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Platform for booking leisure activities

I'm building a side project that tries to solve a problem that I personally face. At least in Lithuania many small leisure businesses (e.g kayak rent) don't have online presence to be able to find clients, and don't have knowledge or funds to build good-looking websites and onlin

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    Good problem that you identified. If I've understood correctly, you're effectively building a marketplace of people looking to do things and people offering things to do, correct? What's the go-to market strategy? I see it says "enter city." Will you go after cities in Lithuania at first? Will you focus on kayaking? I think that if you try to do all activities in all places right from the get-go it'll be harder than if you focused on one activity or one geography.

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      To add to what Chris mentioned, it would seem your biggest competitor would be TripAdvisor but their focus is on bigger cities and tourist locations. So your niche would probably be locals just looking to promote their service but don't get a ton of foot traffic. Another suggestion is to get their location through the browser (they will have to grant permission) to display activities or list all cities with activities. I entered multiple cities: NY, Sao Paulo, Montreal only to get the 'no activities found' message. Also, this might work really well as a mobile app as well.

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        You both make good points. Right now, there are no activities, and I will be reaching out to business owners, who would be potential first users here. I have though about narrowing the scope to just kayaking at first, as it's the most problem-affected leisure activity type that I've seen in Lithuania. Also it might help to first focus on Lithuania or even just it's capital at first, as it's much easier to reach out and build a relationship with business owners if they are from my home country.

        While what trip advisor or airbnb experiences do overlap to some extent with what I intend to do, I don't view them as competitors. They focus a lot on people traveling and wanting to experience local way of life. I want to focus a lot more on local people who just want to find something interesting to do with their friends on the weekend, or something for their office party for instance, something like exit rooms, kayaks, tree climbing, something like that - stuff that you don't normally do as a traveler :)

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          I find that the groupon style websites like dovanusala.lt have this covered already. At least that's what I use to find such activities. However, these companies are marketing themselves in the gift niche. Perhaps there's room for another kind of player.

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