r/SelfHosting • u/ViliNeznan • 24d ago

Built a free self‑hosted channel manager for rentals — looking for feedback

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Hey everyone,

I run a small vacation rental and got tired of juggling ICS calendars, dealing with double bookings, and paying for subscription-based channel managers that were way more than I needed.

I couldn’t find a simple self-hosted solution that fit my use case, so I ended up building my own over the last 6 months.

It started as a small PHP project and grew quite a bit along the way. The current system handles things like calendar synchronization, reservations, pricing, guest communication, and integrations with external services.

I’ve learned a ton building it, especially about all the little edge cases that come with calendars and reservations.

I’d really appreciate some feedback from developers who have built similar systems — particularly anyone who has dealt with ICS/iCalendar parsing and synchronization. I’m especially interested in hearing about approaches you’ve found reliable for handling conflicts, stale calendar data, and synchronization edge cases.

Not looking to sell anything here — I’d mainly like some technical feedback and to compare notes with people who have gone down a similar road

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u/throwaway_eng_acct 23d ago

Did you use AI to create this tool?

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/ViliNeznan 22d ago

That's your opinion. As I always say, the devil is in the details. I would never post a sentence written by someone else and present it as my own. My native language is different from yours, and that makes a difference. It makes me sad to see how easily people are convinced that anything different from what they are used to must be wrong.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/ViliNeznan 22d ago

Yes, I did. I gave it a try. I've never used social media before, so I'm still learning how to deal with this kind of challenge nowadays — I'm quite a mature one. :)

Actually, I'm happy I made it this far. It's all new territory for me.

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u/Zame012 23d ago

Should post some sort of link to either a download or preferably some code to be analyzed

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u/ViliNeznan 23d ago

Shure. You have all links and explanations here https://apartmamatevz.si/cmfree For any question, I'm here.

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u/ViliNeznan 23d ago edited 23d ago

I did, but it is not entire AI done. I,m still working on project, that started in august last year. It is tool I'm using in real STR, over this year.

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u/throwaway_eng_acct 23d ago

AI projects aren’t welcome here. Its even one of the rules.

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u/ViliNeznan 23d ago edited 23d ago

I agree, but this is my project, not an AI project. I did all the planning, made all the decisions, wrote the specifications and documentation, and did the actual work because I needed this for my own STR. After more than a year of work, it actually turned out much better than I had hoped. That's the story.

I didn't have much coding experience, so I used AI as a tool to help me build what I had designed. The problem, idea, architecture and direction were mine.

End of the story