BetterGuest
BetterGuest is a guest-first vacation rental marketplace. Members take a guest pledge and book directly with hosts at a member price, and hosts approve each request. Better places, better people, better stays.
Product context
Direct booking, with nothing made up.
The platform launches with real homes from a real host, imported from the host's own site, and shows only what each listing actually publishes. Where a fact isn't known yet, the page says so instead of filling in a default.
COET's contribution
Real inventory
Every home on the site is imported from the host's own listings, with no sample homes anywhere.
AI search on an open model
Guests type what they want in plain words. A self-hosted open model turns it into filters the search engine checks, so it can't invent a home.
Photo tours
A tour service turns each home's own photos into a short cinematic walk-through, with depth-based camera moves, inside rooms first and outside views last.
Skip or Stay
A swipe deck for discovery: swipe right to save, left to skip, ordered for each guest.
Quick Take and House Rules
A plain read on who a home suits, built only from the listing's facts, and its house rules in one overlay.
Agents and the app
A read-only connector so assistants like Claude can search stays, and an iPhone app shell over the same site.
Discovery
Find your kind of getaway, in your own words.
The search bar understands a sentence. The model only proposes filters; the search engine decides what matches, so results are always real homes.
Photo tours
Every home gets its own short film, made only from its photos.
A depth model gives each photo a little parallax, the camera eases through the rooms and steps outside at the end. Tours render on their own service and stream from storage.
Is it a fit?
Strengths and things to consider, without a single invented claim.
Quick Take writes a short read on who a home suits from the listing's own facts. Each line cites the fields it rests on.
Skip or Stay
Swipe to decide.
Right saves to your wishlist and left skips. Each guest's own deck is ordered for them, without ever changing where a host ranks for anyone else.
The night map
Every home on one globe at night.
Zoom in from the whole world to a street. A different way to browse when you know the feeling but not the town.
Key features
- 01
Member pricing
Members see the member discount on every home.
- 02
AI search
Plain-language search on a self-hosted open model.
- 03
Photo tours
A short film of every home from its own photos.
- 04
Skip or Stay
Swipe discovery, ordered for each guest.
- 05
Quick Take
Fact-only strengths and things to consider.
- 06
Agent access
A connector so assistants can search stays.
Results
- 13
real homes live, each with its own photo tour
- 398
automated unit tests passing on the platform