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Day #1Vertical Consumer SaaS / Booking Workflow ToolJune 7, 2026
The fastest way to book a multi-day Italian alpine hut-to-hut trek. Enter your route + dates + party, get 11 personalized Italian booking emails ready to send in 30 seconds — instead of 8 hours of copy-paste. Tracks who replied, who's full, and instantly generates fallback-stage emails when one rifugio rejects you. Wedge route: Alta Via 1 in the Dolomites (~50,000 hikers/year).
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Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + TailwindCSSPrisma ORM with SQLite for v1 (route + rifugio data + trip records)deployed on Vercel free tier. mailto: link batching for the 'open all emails' feature (no SMTP infrastructure needed in v1). Stripe Checkout for €19 payments. Static rifugio dataset hand-curated from rifugi.cai.it + SAT + AVS + private operator websites for AV1 only (manageable scope: 11 huts). React Email for templatingwith Italian-native phrasing reviewed against samples from CAI booking pages. Resend for the optional follow-up nudge emails. Mobile-first responsive (no native app).