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Dear Guest, Entry 2: the same little Roman house, one week of work later.
I build booking websites for short-term rental hosts in Rome, and they all answer the same questions for every guest. Dear Guest turns those answers into five postcards the host writes once. Each guest gets a house of their own: every window is a postcard behind shutters until its day, the intercom ("Ask the house") answers from the host's own manual, and the shop next door sells the extras.
What's new since Entry 1, after an outside audit:
- The guest's essentials (door code, wifi, directions and a button to call the host) sit on an enamel sign on the roof. Each follows its postcard's rule: the code only appears on arrival day. After dark, a spotlight lights each compartment.
- The postcards got the most care: brighter colours, white icons, a perforated stamp, and a terracotta window box under each one that flowers once the guest has arrived.
- The front door has its number above the arch, a travertine step and a lantern that lights up at night.
- A real person is one tap away: call or WhatsApp the host, separate from the AI.
- When the house can't answer, the host replies to that guest on their own page; adding the answer to the manual for everyone is a separate choice.
- On wide screens the extras live in the bottega next door, a lit shop window with the extras on display.
- The host's post office opens on what needs them, and every figure says exactly what it counts.
- The street came alive (paper clouds, a cat on the roof, neighbours), and all of it can be paused.
What runs by itself: bookings sync every hour from Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo calendars; every morning a postman delivers the postcards that are due; "Ask the house" answers with AI from the manual only and never gives away the door code; every night the public demo moves to fresh dates.
Built on Base44: entities with row-level security per host, backend functions for the guest page, calendar sync, postman, AI answers and the public demo, 3 scheduled workflows, and a React front end designed around one idea: the page is the house.
Host side, no sign-in: https://dearguest.bytelegion.site/host?demo
The postcards are such a lovely mechanic. The terracotta window box that flowers once the guest has arrived is the kind of detail that turns a utility into something people remember. The fallback design is really well thought out too, a real person one tap away while adding an...
Hello thanks 😄 The intercom forwards the question to the host when the AI cannot find the answer in the listing details
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Love this concept Valerio! Dear Guest Entry 2 — turning repetitive host answers into five postcards the host writes once is such a smart solution for short-term rental hosts in Rome. Super practical and charming. Love the Casa...
wow! i love the idea and design 😍
Thanks 😊
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