👋 Welcome

I'm Peter, and I build niche hospitality businesses.

My approach to business is to identify a very niche market and dominate it, ideally on a global scale.

I have numerous ideas every month, but I cannot execute them all.

So I decided to share some of them in my monthly newsletter. 

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What I'm working on

• ‍Surf Office
  We organize company offsites and team retreats. It initially started as a coliving space for digital nomads, then pivoted into a productized agency, and now I would describe it as a marketplace. We are a remote team of 30 people, fully bootstrapped.
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• ‍Hotel Nuggets
  I've always been collecting smart hacks that hotels can use to enhance profitability and improve the customer experience. Ideally both. I now publish them in this newsletter (“gosh, how many newsletters does this guy have?”). It became an amazing tool to promote Surf Office for hotels.
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• ‍Buy That Hotel
  This initially started with my idea to buy a small hotel in 2024. Not a rare dream for someone who has been in hospitality for 15+ years, right? Long story short, I didn't buy a hotel, but I learned that there is an opportunity to build a niche marketplace for buying and selling small hotels in Southern Europe.

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Projects I worked on previously

(I'm not actively involved anymore)

• ‍Pingotel
  I believed that there is a huge market for a minimalistic, nicely designed, and free software for small hospitality businesses. And I was wrong. The market is tiny and difficult to reach. The tool is working nicely and you can use it for free.
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• ‍Hoodpicker
  I studied geospatial analysis during Covid, trying to move my love for maps to the next level. Hoodpicker was my project for experimenting. It’s still a very popular tool for people researching where to live in Lisbon. I also learned about Webflow, which I later replicated in all my projects. 
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• ‍Epic Monday
  Supposed to be a marketplace for prefab houses. Even though it hasn't been updated for years, it’s still probably the most comprehensive list of prefab manufacturers. The little info products managed to pay my mortgage for some time. 
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• ‍Coworking Cabin 
  In 2018, I had an idea to build a glamping business using my own minimalistic cabins. I hired an architect, we built the prototype, and then I started searching for a factory to build them on a larger scale. Covid appeared, and I never came back to this project. But I still have that cabin. 
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• ‍Coliving for digital nomads
  I moved to the Canary Islands in 2014 and started a coliving and coworking space for digital nomads. We opened 2 more in Santa Cruz (CA) and Lisbon. Then things started to go sideways. 

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