{"id":28773,"date":"2022-10-10T19:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=28773"},"modified":"2022-10-17T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:58:36","slug":"pet-free-hotels-is-now-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2022\/10\/pet-free-hotels-is-now-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet-Free Hotels is Now a Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some months ago, I told you about our idea<\/a> for a website that directs hotel-seekers with pet allergies to pet-free hotels.\u00a0 After weeks of cogitation, coding and hand compilation, this modest idea has become a modest reality.\u00a0 You and everyone else on the planet (well, except Iranians, Russians, North Koreans, Afghans, Yemenis and remote rural Americans) can now visit petfreehotels.com<\/a> to find over 800 U.S. accomodations sans<\/em> animalization.\u00a0 And — as I enthuse on the site — we are adding new locations all the time!<\/p>\n

It took me several weeks just to work out the look-and-feel and functionality of the site, which sadly had as much to do with my limited coding skills as the features that I thought users would appreciate.\u00a0 What makes it even more challenging these days is that one has to design and code two websites at the same time, since two-thirds of your visitors are using a mobile device instead of a desktop or laptop.\u00a0 The logo design also took a while, including the time spent researching whether someone already uses a smiley-pillows trademark.\u00a0 (Surprisingly, the answer is no.) <\/p>\n

Besides adding destinations, I can envision further enhancements to the site, such as maps that pinpoint the pet-free properties in a given metro area.\u00a0 Right now, it helps to know the names of the suburbs in the area you want to stay, which is too much work for most folks.\u00a0 I need to make mapping a bigger part of the user’s search experience.<\/p>\n

Down the road, I think PetFreeHotels will be a respectable, if decidedly amateur, website.\u00a0 Maybe it will bring in some advertising dollars, maybe not.\u00a0 It will serve its purpose until the day that Google or TripAdvisor adds a PET-FREE checkbox to their search filters.\u00a0 Then PetFreeHotels will be toast, its dander scorched, its fur singed.<\/p>\n

In any event, it’s not like I’m announcing a rebirth of Twitter or a re-imagining of TikTok.\u00a0 It’s just that Pet-Free Hotels<\/a> is now a thing.\u00a0 And it has earned $0.02 so far in ad revenue.\u00a0 That should pay for the next 100 or so pet-free hotel listings there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some months ago, I told you about our idea for a website that directs hotel-seekers with pet allergies to pet-free hotels.\u00a0 After weeks of cogitation, coding and hand compilation, this modest idea has become a modest reality.\u00a0 You and everyone … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28773"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28804,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions\/28804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}