Finding a flat in Bangkok from six thousand miles away.
Thaibnb is a search platform for long-stay rentals in Thailand — condos, villas and houses in Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai and on the islands — aimed at French-speaking renters, with a concierge who takes them through to the keys.
Listings are gathered from where the Thai rental market actually lives, then cleaned into a consistent shape: type, term, location, beds, bathrooms, floor area, and a monthly rent shown in euros with the baht figure underneath.
Everyone in this market hides their margin inside the price.
The standard model for a foreigner-facing rental site is to take the local asking rent, quietly add a margin, and show the inflated number as if it were the price. It works right up until the renter meets the landlord and discovers what the flat actually costs — at which point the agent looks like what they are.
The other problem is more ordinary: the source listings are a mess. They come from social posts, in Thai, with inconsistent everything — no standard fields, no standard photos, no standard way of saying how big a place is.
Show the honest number and move the fee off the page.
The decision that shaped the product: display the landlord's real asking rent, rounded but not marked up, and take a single flat fee for the concierge service — quoted privately, never folded into the price on screen. It costs the obvious revenue trick and buys the one thing this market does not have, which is a price the renter can trust when they arrive.
The listing card is the whole design problem in miniature. From messy source data it has to produce something scannable and comparable, so every card commits to the same fields in the same order, converts to euros for an audience that thinks in euros, and keeps the baht figure directly beneath so nobody is working from a converted number alone.
The site runs French-first with a full English version, and a currency toggle — because the people using it are living between two of each.
Live, with a catalogue that refreshes itself.
Thaibnb is in production across Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai and the islands, with listings kept current by a scheduled pipeline rather than manual entry — which is the only way a two-person operation keeps a rental catalogue from going stale.
