🚫 OTAs Suck ✅ Building a Book Direct, Decentralized, Open-OTA ➜ 🚀 Operators Get Direct Bookings ✈️ Travelers Get Rewards for Booking Direct 💰 Anyone Who Refers Travelers Owns Them & the Revenue Stream They Generate.

🐥 I'm a startup founder, launching a direct booking travel platform for the AI agent era.

Why? Today, Online Travel Agent (OTA) commissions are draining 10's of billions of dollars out of the travel ecosystem. They enrich "Big Tech" and "Big Travel", at the expense of everyone else. I know because I helped them do it. For years I was a super-affiliate of Expedia and other big OTAs. I fed $100m+ in hotel bookings to the OTAs, generating $10m in commissions, but adding little of value to the ecosystem.

Now, I'm building a new travel distribution platform and protocol that enables travelers and their AI agents bypass the OTA middlemen and book direct.

👇 Want to be notified when we launch? Leave a comment in the featured post below titled "AI-powered community", or reach out and connect! 

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Previously...

🐣 I co-founded a venture studio. We launched 3 notable ventures:
 
1️⃣ 3Genius International. Network of travel booking websites. $100M+ in bookings and $10M+ in gross profit.

2️⃣ Moola.com. Multiplayer game. Grew virally to 450k community members, $7.6M economy. PCWorld's “Best Places to Waste Time on the Web”.
 
3️⃣ Locationary. Local data and community platform. Rewarded users for crowdsourcing local business data (eg. like for Apple Maps). $4.5M in funding. Acquired by Apple.

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🧠 Current Interests: AI, community, machine learning, travel, fintech, loyalty rewards, web3 / tokens / blockchain, creator & influencer economy, social commerce, marketplaces, network effects.

Arlen Ritchie

Richlu Manufacturing

Built different Views, Dashboards, Reports for various roles with custom integration with different systems.
Built Workflows along with custom Scheduling tasks with different configuration setups and access rights.
Created and manitained integration with B2B services along with Acumatica ERP.
Integrating services with a cloud based ERP with an in-house Warehouse Management System.
Tech Stack: C#, Acumatica ERP, Kotlin, Ktor, SQL Server, Java
Worked directly with Stakeholders within the company.

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Project Lead for a team of 4, for creating a full stack application for the department’s graduate students.
● Tech Stack: C#, .Net 6.0, Blazor, JavaScript, React.js, Bootstrap, C, C++
● Utilized Open-Source library(Chart.js) for graphing capabilities in the app.
● Automated two key steps in the process, reducing the user involvement by 35%.
● Designed new algorithms for comparing DNA/Protein sequences from a specific file format.
● Created Dynamic Link Libraries for running C++ code along with logic of the app in C#.
● Identified potential roadblocks in key moments of the life cycle ensuring 95% deadline adherence.

Project Leader & Software Developer

Software Developer experience in Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin and C#.

Experienced in doing various Customizations in Acumatica ERP.Skilled in integrating B2B services with Acumatica ERP.

Currently trying to learn Golang and the concept of Structured Concurrency and CSP.

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