Hey everyone, I’m the creator. As a host, we spent several days/weeks parsing through information to figure out the best location, price, and size for our current vacation property. The research paid off, but it was time consuming. After doing that several times for friends and family, we decided it was time to create a simpler approach.

Thus Hostology was born. I’m a self-taught developer, and I decided to give it a shot with what I knew. I used Ruby on Rails with Postgres and Redis for the backend, and Javascript for the front end. I learned a lot about how to efficiently digest json responses, but most importantly the importance of having automated tests early on (and running them often…)

This platform is in its early stages; I’m hoping to add more tools to help us hosts outperform our competition. Feel free to have a look and let me know if you have any questions.