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Suite Space: an empty chair on a Tuesday earns nothing, so we built the marketplace that rents it out by the hour.

A marketplace for the space small businesses already pay for. A salon, a barbershop, a tattoo studio, a nail bar or an office lists the venue once, then every chair, booth, station or suite inside it, each priced by the hour, the day, the week and the month. Renters search a city, book the exact window they need, and the host says yes or no. The owner's commission comes off the top of every booking at a rate set in the console.

Applied 9:36am, paid 12:38pm, live 2:11pm, one Tuesday Four prices on every chair: hour, day, week, month Three hosts blocking the same person suspends them
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Suite Space
Derek Lindsey · built by The App You Want
Search a cityHour, day, week, monthHost approvesBlock and strikeCalendar and closuresCommission off the top
Real screens
Find a space to work from: city Atlanta, search box, renting by the hour, day, week or month, chips for salon chair, barber chair and private salon, then a sample hot desk card with its photo and prices
The searchPick a city, pick how long you need it, and only the spaces priced that way show up. A chair priced by the day does not clutter a search by the hour. Sample listings shown.
Chair 3, front window at Peachtree Cuts: $35 an hour, $160 a day, $700 a week, a dash for the month, a Book it button, then the chair's description and amenity chips
The spaceFour prices on one plate, and a dash where the host does not rent by that length. Amenities, hours, minimum booking and house rules under it.
A host's booking sheet: Station 2, mirror wall, Tue Sep 8, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, $40 an hour times 4, the Suite Space commission, the host's payout $136, the renter's note, then Approve this booking, Decline, and Block from your spaces
The host decidesThe window, the money split, the renter's note, and three buttons. Approve, decline, or block this person from every space you have.
A host's Spaces tab: The Gilded Room, a salon in Atlanta, with Station 2 priced $40 an hour, $180 a day and $780 a week, and Suite B priced $950 a week and $3,200 a month
The host's spacesOne venue, every bookable space inside it, each with its own four prices. Add a space, add a venue, edit any of it.
Your trips: a confirmed day at Chair 3, front window on Fri Sep 4, $160 total, and an earlier two day hot desk booking marked finished and settled direct
The renter's tripsEverything booked, what is confirmed, what still needs paying and what is done.
A host's Guests tab: one renter with one booking and a Block button, and the rule that anyone blocked by three different hosts is suspended from Suite Space entirely
Guests and blocksEvery renter who has been through your spaces, with a Block button. Three hosts blocking the same person and they are out of the whole marketplace.
See it live

Suite Space is live

It runs in the browser and installs from it on any phone, no app store. Sign in is an emailed six digit code. A renter's contact details unlock for the host only once the booking is confirmed, and an operator console shows the whole marketplace: members, hosts, venues, spaces, every booking and the commission on each one.

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The challenge
"Business suites, salon, tattoo, nails, etc. Similar to Airbnb."

That was the application, at 9:36am on a Tuesday. The gameplan call was at noon. The shape was clear by the end of it: the people who own a salon, a barbershop, a studio or a floor of offices are paying rent on chairs and rooms that sit empty, and the people who need a chair for a Saturday, a booth for a guest week or a desk for a month have nowhere to find one. Airbnb, but the unit is a chair, and the clock runs in hours, days, weeks and months.

The offer went out at 12:19pm. Paid at 12:38pm. The name came through by text three minutes later. Live at 2:11pm, with sample venues in it so the owner could see a search, a booking and a host's approval before listing anything of their own.

What we built
A two sided marketplace with the owner's cut built in.
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List once, price four ways

A host adds the venue with photos and house rules, then each bookable space inside it. Every space carries its own hourly, daily, weekly and monthly price, a minimum booking, open days and hours, and instant book or approval.

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Search by the clock

Renters pick a city and how long they need the space. Only spaces priced by that length show up, and if a space is priced another way the app says so with one tap to switch. Every card shows the plate of prices before the tap.

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The host decides

Every request lands with the window, the split and the renter's note. Approve, decline or block. A blocked renter cannot book any of that host's spaces, and three blocks from three different hosts suspends them from the marketplace.

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Commission off the top

The owner sets the rate once in the console. Every booking records the rent, the commission and the host's payout on its own line, and the console totals the marketplace: members, hosts, venues, spaces, bookings and what Suite Space has earned.

The signature feature
Four prices on every chair, and a search that only shows what is priced your way.

A salon chair is worth one thing for a Saturday and another for a month, and most hosts do not want to rent it every way. So every space carries four prices with a dash where the host does not go. The renter picks hour, day, week or month first, and the search only shows spaces priced that way, with a note when the one they wanted is priced differently. A day booking is that shop's day in that shop's own timezone, and a host can close any dates on a calendar per space.

Hour, day, week, monthA dash where you do not goSearch by lengthClosures per space
How it moved
Applied in the morning, paid at lunch, live by mid afternoon.
1 Sep
9:36am, the application: business suites, salon, tattoo, nails, similar to Airbnb. 12:00pm, the gameplan call. 12:19pm, the offer in writing. 12:38pm, paid. 12:41pm, the name, by text: Suite Space. 2:11pm, live: venues, spaces priced four ways, city search, booking windows, host approval, blocks and strikes, and the commission off the top.
2 Sep
Suite Space gets its own address, suitespace.theappyouwant.com. A day booking is that shop's day, in that shop's timezone. The search says when a space is priced by another length and switches in one tap. The app installs to the home screen from Share.
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