TJHOTEL
TJ Hotel is a complete hotel booking website with everything a hotel needs to get online — room booking, guest reviews and ratings, and an admin CMS for non-technical staff. A personal project whose full build I documented as a YouTube tutorial series.
- 10k+
- Developers taught
- 24/7
- Online booking
- 100%
- Self-serve CMS
- 0
- Third-party fees
Middlemen.
A small hotel without a site lived on phone calls and commission.
Without the budget for a custom platform, smaller hotels funnelled bookings through commission-charging third-party sites or took them by phone at the desk. Reviews lived elsewhere, content needed a developer to touch, and owners had no live view of the business.
Built solo,
then taught.
A personal project I designed, built, and shipped end to end on my own — from the booking site to the admin CMS — and then documented the entire build as a YouTube tutorial series that has taught 10,000+ developers.
System design
Architecture, the data model, and the booking and availability logic.
Backend & APIs
PHP services, MySQL schema, guest auth, and the reservation workflow.
Frontend
The guest-facing booking site — every page and form built by hand.
Admin CMS
The full management panel non-technical staff run rooms and content from.
Booking & reviews
Availability checks, reservations, and the guest rating and review system.
Taught on YouTube
Documented the entire build as a tutorial series for 10,000+ developers.
4 sections.
one platform.
A public booking site, guest accounts, and a full admin CMS — everything a hotel needs to get online and run itself. Below, a guided scroll through each part.
Home page
Public-facing landing page that showcases the hotel with an availability checker, room highlights, facility overview, and guest testimonials.
4 screens
Rooms, About & Other pages
Supporting informational pages that help guests explore all room options, learn about the hotel, and get in touch before booking.
3 screens
Login & Register
Guest authentication flow allowing new visitors to create an account and returning guests to sign in to manage their bookings.
3 screens
Admin panel
Full hotel management CMS where non-technical staff can oversee bookings, manage rooms and content, moderate reviews, and configure settings.
11 screens
Calls I had to make.
Every module had a bottleneck behind it. Tap any decision to see the problem, the call I made, and what it changed.
Small and medium hotels struggled to build a professional online presence with booking, lacking the technical resources to compete with major chains and their platforms.
Built a platform with professional design, room showcase, a booking system, and guest management to establish a full online presence.
Let hotels compete online with a professional booking site and take direct bookings instead of depending on third-party platforms.
Now it runs.
A personal project built in two months — and taught to thousands. Here's what the platform does, and the reach it earned.
The complete build documented as a YouTube tutorial series for learning developers.
Guests check availability and reserve any time — not just front-desk hours.
Non-technical staff manage rooms, content, and bookings without a developer.
Direct first-party bookings, without commission to third-party booking sites.
Bookings, rooms, reviews, carousel, facilities, and settings — all in one CMS.
The public site, room catalogue, guest accounts, and the admin panel.
From phone calls and middlemen —
to a hotel that books and runs itself online.
Tools that shipped it.
Each platform layer has its own stack — chosen for the constraints of the surface, not convention.
Frontend
The guest-facing booking website.
Backend
The server powering bookings, auth, and the CMS.
Data & Infra
Where rooms, bookings, and reviews live.
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