09/07/2026
Hostel Booking Systems That Actually Work: What I Learned Building One
Three years ago I sat down to build a hostel booking system from scratch. Not a WordPress plugin. Not a widget. The whole thing — bed-level inventory, payment processing, the works. I made every mistake you can make. Now I run a 14-bed hostel in Lisbon and I use off-the-shelf software because I learned the hard way that building your...