StayFinder
Find vacation rentals with no service fees.
What this is
Finds the direct-booking page for Airbnb-listed properties so you skip the roughly 18% platform fee, a savings tool for travelers rather than a rental directory.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Users search by city and dates or paste an Airbnb URL, and StayFinder finds the same property's direct-booking page on the host's own site, showing both prices side by side. A Chrome extension does this automatically while browsing Airbnb.
- What's different
- Surfaces the direct-booking price that skips Airbnb's roughly 18% platform fee, which the company says can be up to 25% cheaper.
- Pricing
- Free to use.
- Best for
- Travelers booking Airbnb-listed vacation rentals who want to check for a cheaper direct-booking option first.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 12 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Marketing. Launched 12d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #557. Today, it's been quiet for 8 days and the price has started to bleed.
Already bleeding a little every day, and it accelerates the longer it stays quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #557 on PeerPush with 4 votes. It also showed up on 2 other boards — but didn't place well enough on any of them, so none of them add to the price. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 1 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 13 olay var. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
No names, on purpose — a call is worth what it turns out to be worth, not who made it.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
StayFinder — find the direct booking price for any Airbnb That Airbnb price you're looking at? Roughly 18% of it is platform fees — you just can't see them anymore, because they're baked into the nightly rate. And here's what most travelers don't know: a huge number of those exact same properties can be booked directly on the host's own website, often up to 25% cheaper. The hard part has always been finding those direct booking pages. There are two ways you can use StayFinder: 🔍 Search on stayfinder.com — search by city and dates, or just paste in an Airbnb URL, and we'll find the property's direct booking site and show you both prices side by side. ⚡ Chrome extension — browse Airbnb like you normally would. When you open a listing, StayFinder automatically shows the direct price right there on the page. One click takes you to the host's site to book. Why trust the hosts? Every listing is run by a professional property manager, and verified hosts carry trust badges so you know who you're dealing with. You book on their site, they handle your reservation directly — same property, same host, just without the platform markup. Cost: Free. Genuinely free — no account, no signup, no email required. Install and go. Best for: longer stays and family trips where fees really add up, rebooking places you've stayed before, or anyone who just wants to know the real price of a rental before committing. We built this because vacation rental pricing shouldn't be a shell game. The fees didn't go away — they just went invisible. StayFinder makes them visible again
Where it launched
3 platforms| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPushstrongest | 4 | sets the price | ↗ |
| OpenHunts | 4 | no | ↗ |
| Peerlist | not published | no | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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