We are helping Landlords like you thrive in this new Gig Economy. Split up your spare room with high end Japanese-style hotel capsules in order to improve the quality of your tenants and increase monthly revenue.
I saw these and I thought they were so cute, like I genuinely wanted one for myself because it looked like something out of Subnautica. Then I go to the website and lo- it's made for fucking landlords.
They even have a calculator that calculates rent for the pods.
They'll never regulate this shit, you'll have an absolute
putting like 10 in a house and charging every head full rent.
We are helping Landlords like you thrive in this new Gig Economy.
No way this is real. Somebody from here has to have written this as a bit. It's another one of these things where it sounds like it's tailor-made to drive Hexbear users insane. The only thing that's missing here is an AI assistant inside the pod, watching you sleep.
Their FB page is filled with obviously botted reviews
I really hope this is an elaborate bit, I watched one of their landleech "testimonial" vids and it didn't seem obviously generated by AI, he was boasting about increasing his monthly yield of blood by 80% using some of these
Edit, addendum:
Website is extremely sus imo
Filled with stock photos/photos ripped from other places and the videos they have of people "reviewing" their pods look like carefully edited-down reviews people have made of capsule hotels, this shit is definitely a scam
Although actually maybe they're just reselling/"dropshipping" capsule hotel pods to landlords tbh, I saw some similar photos on Alibaba product listings
Landleech dropshipping scheme lmao, what an incredible variety of parasites our society has produced
We even have have parasites that feed on other parasites
I think you’re right. It’s either a drop shipping service or a scammer trying to profit from landlords by using renters and online users to spread the website in the hopes it attracts landlords.
The site was created recently, and every post about this only came into existence today. The catalysts seem to be supposed landlords asking innocuous questions on forums about whether they should implement more of these pods in their units and getting a ton of backlash.
This is either a bit or a grift using people like us as their pawns.
This is either a bit or a grift using people like us as their pawns.
Yeah :(
It's definitely some kind of scam/grift. 2 of the new/recently resurrected accts on reddit posting about this were also posting about another shopify slop vendor selling paint kits or some shit like a month ago
Dead internet theory
This is seriously making me reconsider how much "discussion" on reddit is entirely artificial
Okay, okay, maybe I'm looking into this too deeply but
Also, the only people talking about this online are either people making fun of it or accts that are either new or were inactive for years suddenly posting about it
Example, this user who was inactive for 6 years and then suddenly is posting about these fucking pods and arguing with people:
It can be just someone trying to scam investors/VCs out of their money by "developing" a product that they know will never see the light of day, but that will pay the bills for a few years.
Bugs aren't even bad, lots of cultures eat and cook with them (chirpy chip cookies made with crickets in the US) but you know it will be the most cursed insect that's used in the US.
His unit started attracting white-collar professionals and international students
Imagine studying to be an accountant or programmer or whatever and then having to live in one of these things. I bet a "depressing commie block" doesn't look so bad from the inside of a pod.
I don't trust this thing not to build up dangerous levels of carbon dioxide while you sleep. Do you really think they thought hard about breathability while making it 'soundproof'?
Is this real? The language of the site almost seems like a joke. And the only content related to SomiPods were all posted today and primarily on Reddit.
I see one landlord forum post of some guy supposedly meeting the sales rep at Costco lol. Another landlord chimes in and says it’s already here in the UK. But even then, these posts were also only posted today. Seems a bit strange that these things are already implemented yet even landlords seem to have found out about it today, alongside the rest of us. The account who created the thread also only created their account today.
Their testimonial section also includes news articles… about pods, in general. Not their brand. In fact some are even advertising other brands lol
Capsule hotels are real and have been for a very long time. Can't comment on this website, but tiny little pre-fab pods just big enough to shove a bed in, sometimes with tvs or whatever, stacked on racks to cram in as many as possible, have existed in Japan at least for decades. Characters living out of a capsule hotel is a common theme in cyberpunk.
They are a thing in Japan at present day. The bizarre thing to me about them is that they aren't any cheaper than an airbnb. I've even seen some standard private hotels that are similar in price. I would have imagined that the entire appeal to a capsule hotel would be that they would necessarily have to be dirt cheap
I assume they are located in highly desirable locations so the draw is being able to crash right in the middle of the most exciting part of the city. An Airbnb or hotel room can increase by hundreds of dollars depending on which neighborhood its on. But a landlord with a suburban house trying to rent out these pods? lol
Cheap Hotel was the name of a hotel in Night City that had rentable coffins, white fiberglass capsules that were three meters long and had oval hatches that were a meter wide and just under a meter and a half tall. The coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding, organized in six tiers with ten coffins on a side. The hotel was able to be reached through an alley off Baiitsu and had an unlit neon sign near the entrance that simply said "CHEAP HOTEL."
FYI they're kind of a novelty, most hotels in Japan are normal hotels. From what I understand they're mostly a thing tourists in Tokyo do for shits and giggles.
Closer reality to this crappy motels that people actually use as cheap apartments which have been a thing for a long while.