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HelpStay.com
helpstay.com
Where do a twelve-year-old work-exchange membership site’s 80,000 monthly visits come from?
Product at a glance
- What it is
- A work-exchange site: travellers give hosts a few hours of help a day in return for a bed and meals, and the site lets the two sides find and contact each other.
- Who it is for
- Solo travellers, couples and friends who want to travel on less pay; farms, families and community projects list as hosts for free.
- How it charges
- Travellers buy a yearly membership to contact hosts directly: €42.99 a year single or €51.99 for two, renewing automatically; hosts list free, and a few charge their own stay or project fees.
- Business model
- A one-sided marketplace: it charges travellers a yearly membership and takes nothing from hosts.
Revenue, last 12 months
$35.3K
$440K all time
MRR
$2,550
−3.6% in 30 days
Paying subscriptions
620
From €42.99 a year
Visits from email
18.1%
A weekly digest since July 2016
Revenue as of 2026-10-27 (public channels, daily)Report as of 2026-10-2201
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6 chapters, with every figure, post and source.
- ?With almost no ads, what brings the traffic?
- ?Run by essentially one person, what exactly does it do?
- ?Twelve years in, why is revenue falling?
- 01Product overview
- 02Marketing map
- 03The growth plays
- 04How it uses social
- 05Timeline
- 06What to take from it
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