$7500/Month Solving a Common Travel Headache

✈️ Flywize is an online service that helps you claim compensation from lost or delayed flights.

Best I can tell, the site launched within the last 2 years and the homepage is still in Slovakian, the native language of the founder 🇸🇰

Her story…

Olga Marekova never set out to become a founder. In fact, she wasn’t looking to build anything at all—she just wanted a service to exist that could help people get compensation when their flights were delayed or cancelled. 

When she realised most passengers were entitled to hundreds of euros and had no idea how to claim it, she started helping friends for free. That eventually turned into Flywize, a bootstrapped SaaS that now brings in $7.5K/month.

Sounds like it was a manual service that eventually became a web app, Olga figuring out how to build it as she went along 🧐

Flywize now helps recover €20-30K per month in airline compensation, taking a 30% cut. It has served over 2,000 passengers, mainly in Europe, and recently expanded to help users in the UK and US.

I could see this becoming a huge business.

And I like how Olga started off with a manual service to validate the idea 😎

What’s a manual service you can provide that could eventually be turned into an app?

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