KinkBNB 10th Anniversary Update — February 2025
It was ten years ago on February 26th that I heard one of my SW friends was banned from AirBNB and thought “There ought to be an AirBNB for kinky folks”. Ten years later and much wiser, we’ve got some lofty goals and a plan for the next ten years in place.
To prepare for this tenth-anniversary update, I read our 2024 update and all of our correspondence from last year. It’s been about a year since we started working towards the next phase of KinkBNB. As the person behind most of what we do, I have to say I was overly optimistic about our timeline last year. Lots of things that did not get factored into the equation for my “2024” schedule. As fun as 2024 was, it was also grueling! We have two different areas where we can update everyone.
The first is our technology. Over the past year, I’ve gotten some much-needed research done by installing point-of-sale systems and building voting systems for clients. This has helped us develop the next phase of KinkBNB’s technology — a downloadable app to replace the application on our website. Along with this, we are phasing in credit card transactions to purchase memberships. To those of you who have purchased a lifetime membership, nothing will change — you’ll be able to import your Metamask or crypto wallet into our app so you won’t lose anything.
The biggest changes will come from our host experience. The ability to update listings is coming, so the addition of that will make our hosts happy. We are also adding in a point-of-sale system that doesn’t live in the cloud like so many competitors do. This is actually for a reason — our plans have attracted the attention of investors who want to see privacy-focused point-of-sale systems for cannabis dispensaries, private clubs, and pop-up restaurants. We’ve been building in response to that. We will have more to announce with that in the coming months.
Technology is not the only area in which we’ve made progress. Last March, we announced that we were raising a few million dollars to buy a space here in San Francisco as a testbed for this point-of-sale technology as well as an HQ. Eagle-eyed readers will notice how that number shrank from $4 million to $50,000 over the year. There’s a very good reason for that, and that’s because we found landlords to buy buildings in the Leather District of San Francisco where we would be able to operate. This is all moving at the speed of business in San Francisco, which is another thing I failed to factor into my schedule. We haven’t announced anything official about our physical location yet because we are still negotiating the leases, but the whole story will come out sooner rather than later. A local San Francisco news source is documenting our journey, and it’ll be fun to show everyone some behind-the-scenes photos. Until then, we are still raising our crowdfunding round and are over halfway there! If you are even more curious about our ten-year plan, you can see a full business plan and pitch deck at our Wefunder Link.
So to recap: we’re still here! We hope you stick around to see what the next ten years will bring because we’ve got some huge plans!
