Marketplace / Booking Platform / AI
BookFarmhouses.com
Building a dedicated farmhouse booking marketplace for Goa.
A two-sided farmhouse booking marketplace built for Goa locals, connecting property owners directly with residents looking for venues for birthdays, functions, parties and short getaways.
- Marketplace
- Booking
- AI
- Next.js
- Prisma
- Razorpay
- Google Cloud
Product overview.
BookFarmhouses.com connects farmhouse owners directly with local customers seeking venues for birthdays, functions, parties and getaways. It is designed primarily for Goa residents rather than tourists.
The problem.
Discovery is fragmented across Instagram, Google, recommendations and direct messages. Manual pricing and availability conversations make booking time-consuming and uncertain.
The product.
A dedicated aggregation and booking platform centralizes discovery, real-time availability, transparent pricing, instant online booking and direct owner-to-customer communication.
Capabilities
Inside the product.
- Centralized property discovery and natural-language farmhouse search
- Real-time availability and transparent pricing
- Instant online booking and direct owner communication
- Affiliate-based acquisition
- AI-generated and streaming property descriptions
Architecture / Engineering
How it fits together.
- Application
- Next.js, Prisma and NextAuth v5.
- Storage
- Google Cloud Storage.
- AI
- Claude AI for descriptions and natural-language search.
- Payments
- Razorpay for online booking payments.
Technology stack.
- Next.js
- Prisma
- NextAuth v5
- Google Cloud Storage
- Razorpay
- Claude AI
Integrations.
Razorpay
Online booking payments.
Claude AI
Property descriptions and natural-language discovery.
Resend / WhatsApp Business API / RazorpayX
Planned
Planned integrations.
Product workflow.
Product journey
- Local customer
- Property discovery
- Availability
- Booking
- Razorpay
- Property owner
Vendor journey
Business model.
Approximately 10% platform commission and 90% owner share, with no brokers between owners and customers. Affiliate marketing supports acquisition.
Who it serves.
Goa residents and local event customers. Owner focus includes Sattari, Bicholim, Sanguem, Ponda and Dodamarg.
Roadmap / planned.
Planned integrations: Resend, WhatsApp Business API and RazorpayX.
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