“Here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

In the global blockchain market new projects appear regularly. We need to work hard and make progress every single day in order to survive among numerous competitors and flourish. That is why, in October we, at Populstay, accelerated our resources to enter the Japanese market as fast as possible.

Thanks to the support of our growing community, we managed to achieve great results in October. In this article we will summarize the progress regarding our product and community building. In the next article, which will be out tomorrow, we will summarise the progress related to new partnerships, presentations, advisors and investments.

Three, two, one…go!

Product

PopulStay is a decentralized home-sharing platform where guests pay less and hosts profit more. Commissions are lower compared to AirBnb. Why? Take a look at this short video we made in October:

How about listing your house or apartment on the PopulStay platform? Besides the platform itself, we are providing IoT solutions to add security and make your home-sharing experience more enjoyable.

Populife, which is a brand under PopulStay, is developing smart locks and smart keyboxes. If you set the smart lock on your door, you can easily use your smartphone to control the access to your property remotely.

Just set a sensitive pin-code for your guests for a certain period of time and let them in! Once the guests check out, the pin code becomes invalid.

Smart keyboxes can be used for storing traditional keys. You can put the keys into your smart keybox and set a pin-code. Once the guest receives the pin-code, the guest can take out the key and open the door. You can give access to your guest when you are not home. Easy!

On the 22th of November we will release the first draft of our product with real listings in Japan. You will be able to use the PPS tokens to book rooms or apartaments on the platform! The full MVP will be ready in the middle of December. We are happy to announce that the front-end design of the demo is finished. The design is as follows:

For more detailed information check our GitHub.

Community

In October, we created two new groups on Telegram for the English community and the Chinese community. We are against “deleted accounts” and spammers. We sincerely want to keep only real users and supporters in the community and build a community of people sharing the same values.

The community support has been strengthened so you are welcome to ask us any questions 24/7!

Starting from this month we are launching Airdrop to give the PPS tokens to the “early birds”. Some tasks will be added for getting extra tokens as well.

The tokens will be available for purchase on exchanges starting from 2019. Please join the community to stay tuned!