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Welcome to Guestri! 🌴

Hi! I’m Michon, and I’m excited to share the story behind Guestri, a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Guestri is an app that helps Airbnb and short-stay rental hosts give their guests a smoother, more professional experience.

Think of it as a digital guest book but smarter. Guests scan a QR code when they arrive and instantly get access to everything they need: house rules, WiFi info, local recommendations, upsells, and more.

Why Guestri?

The idea for Guestri came from noticing how often short-stay rentals still rely on paper binders, scattered messages, or confusing check-in instructions. For guests, that’s inconvenient. For hosts, it’s inefficient.

I wanted to create a tool that was simple for hosts to set up and valuable for guests to use, bridging that gap with one clean solution.

Building Guestri

Over the last year, I’ve been building, refining, and testing Guestri. Here’s what it looks like today:

Guest App: Guests scan a QR code to access house rules, WiFi, check-in details, recommendations and even more.
CRM for Hosts: A central dashboard where hosts can view guest info, send messages (WhatsApp, email, SMS), and track repeat stays.
Marketing Tools: Export guest lists, track guest growth over time, and send updates or promotions.
Integrations (coming soon): Plans to connect with popular channel managers and booking platforms.

For the tech stack, I’ve been using React (Vite) with Supabase for database and auth, plus Supabase Edge Functions instead of a traditional backend. Messaging runs through integrations like Resend for email and WhatsApp Business API for guest communication.

The Journey So Far

✅ Built the MVP and onboarded my parents
✅ Got a few paying customers through Stripe
✅ Have around 6 paying test users that
✅ Fixed bugs, polished the guest-facing experience, and added early features

Right now, my focus is on:

Polishing the whole product in general to make it a product ready saas
Growing from test users to a real user base
Validating the long-term potential of Guestri as a scalable SaaS

What’s Next?

I’m doubling down on making Guestri as simple and useful as possible. For guests, that means a beautiful, intuitive app. For hosts, that means tools that save them time and help them run their rentals more professionally.

Beyond that, I’m thinking about the bigger picture:

Can Guestri scale into a large SaaS with hundreds of hosts?
Should I expand into related niches, like remote vacation rental management?
What’s the best growth path from a few paying customers to something much bigger?

Final Thoughts

Guestri is still in its early days, but I’m proud of how far it’s come in just the last year. Building this has been a mix of technical problem-solving, design, and entrepreneurship and I’ve learned a ton already.

Whether Guestri becomes the next million-dollar SaaS or leads me toward new ideas, I’m excited to keep building, experimenting, and growing.

Visit Guestri

Thanks for following the journey and here’s to making guest experiences smoother, one stay at a time. 🏡✨

Michon