About HostRev
Built for hosts who want better listings — without misleading guests.
HostRev exists because the gap between a top-3% Airbnb listing and a median one is almost never the property itself. It is presentation: photos, copy, and a clear story about who the place is for. We built the tooling we wished existed.
The story
From frustrated host to optimisation tool.
HostRev started when our founder, a host in the Netherlands, compared two near-identical apartments in the same neighbourhood — same square metres, same amenities, same price band. One was fully booked. The other ran at 41% occupancy.
The difference was not the property. It was the way the listing spoke. Sharper photos. A title that named who it was for. A description that led with a guest benefit instead of a feature list.
Hiring a professional photographer for every property costs €400-800 per listing and takes weeks to schedule. Rewriting listings by hand takes hours. Most hosts simply do not — which is why median listings sit at median bookings.
We spent six months testing the best AI image and language models against the playbooks of the industry's leading short-term-rental experts, Airbnb's own best practices, and real data from thousands of live listings — refined by years of hands-on experience managing rentals and multiple specialist courses. The result is HostRev: a one-credit-per-action tool that gives any host the same presentation quality as a professional revamp, in minutes — at a fraction of a traditional photographer's fee.
What we believe
Three principles that shape every feature.
Honest presentation wins long-term.
Misleading photos get bad reviews. We never add fake amenities, fake views, or fake rooms. Better presentation, same property.
Most hosts don't need a photoshoot.
The phone photos you already have, processed correctly, beat 80% of professional shoots from five years ago. We amplify what is there, we do not invent.
Data beats hunches.
Every audit is benchmarked against real listings in your neighbourhood, not city averages. Specific numbers, not vague advice.
Who is behind this
Solo-built, founder-supported.
Daniel Roorda
Founder · Builder · Host
HostRev is built and run by Daniel, an independent host and software builder based in the Netherlands. Daniel writes the code, designs the prompts, talks to early customers, and answers support email himself. No outsourced helpdesk, no AI chatbot pretending to be human.
For full transparency
What HostRev is — and is not.
HostRev is
- · A tool for hosts who already have a property and listing.
- · A presentation upgrade — better photos, sharper copy, clearer audit.
- · Airbnb-safe: we read public listing pages, we do not log in.
- · Transparent on pricing: pay-per-credit, no subscription.
HostRev is not
- · A property-management or channel-management tool.
- · An Airbnb partner, plugin, or affiliate.
- · A dynamic-pricing or revenue-management product.
- · A way to add fake amenities or mislead guests — we will refuse those edits.
Better data. Smarter decisions. More bookings.
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