About Us

Booking hotels should be quick, smart, and painless

Our calling

We want to help travellers spend less time, effort, and money when booking hotels

We do this by calling on our Terminator-like drive towards efficiency – and we will not eat, sleep, or die, until we bring users the maximum amount of value, constrained only by physics

If this unsettles you, you are correct. The app will be great though

The Founder

William Chen

Will is many things, but one thing he is above all else, is an efficiency junkie – he literally turns food and oxygen into ideas of getting the same or better outcomes with less time, effort, and money

His dedication to all things efficiency can be seen throughout his life:

He passed the GAMSAT (medical entrance exam) on the first go, with less than 2 months of prep (as documented in FastGAMSAT) – then decided that he can help more people and provide more value to the world through entrepreneurship

He goes everywhere with his headphones and podcasts, ready to plug up any unused time with learning

In 2024, while trying to book accommodation overseas, he was horrified by the inefficiencies of the booking apps, which seem to be stuck in the early 2000s, that make you enter your preferences every time you book – even though nothing might have changed since your last booking

Will noted all the Butterfly Effect implications of this inefficiency: Bookings delayed due to procrastination leading to paying more for hotels, time wasted on checking and choosing tick-boxes that could have been spent living life more meaningfully, and trips not taken because it was too much bother to book – and lives that regret what could have been

And it made him upset – so upset, that he had to go lie down for a while

Then he decided to do something about it – with an app that books stays in one fell swoop – an app that lets you swoop up stays as easily as magpies swoop cyclists, and crows swoop up $5 bills

SwoopStay, if you will

The App

We are building an app that cuts down your hotel search times to seconds

No joke, if you wanted to go from search to booking confirmation while holding your breath, you could with this app, without becoming David Blaine himself

The app achieves this, by letting you save all your guest and room and sorting preferences – ahead of time – in profiles called Occasions

You can have any number of Occasions – for any situation: Maybe one for Family Vacations, Business Trips, Romantic Getaways, Sports Away Games, Interstate Gigs (attending or performing), and so on…

And when you need to book, simply click the relevant Occasion on the Search screen (DisneyLand? Just click Family Vacations), and your preferences are instantly imported

No mess, no fuss – no need to customise preferences every time you book, or struggle to remember everyone’s preferences, or waste time browsing and considering every single tickbox, or wish you were doing literally anything else

The Future

Apart from the above core feature, SwoopStay is hard at work bringing even more hotel booking productivity to a phone near you, helping you:

Account for all your guests’ preferences in hardly any time, no matter if you’re booking for 5 guests, or 50 guests
Save more and more money on hotel bookings on autopilot – which may count as passive income
Maximise attendance for away guests, and earning you brownie points by saving them time and effort
Book hotels according to your calendar, itinerary, or event links, so you fit your accommodation bookings around your plans, not the other way round

Get The App First

The SwoopStay app is nearly here – be one of the first to know the exact second you can get your hands on it!

Contact Us

Have questions or need more information? Reach out to us at [email protected].