Open Startup
Real-time public stats on the platform we're building.
Traffic: Last 30 Days
vs previous 30 days: ↓ 89% visitorsWhere visitors come from
What we're shipping
Full roadmap →Recent milestones
Full changelog →Live multi-currency converter shipped
highReal-time exchange rates for 50+ currencies, refreshed every 6 hours from open.er-api.com. Available at /tools/currency-converter plus inline on pricing pages.
Talent directory expanded to 50 verified profiles
mediumPublished 30 additional talent profiles that met the quality bar (username + name set). The talent directory now shows 50 active freelancers across all categories. Counters on /open and the homepage updated to reflect the new total.
Jobs and gigs filtered to apply-path listings only
highRemoved jobs and gigs with no valid apply URL from all listings, sitemap, and detail pages. Improves feed quality and eliminates dead-end applications.
Gig pipeline launched: 4,000+ gigs now live
highPath A-selective gig promotion shipped. 4,003 gigs are now published and included in the combined jobs+gigs feed across /jobs, /gigboard, and all city pages. Combined total: 5,759 active opportunities.
Gig Apply CTA fixed - links now go to source listings
highFixed a routing bug where Apply buttons on gig detail pages were pointing at undefined URLs. All gigs now link correctly to their source application pages.
Venue card pre-computation shipped - city pages 10x faster
highAdded pre-computed venue_card_payload column to city_pages. Eliminates per-request venue joins on high-traffic city detail pages. Backfill running across 340K cities.
Crosslinks 3K → 61K (20x)
highcontent_linking_matrix expanded with bidirectional links: country↔cities, city↔similar-global, blog↔city, city→visa-calculator, city→categories, city→nearby cities.
All 340K Cities Now Scored
highEvery city has nomad_score (0-100) and expat_score (0-100). 996 cities scored 60+ as nomad-relevant. ~140 cities scored 70+ as top expat hubs.
Talent Dashboard Save Fixed + RLS Hardened
highowner_update_own_profile + owner_insert_own_profile RLS policies applied. Talent dashboard saves now work reliably (TBA-134).
Brand Logo Pack Delivered
mediumFull brand logo package: Design A (pure heart) in 6 colorways × 13 outputs, canonical pink-filled-on-white for /public/.
Why open?
The Booking Agency publishes its operating numbers, roadmap, and shipped changelog in real time on this page. We do this because most platforms in the talent and freelance space are opaque: visit count is invented, pricing is hidden until you're locked into a sales call, and roadmaps are treated as competitive secrets. We treat them as evidence. Every counter on this page is fetched live from the production database. Every shipped feature is logged with the date and a human-readable note. The intent is simple: a creator deciding whether to invest the hour to build a profile here should be able to see everything we know about how the platform is performing before they start.
Every shipped feature, fix, and decision is on this site, dated, and linkable. The roadmap above shows what's in progress, what's queued, and what's already shipped: counted from the same database row that ships the feature itself. No marketing-team filter.
No VC pressure to pivot or harvest users. Built by the founder, accountable to the talent, the clients, and the open-source community that uses the data layer. Tara Trade Intl LLC (Wyoming, USA) is the operating entity for compliance and payments.
If a number on this page looks wrong, file it via the "Report Issue" flag in the footer or email hello@bookingagency.io. The same goes for missing changelog entries: the log only counts what we remember to write down, and we'd rather over-document than under-document.
We believe in radical transparency. These numbers update daily.
Live database as of May 11, 2026:
Content scale
- 339,883 city pages in database
- 21,257 city pages with active content (published)
- 3,572,909 business listings across cities
- 239,260 travel and creator blog articles
- 165 countries
- 42 industry categories
Talent and jobs
- 49 published talent profiles
- 4,360 active English-language job postings
- 200 active gig postings
- 0% commission (we charge subscriptions, not booking fees)
Pricing (free-launch mode active until June 1, 2026)
- Freelancers: Free / Premium $9.99 per month or $99 per year / Pro $49.99 per month or $499 per year
- Businesses: Free / Pro $99 per month / Business $299 per month / Enterprise $999 per month
Revenue
Pre-launch. June 1, 2026 target.
Team
- 1 founder
- 1 co-founder (sales)
- Built with Claude Code
Stack
- React 18 + Vike SSR
- Supabase Postgres
- Vercel hosting
- Cloudflare CDN
- Stripe for payments
- Unsplash for imagery
Funding
Bootstrapped.
Roadmap
See /roadmap for what we are building next.
Why open?
Because most founder advice is filtered and we want to share real numbers as we build. Whether we succeed or fail, every number stays public.
Last refresh: May 11, 2026.
Stats refresh hourly. Last updated: May 19, 2026, 3:00 PM.