Idea: Bus Tourism Company Discovery & Booking Engine Crawler
Status: PARKED — Sales intelligence tooling. No immediate priority. Origin: Relocated from TODOS.md (former §7 — Marketing & Growth) during a TODOS pruning audit (2026-05-11).
Concept
Build tooling that automatically discovers bus tourism companies (via Google Maps API, industry directories like RDA, or web scraping) and crawls their websites to identify their booking engine.
Detection Strategies
- Inspect page source for known booking widget signatures (e.g., Kuschick, Turista, Busreisen24, custom iframes)
- Check for characteristic URL patterns, script tags, or API calls
- Classify results into categories: custom-built, known SaaS, no online booking
Output
Store results in a structured dataset for sales outreach prioritization. Define: crawl frequency, rate limiting, robots.txt compliance, and output format (CSV / dashboard).
Why Parked
Competitive intelligence tooling is valuable for sales prioritization but the core platform takes precedence. Revisit when the sales pipeline matures and outbound targeting becomes a bottleneck.