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Rativa

Competitor rate monitoring for independent hotels, built full-stack.

Please note: Rativa is an independent software product, shown as evidence of full-stack work beyond Shopify. No customer, revenue or adoption figures are claimed. The screenshots come from the public rativa.ai site and use its fictional sample hotels.

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Rativa: Full-page public website at rativa.ai, desktop. The product views on it use sample data.
Full-page public website at rativa.ai, desktop. The product views on it use sample data.Static screenshot, not a live demo

Overview

Rativa is a hotel market intelligence platform I built independently. It collects competitors' public room rates, shows them beside the hotel's own rate for the next 14 nights, and flags the changes worth a look.

Role and project type

Independent product. I built the web application, the database layer and the scheduling that feeds the data-collection workers.

  • Next.js web application
  • Supabase database and authentication
  • Data-collection workers
  • Pricing analytics and dashboards
  • Calendars, alerts and hotel management
  • Subscription billing

What I wanted to achieve

Independent hotels set their own rates but rarely have a revenue-management system. The aim was a quiet daily view of what the hotels guests compare you with charge for the coming nights, without spreadsheets or a dozen browser tabs.

Approach

  • The app runs on Next.js (App Router) with Supabase for Postgres, sign-in and row-level security. Most reads and writes go straight to Supabase, scoped per user and hotel.
  • A scheduled job queues collection tasks. A separate Python and Playwright worker, in its own repository and container, picks them up and stores the results for the app.
  • Data states are shown honestly: priced, sold out, no match, not checked and stale. A failed check keeps the last known prices rather than showing a zero.

Key features

  • Rates grid and calendar

    Nights by hotels, or a month view, with a detail panel for each night.

  • Alerts

    Price moves and sell-outs grouped by night, with an email digest after each check.

  • Rate advisor

    Rule-based pricing guidance for the next seven nights, with the working shown. Clearly labelled as not AI.

  • Performance

    Nightly rooms sold, revenue, ADR and occupancy alongside the market view.

  • Several hotels, eight languages

    Switch between hotels, each with its own competitors, alerts and schedule.

Technology

  • Next.js (App Router)
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Supabase (Postgres, Auth, RLS)
  • Recharts
  • Stripe
  • Vercel and Vercel Cron
  • Python and Playwright worker (Docker)

Contact

Have a Shopify project in mind?

Tell me about the store, the timeline and what you need built. I'll reply with an honest view on fit.