Build a website for submitting/viewing crowdsourced internet speeds of Airbnb listings
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
**Context:**
"Digital nomads", (/r/digitalnomad) or people who do remote work but want to travel around, need good & reliable internet speeds, and likely low latency, in order to do their work (more so if voice/video calls are required). Moreover, some people must run a VPN as well in order to mask their location or simply for additional privacy. This means users may also want LAN access to the router for wired ethernet connection in order to maximize speeds and minimize latency!
**Does it exist already?**
Sort of. Airbnb now has a feature for hosts to test their speed and advertise it on their listing page. The issue is that it appears that it is very outdated and limited. "If your wifi speed is 50 Mbps or above, your listing will be highlighted as having fast wifi". It does not provide any details. And frankly, I haven't seen ANY listings actually use this feature. It is not required of hosts, and it lacks much needed detail.
There also exists a few Chrome extensions out there that try to collect surrounding are network speeds and average them to provide a result for the Airbnb listing. This accuracy widely varies and cannot be trusted. Also, I don't want to be bound to a specific browser. A dedicated website is better.
**My basic requirements**
* Ability to report an Airbnb listing & Location (City,Country) by pasting a link and specify the following:
- Data field: "Download/Upload/Ping" (including website used to perform test)
- Checkbox: "Did you experience any dropouts in internet connection?"
- Checkbox: "Accessible router w/ open LAN ports?"
- Data field: "Ethernet cable length needed? (optional)"
* An OpenStreetView type of map interface to view user-reported listings around the world easily.
**Nice-to-haves:**
* Some security measures to auto-block details such as Wi-Fi login credentials from being posted
* Donations box
* Ability to host ads for some revenue?
**Tricky bits**
The Airbnb API is no longer available to use, as the Partner Program is closed. This means validation of Airbnb links must be done some other manual way. Scraping is maybe legally ambiguous, so perhaps a more creative way must be used here.
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I plan to use Firebase for the database part.
Thanks for reading! Any input appreciated, please.
"Digital nomads", (/r/digitalnomad) or people who do remote work but want to travel around, need good & reliable internet speeds, and likely low latency, in order to do their work (more so if voice/video calls are required). Moreover, some people must run a VPN as well in order to mask their location or simply for additional privacy. This means users may also want LAN access to the router for wired ethernet connection in order to maximize speeds and minimize latency!
**Does it exist already?**
Sort of. Airbnb now has a feature for hosts to test their speed and advertise it on their listing page. The issue is that it appears that it is very outdated and limited. "If your wifi speed is 50 Mbps or above, your listing will be highlighted as having fast wifi". It does not provide any details. And frankly, I haven't seen ANY listings actually use this feature. It is not required of hosts, and it lacks much needed detail.
There also exists a few Chrome extensions out there that try to collect surrounding are network speeds and average them to provide a result for the Airbnb listing. This accuracy widely varies and cannot be trusted. Also, I don't want to be bound to a specific browser. A dedicated website is better.
**My basic requirements**
* Ability to report an Airbnb listing & Location (City,Country) by pasting a link and specify the following:
- Data field: "Download/Upload/Ping" (including website used to perform test)
- Checkbox: "Did you experience any dropouts in internet connection?"
- Checkbox: "Accessible router w/ open LAN ports?"
- Data field: "Ethernet cable length needed? (optional)"
* An OpenStreetView type of map interface to view user-reported listings around the world easily.
**Nice-to-haves:**
* Some security measures to auto-block details such as Wi-Fi login credentials from being posted
* Donations box
* Ability to host ads for some revenue?
**Tricky bits**
The Airbnb API is no longer available to use, as the Partner Program is closed. This means validation of Airbnb links must be done some other manual way. Scraping is maybe legally ambiguous, so perhaps a more creative way must be used here.
---
I plan to use Firebase for the database part.
Thanks for reading! Any input appreciated, please.