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I’m launching miniStay — bookministay.com
The idea is simple: why should you pay for a full night when you only need a room for a few hours?
We’re building a marketplace that makes hotel & apartment stays more flexible across Africa — by the hour, half-day, or overnight.
But great ideas only become real when people believe early enough to help build them.
Right now, funding is especially important to help us accelerate our hotels and apartments inventory, acquire early users, and get miniStay into the hands of the people who need it.
If you’re interested in funding, marketing, partnerships, or helping us onboard more properties and users, I’d love to hear from you.
Smaller checks are absolutely welcome. Every bit of early support can help us move faster.
Let’s build something useful for Africa. 🚀
@bookministay
#CryptoWithShola
🚨 HOTEL & APARTMENT OWNERS, THIS IS FOR YOU!
Your empty rooms are costing you money. 💸
What if you could turn those vacant hours into extra bookings and revenue?
Meet miniStay — helping hotels and apartments earn more by offering rooms for 6, 12, or 24 hours.
🏨 More bookings. Less idle rooms. Extra revenue.
We're onboarding hotels and apartments across cities in Nigeria!
🔥 Become a Founding Host today.
👉 bookministay.com/host-signup
Tag a hotel or apartment owner who needs to see this! 👇
#miniStay #HotelOwners #Hospitality #ExtraRevenue #NigeriaStartups
#EndSARS #LekkiMassacre
Own a hotel or apartment? 🏨 Don’t let empty rooms mean lost revenue!
List on miniStay and turn vacant rooms into earning opportunities.
👉 bookministay.com/host-signup
Know a property owner? Please share! 💙
#HallelujahChallenge
About three days ago, @Damilolawo1a made this post and I pitched @bookministay under it. 48hrs later, we have had:
- The most traffic to our platform since we soft-launch in September.
- Few numbers of bookings (still counting 😁).
- 2 new properties onboarded.
To me, this is more than a tweet. It's a further validation of what we are building and a great data source for our distribution.
To optimize our service, we are still onboarding boutique hotels and apartments across neighborhoods in all major cities in Nigeria. If you own/manage hotel or apartment, you can list them here, bookministay.com/host-signup
This is your appreciation post, @Damilolawo1a 🙏.
IF GAMES IS NOT LUCRATIVE
WE NEED NIGERIAN TEMU!!!
WE NEED NIGERIAN APPS CONNECTING AGENTS TO LANDLORD
WE NEED LOGISTICS THAT CAN DELIVER IN MINUTES THE WAY CHOWDECK DOES
WE NEED NIGERIAN AMAZONS
WE NEED APPS FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS eg plumbing , carpentry
WE NEED NIGERIAN YOUTUBE.
LEAVE FINTECH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEAVE FINTECH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEAVE FINTECH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEAVE FINTECH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEAVE FINTECH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEAVE FINTECH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’ll wanna make payment on some apps or websites, you’ll be seeing more than 7 payment options . Pay with verve . Paystack, opay, transfer , monnify, etccc
Exactly. Know your audience and reach them wherever they are.
MARKETING gets significantly easier when you stop trying to convince everybody.
The goal was never to sell to everyone. It’s to find the people who already have the problem your offer solves, make them understand why your solution is the right one, and sometimes help people recognize a problem they didn’t even realize they had.
Good marketing isn’t convincing everyone. It’s making the right people say, “This is exactly what I need.”
Yeah. I can relate 😁. But good Lord, we have solved the hard part @bookministay .
Hey guys, amazing meeting you all. Let's keep in touch on makermap 👇
building miniStay
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I'm Lekan, a Product Manager and builder.
I'm the Founder/CPO of @bookministay , Africa's premier marketplace for flexible accommodation bookings. With miniStay, you can book hotel and apartment rooms for 6 hours, 12 hours or 24 hours stay.
If you would like to work with me as Co-founder or Intern (unpaid for now), especially on marketing, growth, social media and fundraising; my DM is open.
Learn more on bookministay.com
Check out my other projects too, @cvclawai and @pickandwinai
I'm looking for a Growth/Marketing Co-founder for cvclawai.com, so I can go all out on @bookministay.
