After more than 10 years, I’m back in the SaaS.
✨ We are launching Pingotel today ✨
Pingotel is a tool for small hospitality businesses. You can use it to manage your two Airbnb apartments, guesthouse, coliving space, cabin, bike rentals… whatever you want.
Setting up and getting direct bookings takes less than 2 minutes.
Pingotel is insanely simple and flexible (see demo below).
There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of such tools, but none are designed for tiny businesses, and none are FREE.
I would love to say that I built it all myself with AI, but that wouldn’t be true.
AI is not there yet if you want to build a secure and scalable app. I really enjoy working on it with my friend Daniel, who wrote all the code (with a little help from Cursor). We have big plans.
We started exploring this idea in January, launched the prototype in February (I shared the demo here on LinkedIn), and now have a fully functional version ready. The first people are already using it.
Pingotel is part of the strategy I started working on last year, which aims to transform Surf Office into a multi-product company (more about it later).
Do you know anyone who might find Pingotel useful? If so, could you please forward this post to her? Thanks for helping spread the word 🙏
Transcript
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Hey, let me show you how it works. So when you log in to pick up, you’ll see almost nothing. So you have to create the first resource. So let’s say you are you have a guesthouse and you have two type of types of rooms. So you have a double room, for instance, three of them and then you charge ���7070 per night. You can then change in the settings like to create a different criteria for like weekends or give discounts for people staying longer and stuff like that. Then you create another resource with training rooms, let’s say A5 twin rooms and you tried a bit more for them. 85 is the base rate anyone to create a booking you send you can you have a link, you can send that link to anyone by e-mail or to social media or WhatsApp, or you can have it on your website like under the book, but the book now button. People click on the button to book and they will be redirected to this calendar That it’s very, very efficient and converts super well because it’s fast and easy and simple. So the your guess is going to choose, I’d say I’m the guest. I want to choose the dates between 8 of 11/11 of April. You see what I see what is available? You have double room and twin room available. I see how many of them are available. What’s the price? I would like to have two double rooms. I’m traveling with friends so I will pick two. And yeah I just fill out the the name and. And e-mail. You can ask other things or whatever you want. You can put them optional or mandatory. I will keep it empty. So fast booking confirmation. So you both you and the guest is going to receive a booking confirmation with all the details. You can add their information, set up the confirmation emails in the settings and you will you will for instance give instructions about the payment with the wire transfer or can put their describe link or you can you can tell the client to pay the deposit or pay you after arrival. So here is the reservation, you can open it, you can change status of the reservations. Once they let’s say they pay the deposits, ask them to pay deposit by the right transfer, you have the transaction. You can change. You can change it it’s partially paid deposit paid or you change it that it’s fully paid, confirmed. And yeah, this is show you example on the about the about the rooms if you have guest house. But you can you can create resource based on any property or any resource you have and you want to rent per day or per night. So let’s say you rent electric bikes. And you have four of them, you can hear switch the charge per day and and save ���30 per day for electric bike so. Go and open again the booking. I’ll just wait and I can ride electric bikes. So if you are if you are a hotel, for instance, and because being is probably not well designed for very simple. So for hotel with like 100 rooms, you’re not going to use Singtel, but you might just be like for renting the rooms, but you might just be hotel for. Renting the bikes or meeting spaces or anything that can be coworking desks ever, Anything that can be rented per day or per night. And you don’t have it in like your main PMS, you are using Excel sheets or some pen and papers and you want to build a system around it and you just send it to people and you can start using it for free.
