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Looking for a tech cofounder for a traveltech startup

Any solid full-stack developer looking for a project?

I'm a no-code guy, just a Wordpress drag and drop plugin-dependent MVP builder (lol). My experience is marketing, SEO and growth hacking, 9 years professional experience. I've been in fintech for over 6 years now as digital sales and marketing leader, but my passion is in traveltech. I built Laguna Private Pools 10 years ago, a website of around 20 partner resorts in my little hometown, Los Baños, Laguna here in the Philippines. I managed to bring on top of the search results for keywords related to private resorts. So I had it running as a full-blown booking site. People just booked through a simple contact form and I'd receive calls day and night and got full bookings every weekend. I received the reservation fees to my personal bank account and physically brought money to the private villas' caretakers. I resigned from my first job as a content writer, so I can answer inquiries all day. I was basically an online agent of resorts. I eventually sold it, because of urgent need for money, but now more motivated than ever to build something scalable, with a larger geographic coverage, with streamlined business processes, user flow and an overall more manageable business model. I have over 3,000 PH resorts ready to be listed on the website and contacted as partners, who are more than eager to get onboard. It's a validated business model already. I actually won in Young Entrepreneurs Society's Startup Summit Philippines 2016 for this startup.

I'm looking for someone for the long haul, who will raise funds with me, who's looking to explore the beaches of the Philippines (let me show you around!), build a solid team of product devs, expand it to Southeast Asia, and the wordl. But of course getting a cofounder is like getting married, so we can explore things first, get to know each other while building an MVP and slowly grow it to its full potential. Please check out https://www.indiehackers.com/product/resortsgate I'm looking into taking this into the next level and on a global scale, starting with my country.

The Philippines, which has over 8,000 resorts, hotel chains and vacation rentals, has a tourism industry that is still in infancy stage of digitalization. So there's huuuge opportunity. Penetration of Agoda, Airbnb and Booking.com is very low here, and concentrated only to hotel room inventories, not resorts and villas.

Tourism took a hit this pandemic, and it's just now that it's getting back on its feet. Help me help thousands of MSME's in the Philippines by providing a sales platform for these resort owners.

Willing to shell out 50% equity (of course with vesting schedule) for a solid tech co-founder who's in it to win it!

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    Hi Benedict. Im pinoy, and into 360 virtual tours. I've built some projects similar to yours in the past that I've closed down. At one point I even had boracay360.com. I'm interested to hear more about this, will message you.

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    Hey Ben,
    We're both experienced full stack devs who are currently building something very similar to what you've described.
    We'd love to get in touch with you to discuss more details.
    I've already emailed you.
    Jake and Mike

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    Is there a presentation or something about the project?

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      Hi Gabo, sure I have a pitch deck. Will PM you on Linkedin

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