Why I built Checkinator

I'm Hargun Wadhwa — an Airbnb Superhost running 8+ short-term rental listings across Delhi. Checkinator didn't start as a startup idea. It started as the tool I badly needed myself.

If you host foreign guests in India, you already know the part nobody talks about. Every foreign national has to be reported to the FRRO within 24 hours of arrival on Form C. On top of that, police rules expect a proper guest register with everyone's ID. Across eight listings, at all hours, against a 24-hour clock — that's a real grind, and the penalties for getting it wrong are real too. For a long time I was chasing passport photos over WhatsApp and squinting at the FRRO portal like every other host.

So I built the system I wished existed: one check-in link that collects every guest's details and documents, a police-ready register that fills itself, and Form C filing that goes from fifteen minutes of retyping to a single click. And because guests can book me direct through the same tool, I keep the commission too.

I'm not a founder who read about this problem in a pitch deck. I run the listings. I've raced the deadlines and done the filings myself. Having also studied abroad (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), I've been on both sides of that check-in desk — the foreign guest handing over a passport, and the host filing the paperwork afterwards. Checkinator is built by someone who actually lives this, every week.

If you host in India, I'd love to hear from you — it genuinely shapes what I build next. Message me directly on WhatsApp.