How I'm building onHotelier from the Heart of Uttarakhand 🌄

Pailag 🙏🏻

I’m Abhishek, and I come from Uttarakhand.

Growing up here, I’ve seen how deeply tourism is connected to people’s lives. Every year, more than 6 crore tourists visit Uttarakhand, but behind every trip, every mountain stay, every peaceful weekend, there are local hotel owners and homestay hosts working tirelessly to make guests feel at home.

Over the last few years, I’ve seen more and more families across Uttarakhand open homestays, guest houses, and small hotels. Some are converting ancestral homes into stays. Some are building livelihoods in remote villages where tourism has created new hope.

But I’ve also seen how difficult it is to run these properties.

If you run a homestay or hotel, you probably know this feeling already — handling guest calls late at night, managing OTA bookings manually, updating room availability on WhatsApp, dealing with operations during peak season, and somehow trying to market your property online at the same time.

Most independent properties are doing everything manually.

And honestly, many of them are doing an incredible job with hospitality, but without the tools they truly deserve.

I’ve stayed at places where the owner was managing bookings while also preparing food for guests. I’ve seen beautiful properties struggle simply because they didn’t have access to the right systems or visibility online.

That’s why I started building onHotelier.

Not as another software company, but as a platform built from the ground reality of independent hospitality businesses.

My goal is simple:
To help hotel owners and homestay hosts run their properties without chaos.

From managing bookings and guests to improving visibility online, I want to build tools that are simple, practical, and actually useful for the people running hospitality businesses every single day.

I genuinely believe the future of hospitality in India will not belong only to large hotel chains.

It will also belong to independent hosts, family-run homestays, boutique stays in the mountains, and people building honest hospitality businesses from their hometowns.

And if onHotelier can help even a small part of that journey, it would mean a lot to me personally ❤️

We are still in the early days. Right now, I’m spending most of my time talking to property owners, understanding operational challenges, and learning how hospitality really works on the ground.

So if you run a hotel, homestay, hostel, villa, or any hospitality business, I would genuinely love to connect with you and hear your story.

We’re just getting started - from Uttarakhand to the World 🌎