[INTRO] Honest Booking

[puregold020]

Introducing my first SaaS app:

https://honestbooking.com

A bit of backstory, wanted to do my own SaaS app for months but was looking for ideas. Stumbled upon this article https://medium.com/backchannel/buying-tickets-to-restaurants-114e5b9c768f on 9 December, thinking that it's a good idea (given that I dined a lot in Melbourne).

Went to my usual barber the week after and had a chat about an online booking system that he wanted to have where customers can book for his service easily whilst avoiding fake / non-genuine bookings.

Put one to one together, and I've been spending my nights and weekends developing Honest Booking from mid December (I work full time in a big corp).

It's developed using the usual stack: Stripe, Heroku, Amazon (Route53, S3, CloudFront, SES), and Twilio. The front-end was a spaghetti of jQuery and a bootstrap template from somewhere (can't remember). In hindsight, should have gone with Ember, but then, I was looking for a quick solution smile

I come from a technical background, so I'm always interested to tackle the technical stuff first. So, I didn't do the usual startup stuff, i.e. no idea validation, no business model canvas, etc. wink

Anyway, hope to hear your feedback.

 

[613jono]

@puregold020 Hey Donny,

Very nice work, nice looking site, you have a shot. A few things.

1. Post this on entrepreneur AND /r/startups . This is a pretty good looking product and you want it to be seen.
2. Don't make it unlimited business-initiated. Owners will work around it, and it's also not the difference between buying or not buying. Don't leave money on the table. I'm serious, I use a booking system for my two maid companies and it's no difference.

Other than that, great job!

 

[puregold020]

@613jono Hi man

Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciated.

1) yeah. Tried that but got deleted because of my lack of karma will try again once I've enough
2) hmm. Interesting. The main value of Honest Booking is to allow customers to book. The unlimited business-initiated bookings is just a sweetener. But I get what you mean. I'll revisit again once I've picked up more HB customers.

Thanks once again for feedback. Really appreciated