Maybe i'll do this someday = I'm thinking about creating something of the sort. I need at least a half-baked idea to start asking for cooking help. And then plan the bake sale. I'm all about making shit happen and I've been tackling smaller projects, helping out friends with their big idea. Helped my friend Jerome feed 200 people at our regional this summer: And the speakeasy experience we created with my friend has been a huge success too, it's given me confidence in my entertainment abilities :) We're #1 in our city right now! I hear AirBNB is launching this new thing called "concerts" in our city in October. I'm not huge on music myself, but if my boyfriend wants to tackle the musical side of it I'll totally transform our basement into the coolest space ever. But setting up something like Please don't tell in NYC, or that spooky cemetery event I mistakenly snuck into last year: 
I wonder how similar the AirBnB concerts are to what HomeDitty is doing. I'm not a fan, because a host doesn't receive any payment from hosting. But it's certainly interesting.
I think they are looking for 2 things: 1. unique spaces (concerts on a boat, private rooftop, mongolian yurt have a great appeal) 2. cheap-ish to produce music so it's profitable even with a small audience. Minimal band members, accoustic, minimal props. So a cool dude with an artsy loft, an acoustic guitar and a unique musical style can probably do pretty well from what I can gather. A quick calculus of 10 people at 20$ (or 20 at 10$, whatever), 20% Airbnb fee: as an artist you just made 160$ for an hour of music. You can actually earn a LOT more, the question is wether the demand is there. The struggle is to actually set up that cool space, and get popular enough to get reliable bookings. Basically, I feel it's worth trying out at the launch since we do have a lot of musician friends. Worst case, we just pimp out our basement as a cool party venue and come out even ?
haha I hear that, no mongolian yurt in my pocession in the near future My basement is already fairly pimped out, friends have painted murals on the walls. We've hosted loads of concerts there already. Are the concerts only beta in one city?
I only know about Montreal - I know they launch a couple cities at a time so you should look into where it's at with your city. It might have launched already! Go for it. It has a a high earning potential IMO, and it's really minimal effort to get started. It's just a matter of whether it's going to pick up or not.