Why PerchPoint
A watch service that refuses to touch the ticket
Anyone who has planned an independent trip around one anchor - the Inca Trail, a timed entry, a museum that sells out in minutes - knows the feeling. You build the whole trip around a date, you go to book, and it is gone. The advice you find is "keep checking." So you sit refreshing a government website for days.
PerchPoint does that watching for you. You tell us the attraction and the date. We check the official booking channel around the clock. The instant a slot opens, we send you a notification with a direct link, and you book it yourself, on the official site, at the official price.
Why we can never scalp you
The scalper model is to buy up scarce inventory and resell it above face value. PerchPoint is built so that model is impossible for us. We never buy a ticket. We never hold one. We never book on your behalf. We never take your payment for a ticket. We only watch a public page and point you to it. There is nothing to mark up, because we never touch the thing.
This is not a promise we could quietly drop in a future update to make more money. It is how the product is built. The moment we held inventory, we would be a different company.
What we collect: as close to nothing as we could manage
There is no account. No email required, no name, no login. Your watches are tied to a random token stored in your browser, and the notification channel is your own device's push subscription. We hold no profile of you and nothing that identifies you. If you clear your browser, the watches on that device are gone, because there was never a copy tied to a person.
The limits we build in on purpose
- No countdown timers, no "3 people watching," no invented urgency. The only real deadline belongs to the slot itself, and we report that as a plain fact.
- Cancel any watch in one tap. We never hide it.
- If a watch never finds an open slot before your date, we refund it automatically. You only pay when we actually help.
- We watch official channels only, gently, and we drop any attraction whose own terms ask us not to.
Which places we watch, and one we set aside
The attractions we are bringing online are the ones where a sold-out date can break a whole trip: Machu Picchu, the Alhambra, the refugios on the Torres del Paine circuit. You can try the mechanic right now on our clearly-labeled demo attraction, which opens and closes on a timer so you can watch an alert fire.
We built a working watcher for the Anne Frank House too, because it sells out weeks ahead and turns away people who genuinely want to learn there. On reflection we decided not to feature a Holocaust memorial as the front door of a commercial product, so it is set aside for now rather than promoted. If we ever bring it forward, it will be with the museum's blessing and the seriousness it deserves, never as a growth tactic.
We shorten the gap between a slot opening and you seeing it. That is the whole job, and we are careful about the rest.