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Keyhook
Rooms, bookings, website and staff tasks in one app for small hotels
- Score
- 50
- confidence 42
- Evidence
- 1
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 1990
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Hotel managers review room calendars, manage bookings and assign staff tasks during office hours at a desk. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Room calendar
Tonight: 80% full12 of 15
- Room 3, Ana Ruiz
About this appAI proposal
Keyhook is one app for a small hotel: a room calendar, an online booking page, a simple website and staff task lists. Owners stop paying for and syncing several separate tools.
It is built for owners and managers of small and mid-sized properties who want to take bookings online without a vendor for each job. Reservations from the booking page land straight on the room calendar, and housekeeping sees what to clean.
The idea follows a popular open-source hotel platform. Keyhook offers the same all-in-one approach as a hosted app, so owners do not have to run servers themselves.
- Tagline
- One desk for rooms, bookings, staff and your website.
- Voice
- CalmPracticalPlainWarm
- Why this name
- A lodge keeper's 'keyhook' is where every room key hangs in one place, like this product gathers a small hotel's tools.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Room calendar
See every room and night on one grid. Drag to move a stay, block a room for repairs, and spot gaps at a glance.
No member yet
Booking page
A hosted page where guests pick dates and room type, see the price and request or confirm a stay.
No member yet
Simple hotel website
Build a small site with photos, rooms and location. The booking page is part of it, so no second tool.
No member yet
Staff tasks
Housekeeping and front desk get daily lists. Check-outs create cleaning tasks, and staff mark rooms done on a phone.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Keyhook
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PricingAI proposal
The material names no competitor prices. The only market evidence is a popular open-source repository, which is free to self-host. These tiers are a starting point to test against hosting and setup effort.
Starter
Free
- Up to 5 rooms
- Room calendar
- Hosted booking page
- 1 staff login
Property
$39 a month
- Up to 25 rooms
- Website builder
- Card payments
- Staff tasks, 10 logins
- Guest email templates
Setup help
$250 once
- Data import from spreadsheets
- Website and rooms set up for you
- One training call
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Guests use the hotel's booking page and confirmation emails, which carry a small 'Run on Keyhook' line. Hotels share their booking link on their site, in social profiles and in messages to guests.
- Do they become customers?
- Guests rarely run hotels, so exposure alone converts few. Test whether owners who book through guest-facing links, or hotel staff moving between jobs, click the footer line and start a trial.
- First customers
- Owners of independent guesthouses and B&Bs with 5 to 20 rooms who now use a spreadsheet plus a separate booking widget and website.
- Where to reach them
- Open-source hotel communities: Join forums and repository discussions where owners ask about running their own hotel system, and offer a hosted option.
- Local tourism associations: Offer a free setup session to members of regional guesthouse and B&B groups.
- Direct outreach: Email small hotels whose sites have no online booking, with a demo booking page made for them.
- First milestone
- Ten guesthouses with 5 to 20 rooms paying monthly and taking real bookings through the page within 60 days of launch.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 14435 stars in 4002 days
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Calendar logicDate-range and availability libraryRoom nights, overlaps and blocks must never double book, so one tested layer should handle them.
- This app · Image storageObject storage with image resizingHotel websites and room pages need many photos that load fast on phones.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialThe only evidence is repository stars. It does not show that owners will pay, and a free self-hosted option may satisfy those who can run it themselves.
- TechnicalDouble bookings are costly. Without sync with outside booking sites, owners who sell on them may not switch, and building that sync is hard.
- RegulatoryStoring guest identity and card-related data brings privacy rules and, in some countries, guest registration duties that differ by place.
- PlatformOutside booking sites control much of small-hotel demand and may limit or charge for access to their connections.
- DataMoving owners off spreadsheets or old systems needs clean imports. Poor imports could stall onboarding.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.