The story behind the project
I'm an indie developer based in Denmark. I built BookingStarter because I needed a booking system for my own rental property and couldn't find anything that gave me full control without monthly fees or platform lock-in.
After spending weeks building a complete booking platform - payments, contracts, admin panel, email notifications - I realized other property owners could save the same time I had spent. So I packaged the code into a clean, well-documented boilerplate that anyone can deploy and customize.
BookingStarter isn't a theoretical template. It's running in production on a real rental property, handling real bookings and real payments. Every feature was built because it was needed, not because it looked good on a feature list.
The stack is Next.js 15, Supabase, Stripe, and Tailwind CSS - modern tools that are well-documented, free to host, and easy to extend. The entire platform deploys on Vercel with zero monthly infrastructure costs.
Have questions or feedback? I'd love to hear from you.