- It’s a good idea
- There is a market for this. I started off in a co-working space, worked out of the CcHub for one year. Rents terms in Nigeria (cost and duration) defy commonsense, and are out of the reach of most startups.
The real question is: are you the right person to solve this problem? This is not one of those things you can build a website and hope people sign up. Do you own property? Do you know people that own property? If you released the service tomorrow, how many properties will you be able to list? Or will you try and figure out the chicken and egg problem after launch?
I’ve seen a ton of Nigerian startup ideas die because they were too lazy to figure out content liquidity on both sides of the equation, the supply and demand side. In this case, people who have extra space in their offices they wouldn’t mind subletting, and people who are looking for space to rent short term (cheap need not be the value proposition here). If only they’d spent a couple more weeks just identifying and talking to these people, they’d have been golden. But we like gra gra.
I’m sure I’ve said this somewhere here before. Wait, I did! I called it Officebnb.