If you're good at marketing or have an audience in careers/remote jobs, this could be a great fit.
There's favorable equity split and profit sharing on the table.
Outright acquisition is also possible. Name your offer.
DM me if interested.
Well, we still need to cut our coats according to the available materials.
Employees didn't send us. That's the truth.
"He's a startup and he was trying to pay more than established companies. He's supposed to cut his cloth according to his size."
It's on this Twitter that we have dragged founders who paid their talent 200K and 150K.
If he had paid those too so to maximize their run way, we'd have dragged him.
It's well.
It's clear he took many decisions with good intentions, to do better than what's obtainable around here.
But his hubris now was trying to provide a comfortable working environment for a startup that should be rough and tough.
I'm Lekan, a Product Manager and builder.
I'm the Founder/CPO of @bookministay , Africa's premier marketplace for flexible accommodation bookings. With miniStay, you can book hotel and apartment rooms for 6 hours, 12 hours or 24 hours stay.
If you would like to work with me as Co-founder or Intern (unpaid for now), especially on marketing, growth, social media and fundraising; my DM is open.
Learn more on bookministay.com
Check out my other projects too, @cvclawai and @pickandwinai
🤖 Made with AI
I'm Benjamin from Nigeria 🇳🇬
A lifecycle marketing specialist and the founder of @Aikidotcom.
Worked on a world class project like Webtoons, reverse tech and many more.
Looking to connect with more marketers and founders.
Thanks you.
MMIA itinerary:
Land.
Queue.
Sweat.
“Oga your flight don delay.”
Sit like a statue for 5 hours.
Pay full night because hotels don’t believe in “I just need a shower and a nap.”
We believe.
6h / 12h / night. Verified rooms.
Your layover does not have to be a punishment.
bookministay.com
Tag the friend who always “dey wait for flight” like it’s a full-time job.
Unpopular opinion: full-night hotel pricing is a tax on people with irregular days.
We made the opposite. Flexible hours. Affordable. Verified.
If you’re in Lagos or Abuja and this sounds useful, go look: bookministay.com
I’m the founder. I’ll reply. The product account posts rooms. Hit follow on both.
Be honest: how many times have you sat in your car or at the airport thinking “I just need a clean bed and AC for 4 hours, not a full night rate”?
We built that. 6h / 12h / night.
Who’s been there? Drop the city. Lagos, Abuja, PH…
bookministay.com
#AskIceKingOchacho
I'm Lekan, a Product Manager and builder.
I'm the Founder/CPO of @bookministay , Africa's premier marketplace for flexible accommodation bookings. With miniStay, you can book hotel and apartment rooms for 6 hours, 12 hours or 24 hours stay.
If you would like to work with me as Co-founder or Intern (unpaid for now), especially on marketing, growth, social media and fundraising; my DM is open.
Learn more on bookministay.com
Check out my other projects too, @cvclawai and @pickandwinai
Happy new week,
I’m Benjamin, a Lifecycle & CRM Marketer
I help businesses design, acquire, engage, retain and reactivate customers through email and automation.
I work with Braze, Klaviyo, Customer.io, Iterable, HubSpot & Salesforce.
I also build emails with HTML/CSS/ figma and work with Liquid code.
If you need someone who understands both the marketing strategy and the technical side, let’s talk.
Tell us what you do ?
Two types of people I want on miniStay today:
1. You have a clean hotel or apartment room and you’re tired of it sitting empty.
2. You only need 6–12 hours, not a whole night.
Hosts list. Guests book by the hour.
Become a host or search a room: bookministay.com
Be honest: how many times have you sat in your car or at the airport thinking “I just need a clean bed and AC for 4 hours, not a full night rate”?
We built that. 6h / 12h / night.
Who’s been there? Drop the city. Lagos, Abuja, PH…
bookministay.com
#AskIceKingOchacho
Last year I was that person paying a full night because the hotel wouldn’t do “just until evening.”
Felt stupid. Built the thing I wished existed.
miniStay is still early. Some days the listings grow, some days I stare at the dashboard like “please book something.”
If you’ve ever needed a room for a few hours in Nigeria, try it and tell me what we got wrong.
bookministay.com