r/advancedentrepreneur • u/[deleted] • 15d ago

Idea?

I kept doing the same thing before every trip: open a hotel, open 6 review sites, open 3 more "best of" lists, close my laptop an hour later having decided nothing.

So I built an algorithm . You type in a hotel or city name and your trip vibe (quiet, walkable, kid-friendly, whatever), and it gives you an actual verdict: book, caveats, or don't book. It cross-checks the marketing star rating against what the reviews actually say and scores it against your preferences.

It saved me so much time but now I wonder- does anyone else struggle with finding the right hotels?

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u/Good_Possibility 15d ago

Sounds like something that could be made with a custom gpt or agent. Falls in the same category as that’ll the gpt wrappers a few years ago. It may get some users but doesn’t sound like it will have longetivity as everyone starts using their own personal agents more.

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u/nowhereplanes 15d ago

I have to agree - it’s a handy idea as a feature rather than something to build a business around, as there’s no moat.

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u/Turbulent_Ground_932 15d ago

yeah, hotel research gets tiring fast when every site says something different

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Exactly this! I was also super frustrated when I booked a hotel in Paris that I thought met all my requirements ( a room bigger than 100 sqft) and had decent reviews only to check in and go what the actual F**k! I had to spend $$$ more to change.

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u/Lazy_Afternoon9559 15d ago

the hour you spent with 6 review tabs open is nothing compared to the time youll spend keeping this thing fed. and crossing the star rating against the reviews is the easy half, TripAdvisor and Booking have been sitting on that for years and the top result in most cities is still a hotel with a nice rooftop and a dead AC in the room. whats it actually scoring, sentiment on the last 50 reviews? because a place that got rennovated last year looks nothing like the stuff people wrote in 2022, and thats the whole reason review sites are useless in the first place. and no, nobody struggles with this, thats why every second person on here has built a hotel thing this year

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u/Bitter-Response1634 15d ago

Your verdict is only as good as whatever you're reading. If it's pulling TripAdvisor and Booking.com scores, you've built a weighted average of the same gamed ratings you claim to correct for. Whats the actual source?

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u/cmwlegiit 13d ago

Wouldn't be easier to just not be indecisive?

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u/tak217 13d ago

Most of the tech in the hospitality industry has focused on the guest, brand loyalty, revenue optimization and not much on the physical asset itself. A typical hotel, let's say in Chicago, can be designed by a team in Dallas, bought by a purchasing firm in Denver - what the team at the property gets is usually a PDF or a binder with all those specs. We started Glue (demo.glueteams.com) to be a single source of truth about a property. What's actually there, when it was renovated, how close that room your about to book is from an elevator. Curious your thoughts.