Other growth hackers noticed this and applauded it as a sophisticated technical achievement. Craigslist has different versions of its site in hundreds of cities, each with different web domains and menu formats. Blecharczyk had designed a way to make it simple for Airbnb to post seamlessly onto the right site. ‘It’s integrated simply and deeply into the product, and is one of the most impressive ad-hoc integrations I’ve seen in years,’ wrote Andrew Chen, a fellow growth hacker who would later work at Uber, in an admiring blog post. ‘Certainly a traditional marketer would not have come up with
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