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• Daily Idea - Hotels for weeks

• Would you use this?

Hotels built for staying weeks

The One Liner

Live anywhere. Book hotels that actually work for weeks.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

A hotel search built for week-long stays. Filters for gyms, laundry, kitchenettes, and real livability, not just sleep.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem

Hotels are built for tourists. Apartments are built for residents.
But a fast-growing group fits neither.

People doing 1–3 week stints per city.
Founders, consultants, remote operators.
Anyone living a multi-city life without wanting to “rough it.”

The friction shows up fast.

A hotel looks great… until you realize there’s no real gym.
Or laundry means a laundromat three blocks away.
Or you’re eating every meal out because there’s no kitchenette.

Booking sites optimize for nights, not routines.
They tell you where you can sleep.
Not whether you can live there.

The Solution

A search platform built specifically for week-long (and longer) hotel stays, optimized for people who travel with routines.

Instead of asking “best hotel,” it answers:
Can I live here comfortably for 7–21 days?

You search by city and dates, but results surface what actually matters when you’re staying awhile: whether there’s a legit gym on-site or nearby, easy laundry access, a kitchenette or at least fridge + microwave, reliable Wi-Fi and a real desk, and neighborhoods where groceries and daily life are walkable.

Rates default to weekly pricing so discounts aren’t hidden.
Listings are ranked by livability, not luxury.
The goal isn’t a perfect vacation, it’s a stable temporary life.

How We’d Build It

Phase 1: Prove the pain
Curate inventory manually in a few obvious cities.
Use lightweight scraping for weekly rates plus human checks for gym, laundry, and kitchenette details.
Ship fast with a vibe-coded frontend (Lovable / Typedream / Webflow) and a simple livability score driven by structured inputs.
GTM: niche distribution - remote work Twitter, founder newsletters, consultants who already live this way.

Phase 2: Systematize signal
Layer in user feedback loops: quick “would you stay here again for a week?” signals.
Pull location context (walkability, grocery density, gym density) automatically.
Start partnerships with hotel groups that already offer long-stay discounts but don’t surface them well.
GTM: city-by-city launches, SEO around “weekly hotel stays” + creator use cases.

Phase 3: Scale the surface area
Automate inventory ingestion and livability scoring.
Expose weekly pricing clarity as a differentiator hotels can’t ignore.
Expand into corporate teams, creators, and repeat multi-city travelers.
GTM: repeat users + saved preferences become the growth engine.

Why It Needs to Exist
People aren’t traveling more, they’re staying longer.
Routine matters more than luxury.
Fitness, laundry, and a basic kitchen aren’t “amenities” anymore, they’re requirements.

The infrastructure hasn’t caught up to how people actually live now.
This is a search experience built for that gap.

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Would You Actually Use This?

Three people. Zero pitch decks. All lived experience.

The Multi-City Operator goes first.
“I live in hotels twelve, maybe fifteen weeks a year. The problem isn’t booking. It’s day five. The gym sucks, laundry is a pain, and I’m eating takeout because there’s no kitchenette. I don’t want luxury. I want my routine to survive. If a site told me, clearly, ‘you can live here for two weeks without hating your life,’ I’d use it instantly.”

The Skeptic isn’t impressed.
“I’ve heard this before. Airbnb already does long stays. Booking already shows weekly discounts. This feels like a founder who travels a lot building their own filter. People say they care about gyms and kitchens, but when it’s time to book, price wins. Are users really switching sites for a ‘livability score,’ or does this sound better than it performs?”

Then the Hotel Insider jumps in.
“The dirty secret: hotels already want these guests. Long stays are great for occupancy. The problem is systems. Rates are buried. Amenities aren’t standardized. No one internally is optimizing for ‘can someone live here for ten days.’ That said, hotels also don’t love transparency. If you surface weak gyms or bad laundry setups, some properties will fight you.”

Back to the Operator.
“I don’t need perfect data. I need fewer bad surprises. Even knowing there’s a real gym two blocks away saves me hours of research. I already do this manually across Google Maps, Yelp, and Reddit. If this bundled that thinking, it’s a win.”

The Skeptic pushes again.
“But do enough people do this to matter? Or is this a loud Twitter niche?”

The Insider answers quietly.
“Remote work made this normal. What’s missing isn’t demand. It’s tooling. Hotels weren’t built for routines. Booking sites weren’t built for weeks.”

So would people actually use it?

If you travel once a year, no.
If you live on the road and value routine over luxury, absolutely.

That’s the bet.

Not a massive consumer play.
Not a universal product.

Just infrastructure for a way of living that already exists and currently feels weirdly unsupported.

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