Booking

Product

How Booking works

From a Booking.com or Airbnb link to your own bookable web address in about five minutes. No commission and no online payments.

For guests

  1. Open the property's own link and pick your dates; the price is calculated per night.
  2. Request or book without creating an account.
  3. Confirm your phone and email with a verification code and link.
  4. Follow the booking from a private link. Only the host can cancel.

For hosts

  1. Paste your Airbnb or Booking.com link: title, photos, amenities and capacity are imported.
  2. Review the generated and translated content, then pick one of 10 designs.
  3. Choose the mode: request (you approve, optionally adjusting the price) or instant.
  4. Get notified of every booking by SMS or email and cancel from the dashboard.

Guest verification

Before a booking reaches the host, the guest proves that the phone number and the email address are real.

Phone: SMS through Twilio

A one-time code is sent by SMS with Twilio. Numbers are stored in E.164 format.

Email: SMTP (Gmail)

A verification link is sent over SMTP from a Gmail account. Another SMTP service, such as Resend, only needs different environment settings.

Payments

Booking does not collect or process payments, for tax reasons. Host and guest settle directly: cash, bank transfer, card on arrival or a payment link, configured per property.

Technology

One Next.js application with a background worker and a PostgreSQL database.

Frontend
Next.js 16React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSS 4Framer Motionnext-intl
Backend
Next.js server actionsAuth.js v5Prisma 7Job queue and worker
Data
PostgreSQL 16
Notifications
Twilio (SMS)SMTP with Nodemailer (Gmail)
AI
Anthropic Claude
Quality
VitestPlaywright
Infrastructure
Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (VPS)Docker ComposeCloudflare Tunnel

Hosting

Production runs on a VPS with Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS. Docker Compose runs the app, the worker and PostgreSQL 16 behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. The image is built on the developer's workstation and shipped to the server, never compiled there.

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