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Hospitable

SaaS subscription · STR / vacation-rental ops · founded 2015 as Smartbnb, Belgium · community-funded
👤 Pierre-Camille Hamana (A Brussels host and coder who automated his own Airbnb messages, then kept it founder-owned - no VC, funded by users.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn

Pierre-Camille Hamana got sick of retyping Airbnb messages, so he automated them - now 18,000 hosts run on it.

Will it work? · our read
Quietly compounding. But the whole business depends on Airbnb's API and goodwill. If the platform tightens access or ships native automation, a $22M run-rate is suddenly at risk.
01How the money moves
An Airbnb host handles messages, calendars, and cleaning by hand
Hospitable links the listings and automates the busywork
Host subscribes from $29/mo per property, scaling with the portfolio
02The numbers
$22MStatedrun-rate, disclosed 2025
2025
the sentence on the pagecustomers across 119 countries with a remote team of 111 employees in 31 countries. The company reports $22 million in annual recurring revenue with 46% year-to-date growth and a 75% gross profit…
$22M
ARR run-rate
18,000+
paying hosts
$4.6B
host GMV 2024
$4.6B is what hosts earned (payouts) - not Hospitable's own revenue. Hospitable 2024 review
$22M ARR run-rate (self-disclosed 2025), 46% YoY, 75% gross margin - no VC.
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SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
Revenue ($22M) is Hospitable's own self-disclosed annual run-rate, announced with its Sept 2025 community-funding round and corroborated across trade press (The Host Report, ShortTermRentalz, PhocusWire) - first-party but not audited, so labeled STATED, not FILED. The $4.6B figure is guest payouts to hosts (GMV), explicitly NOT Hospitable's revenue. Founded 2015 as Smartbnb in Belgium, rebranded Hospitable in 2021. No drama invented: the platform-dependency 'dies' is documented by the founder's own public warnings about STR tech going 'pay-to-play.' Rival funding (Guesty $409M, Hostaway $543M) and Hospitable pricing come from public reporting and the live pricing page. Any interpretation is tagged [our read]. We never score you.