Per trading desk they said "yeah, crazy right, a lot of people are gonna get caught sleeping on this one", as in when market has that cycle it will get "interesting" when the forced sells occur accelerating the drop, that those in the know have algorithms built and set to grab the bottom.

As best as I can tell on both sites, the algorithm looks something like this:Cheapest price>least restrictions (cancellation, # of days minimum, etc)>Premier/Super host>Review Scores>Most discounts (weekly, last minute, etc)>Regular revisions

When those first (hopefully 5-star) reviews hit, will we get an algorithm bump? 

They like to keep their algorithm hidden.

See, it's a snazzy start-up where everything is remote (besides their main office in SF) and they got da fancy "algorithms" & da nifty "machine learning" with a coefficient quadratic equation here and a pythagorean theorem there that tells them what rent should be and tenant profiles you should look for.

It'll be the most accurate talking to boots on the ground and not an algorithm. 

Aside from the financial resources, I suppose one skill is I write algorithms to distill signal from bulk data for a living, so if there are any other programmers out there please reach out!

The algorithm is properly ignoring your listing now.

Learning the intricacies of Airbnb’s algorithms will be my next challenge, but I’m up for it!

:Originally posted by @Jerry Shen:1) There is a difficulty algorithm built into bitcoin so this scenario is impossible.