Since 2009 helping to get direct bookings with @jomres booking engine π. Enhacement plugins, custom development, channel manager by Rodrigo Rocco @rrmdp
My mind still can NOT comprehend this
someone in Saudi Arabia Googles "luxury villas in Mallorca"
finds our short-term rentals website
and wires us 14,750 Euros to book a villa...
without a single phone call
TRUST is one hell of a business asset!
The internet is WILD!
Google -> Chatbox -> 19,500β¬ πΆ
(In the screenshot 50% payment)
it's for my short-term villa rentals biz
guests from Saudi Arabia had never heard of us before
yet they TRUSTED (this is the key) us with a high ticket booking
that's what SEO, branding, and trust can do
But sure... SEO is dead!!!
One thing that helped me get clients for my short-term villa rentals marketing business was Instagram
creating ads, images, and videos consistently then scheduling everything
I built my own tool to do it: PropertyDescriptionAI
Today I'm working on a complete landing page redesign to better show what it can do
Now tried the new @AlibabaGroup video model happyhorse-1.0 (using same prompt)
same, characters wrong: VillasMediterranean -> VillasMidtetranan
also lipsync is not good
for my use case: accommodation promo + text + audio
the best model it's Sora 2 but they are sunsetting
Do NOT SLEEP on AI citations!
I just got a lead from ChatGPT for my villa rentals biz
probably not the first one
but it is the first time a lead pasted the cited URL directly into the chat
A few things that probably helped:
> Strong SEO foundations
> Detailed landing pages with real information
> Pages focused on specific locations/intents
> Clear site structure LLMs can understand
> Consistent brand mentions across the web
> Content that actually answers user questions
AI search is becoming a traffic source.
Just tried Google Veo 3.1 model for my use case
used the same prompt (as per the quoted tweet)
I don't like the results (also fails with characters)
I have until September to find a new model
@OpenAI Sora 2 is so good, why are they sunsetting it? π
To get clients for this kind of high tickets
you need DISTRIBUTION
for my rentals biz, scheduling stories on Instagram helped a lot
I use my tool PropertyDescriptionAI to generate visuals and post on autopilot
not happy with its home page so working on a redesign
WDYT?
In luxury villa rentals, people are wiring thousands of Euros to someone they've never met
how do you build trust for high-ticket bookings online?
> Reviews
> Social proof
> Years online
> Loca expertise
> Detailed listings
> Fast human replies
> Transparent pricing
> Consistency everywhere
> Professional photography
> Social networks presence
They book because everything feels safe, real, and credible
They care about one thing:
"Can I trust this company with my holiday and my money?"
Everything on the website should answer that question.
I almost never tweet about my other project that makes money:
VillasMediterranean (holiday luxury villa rentals in Mallorca)
just remembered because we received a booking balance: 18,420 Euros
clients from: Kuwait
it still amazes me how internet businesses work
high-ticket bookings from someone on the other side of the world
they don't care about your tech stack
this site runs: PHP, Bootstrap 3 and jQuery
the TRICK is that you need to use all the tools to generate trust
only one thing matters: TRUST!
Hate it or love it, AI made this possible...
Every Sunday I take photos
Now I:
> drop them into my own tool (PropertyDescriptionAI)
> generate ad creatives instantly
> get captions written for me
> auto schedule Instagram posts
all for my short term villa rentals biz
So⦠are you adapting or still pretending this isn't happening?
I didn't plan to build these features⦠I needed them
While working on VillasMediterranean (my short-term rental business), I hit a limitation:
> I couldn't easily schedule posts using real photos & videos
> And carousel posts (which perform best on Instagram) were missing
So I fixed it π
New on PropertyDescriptionAI:
- Upload your own media (images & videos)
- Create & schedule Instagram-style carousel posts
Now I can mix AI + real content in one workflow
If you're posting properties (or any visual content), this saves a ton of time!
Demo π₯π
Great that Seedance 2.0 by @BytedanceTalk is available to everybody on @replicate
We all know it's a great model
but it fails with text
tried a few times
the prompt contains:
Text overlay : "Family Moments in Mallorca"
and it does:
Mallorca -> Maligora :(
Got a new villa for my rental business
Used to take DAYS to write the listing
Now I just:
1. Upload 20 photos
2. Set location & details
3. Click on "Generate"
And boom, perfect listing description
Huge TIME SAVER!
(Nope, is not Mythos!)
My first attempt at generating an ad video with Seedance 2.0
put it together in CapCut following @maxxmalist's approach
now waiting on @replicate to add it to their models so we can start integrating it into our products
I was happy with Sora 2 but unforunately is sunsetting
100% agree
Nano Banana is by far the best image model right now
(at least for my use case)
After integrating it into my product:
β Same prompts
β Same pipeline
β 10x better image quality
Been trying Grok Imagine model (Sora API is going to be sunsetted and I need for my product)
I like the output but it can't spell "VillasMediterranean" correctly
every generation I get the same "VillasMediterran*i*an"
misspell from"e" to "i"
cc Mr. @elonmusk@xai
I don't know id we devs are cooked
but me with ZERO Typescript knwnedge was able to make this changes happen with AI
Added to the Mallorca Itinerary Generator:
- Improved options
- PDF generator
- Used options for SEO
- Hero layout details with all the options
IMPRESSED π€―
Channel Managers π’
Just been linking Webiste <-> CM <-> OTAs for a client
If you know what you are doing is: a pain in the arse
If you don't know and need to figure out: *it's a fucking nightmare*
I undertand the complexity of it all but it should be way less compicated...
Claude and AI in general is like a superpower for founders like me
I don't know Next.js or Typescript at all, ZERO, NADA!
But I saw a GitHub repo that I liked and forked it
I forked it to use as a starting point for a pet project
It's a lead gen thing for my short-term rentals biz
The original code it was to generate tourist itineraries
and now I tweaked it to my needs so EASILY that is mindblowing!
for instance, it didn't have individual itinerary pages, or the itineraries wasn't getting stored
I don't even using a code editor in my laptop
I do it directly from the GitHub repo code editor (that looks exactly like VS Code)
and it had the AI chat on the right side
Also, it auto generates the commit messages, push it and deploy
It's like Sci-Fi!!!