Hotel booking platform optimizing long-stay inventory and supplier margins
Stayforlong operates a hotel marketplace focused on stays longer than traditional tourism bookings, with infrastructure built on Go, Python, PHP, and Kafka across AWS. The company is balancing growth (500k+ hotels across 25 countries) against margin and profitability challenges—projects cluster heavily around catalogue health, distribution consistency, and supplier performance rather than new feature launches, suggesting operational maturity with internal efficiency as the current lever.
Stayforlong is a Barcelona-based hotel booking platform that launched in 2015 and has served over 3 million travelers. The product targets remote workers, digital nomads, families, and business travelers booking stays of days to months, competing on price transparency and flexible rate structures that reward longer durations. The company operates a distributed catalogue of 500k+ properties across 25 countries with 24/7 support and negotiates directly with hotels and suppliers. Hiring is concentrated in Spain across finance, sales, and data roles, with a small engineering team—consistent with a mature, supplier-relationship-driven business.
Backend built on Go, Python, and PHP; data infrastructure uses Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, and MySQL; deployment via Docker and Ansible; monitoring through Datadog and Graylog; all hosted on AWS with gRPC and Protocol Buffers for service communication.
Over 500,000 verified hotels available across 25 countries, with the platform serving more than 3 million travelers since 2015.
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