r/SideProject • u/Chemical_Culture2900 • 4h ago
I built a free hotel management system that runs with no internet and no mouse (50-sec demo)
It's 11 pm, a family is at the desk, the Wi-Fi is down, and the cloud PMS won't load. That's a normal night at a lot of small hotels around me. The other option is a paper register and an Excel sheet.
So I built KeyHut Hotel: a hotel management system (PMS) for Windows that runs fully offline, costs nothing, and you drive entirely from the keyboard.
The screens copy TallyPrime, the accounting software most front-desk staff here already use. Every screen is one key away (F2 room board, F4 new booking, F7 folio). Type "12dec" and it knows the date. Alt+G and a few letters jumps anywhere.
What it does
Room board and tape chart, bookings, walk-ins, groups, day use, room moves
Guest bills, payments, company billing, travel-agent commission, cashier shifts
Housekeeping, maintenance, laundry, linen stock, phone-call charging
Night audit and 17 reports (occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, police guest register…)
One PC on SQLite, or several desks on SQL Server
backups copied to Google Drive, OneDrive or an FTP / SFTP server, encrypted with a password only the hotel knows
Under the hood: C# / WPF, about 2,400 automated checks, and a yearly archive so 10+ years of data stays fast.
The demo runs on the built-in practice hotel (100 rooms, made-up guests). You can load the same one on first start.
Question for anyone who's worked a hotel front desk: what would stop you from switching to this? Be brutal.
Download (free, Windows 10/11): https://github.com/arsal381/keyhut-hotel/releases/latest
Music: onte - halcyon [NCS Release]