Transcript Accommodation

Accommodation-Store.com
[ Towards an international, web-based accommodation
booking franchise network ]
Dániel Leskó
About me
 PhD research:
„Using static analysis for property based testing of functional programs”
 Research topics:
 Testing, automated test data generation
 Functional programming
 Embedded language design, compilers
 Research project participations:
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Test data generation based on typed λ-calculus
Comment preserving architecture in F#
Feldspar: Functional embedded language for digital signal processing
Miller: a memory oriented language
My Project
An accommodation booking system, targeting mostly
non-commercial private houses, apartments.
 History
 Started in 2009 as a hobby project
 2011. November: Official start as a real venture
 Present
 3500 visitors, 200 inquiries, 10-15 confirmed bookings / day
 Plan (Accommodation-Store.com)
 Export this success to other (EU) countries/regions
 Franchise network:
 We: web-related back-end + teaching material
 Franchisee: marketing + front office
(technical)
(non-technical)
Connections
 Relevant action line:
Networking Solutions for Future Media and Internet Technologies and Architectures
 Business modeling, Opportunity recognition, Raising
Awareness courses helped me to
 develop a proper mind-set
 believe in myself and my idea
 accept that failure can happen
 Planned organizational mobility: start-up
(SzállásKérés.hu; Accommodation-Store.com)