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Productized software that ran their own No.1 rental chain
👤 Bjinse van der Zwaag, Arjen Oosterkamp & Johan van Zonneveld (Bjinse's camera-rental shop became the Netherlands' No.1 chain on software the trio built for it — then they sold that engine.)🌐 site

Rental software they built to make their own camera shop the Netherlands' No.1 — then sold to every other rental shop.

Will it work? · our read
Proven before sold. A rental back office made self-serve, plus a storefront. The real lesson isn't the app — it's dogfooding: they sold the exact tool that made their own shop No.1.
01How the money moves
Rental shop loads its inventory + availability
Adds a booking storefront; takes online orders + deposits
Pays Booqable $35-187/mo flat, or $29-149/mo billed yearly — zero cut of bookings
02The numbers
$2.8MEstimateest. ARR (Latka, 2025)
2025
the sentence on the page, Friesland , Netherlands booqable.com Other Collaboration Software Valuation $8.3M 2025 Revenue $2.8M (Est.) Funding $0 Team 25 Founded 2014 Company Revenue Valuation and Funding Founder and CEO…
about $3M
revenue/yr (est.)
$0
VC funding raised
37
staff · 16 countries
Booqable is private; the revenue figure is a third-party estimate, not disclosed. getLatka
About $3M/yr, bootstrapped, no VC (third-party est.)
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SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
booqable.com/about — 2009 origin at Budgetcam; 37 staff across 16 countries; bootstrapped.booqable.com/pricing — $29-149/mo tiers, no commission on bookings, storefront add-on.Crunchbase — no funding rounds raised (bootstrapped).getLatka — revenue estimated about $2.8M (third-party, not disclosed).Owler — revenue estimated about $3.2M, about 32 staff (third-party est.).
Revenue is NOT first-party disclosed — Booqable is private. Figures here are third-party estimates (getLatka about $2.8M, Owler about $3.2M, 2025-26); treat as EST, not confirmed, and note getLatka-style trackers can be off. First-party / Crunchbase-confirmed: the 2009 Budgetcam origin, bootstrapped/no-funding status, 37 staff across 16 countries, and $29-149/mo pricing. 'Netherlands' No.1 camera-rental chain' is Booqable's own about-page claim, self-reported. Rival prices are approximate. No drama invented — the real win is patient dogfooding plus productizing proven internal software. We never score you.