it differently https://livekindred.com/
It's a member's only home swapping network, so it's more like fancy couch surfing than Airbnb.