StayFi
👤 Arthur Colker (An ex-consultant with a Columbia MBA who saw hosts lose every guest to Airbnb — the WiFi login was where to catch them.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Airbnb keeps the guest data hosts need to rebook. StayFi's splash-screen WiFi captures it at check-in instead.
Will it work? · our read
Sticky data. Owning guest emails is exactly what the OTAs withhold, so hosts pay to reclaim it — but nothing stops a host from cancelling once the list is theirs.
01How the money moves
Guest logs into the rental WiFi
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StayFi captures name and email
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Host pays monthly to remarket for direct bookings
02The numbers
$83.3K/moStatedMRR, about $1M/yr
2022
Counts are company-stated in the 2022 interview. Starter Story
$83.3K/mo (about $1M/yr) self-reported in a July 2022 Starter Story interview. Figures are 2022-era and likely higher now. Not audited.
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Revenue is from a July 2022 Starter Story interview: $83,333/mo (about $1M/yr), Starter Story's tracked figure, treated as a self-report, not audited — badge STATED, not FILED. Property and company counts are company-stated on the same page. Figures are 2022-era and likely higher now. No filings opened; founding year per Starter Story (2019). We never score you.