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StayFinder
Find the lower direct booking price on any Airbnb listing
Vacation rentals are often cheaper booked direct — but finding the direct listing means guessing, searching, and copy/pasting URLs. The StayFinder Chrome Extension does it for you. Browse Airbnb like normal and the extension automatically surfaces the direct price, side by side with what you're already looking at. Compare at a glance, skip the platform fees, and book direct. No manual searching. No guesswork. Just the the lower direct booking price.
A lot of people have figured out that booking vacation rentals direct — cutting Airbnb out of the transaction — is a great way to save money. The problem is that actually finding the direct listing is really hard. You've got a listing in front of you, you know there's probably a direct site somewhere, and the only way to find it is reverse-image-searching photos and guessing at property names. Nobody does that. You just book on Airbnb and move on.
And if you didn't know: Airbnb now charges hosts a 15.5% service fee on every booking in most markets. That replaced the old model, where hosts paid 3% and guests paid a separate service fee at checkout. Sounds like a win for guests, except the money didn't go anywhere — to keep the same payout, a host has to raise their listed price about 18%. The commission is still there. It just got baked into the price you see, where you can't spot it.
That same property often has a direct site with no commission attached. Same house, same dates, same host, lower price. You just never find it.
So we built StayFinder. It's a free Chrome extension that browses along with you on Airbnb and shows the direct price side by side with the listing you're looking at. If direct is cheaper, you see exactly how much. If it isn't, you see that too, and you book on Airbnb knowing you didn't leave money on the table.
Why us: I'm the founder of StayFi. We've spent years helping short-term rental operators build direct booking channels. They'd launch great direct sites with better rates, and guests would never find them. Both sides wanted the same thing and there was no bridge between them. StayFinder is that bridge.
The hard part wasn't comparing prices. It was property matching — figuring out with confidence that this Airbnb listing and that direct site are the same house, from photos and messy metadata. We've matched over 100,000 Airbnb listings with cheaper direct booking listings and we are adding 1000s every month.
About StayFinder on Product Hunt
“Find the lower direct booking price on any Airbnb listing ”
StayFinder was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #102 on the daily leaderboard. Vacation rentals are often cheaper booked direct — but finding the direct listing means guessing, searching, and copy/pasting URLs. The StayFinder Chrome Extension does it for you. Browse Airbnb like normal and the extension automatically surfaces the direct price, side by side with what you're already looking at. Compare at a glance, skip the platform fees, and book direct. No manual searching. No guesswork. Just the the lower direct booking price.
On the analytics side, StayFinder competes within Chrome Extensions, Travel and Vacation — topics that collectively have 102.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how StayFinder performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted StayFinder?
StayFinder was hunted by Arthur Colker. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of StayFinder including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Arthur Colker