Multi-tenant lesson scheduling platform for equestrian barns. Built because a barn owner was drowning in scheduling chaos and every existing tool tried to do too much.
The equestrian barn management software market is dominated by tools that try to do everything — horse health records, breeding management, vet tracking, pedigree databases, invoicing, inventory, and somewhere buried in there, lesson scheduling. Platforms like BarnManager, Stable Secretary, and CRIO charge $29-$150/month for features that small lesson barns never use.
The barn owner I built this for had a specific pain: she ran lesson scheduling from a combination of text messages, a paper calendar on the barn wall, and a shared Google Sheet that nobody updated. Missed lessons, double-bookings, and no way to collect payments digitally. She didn't need a horse health database. She needed scheduling that worked.
95% of the 6,200 riding schools in the US are single-owner operations. They need a tool that matches their actual workflow — simple, mobile-first, and affordable. Not an enterprise platform that requires a training session to navigate.
SaddleSync is a multi-tenant Next.js application — each barn gets its own account, its own clients, its own schedule. Barn owners can onboard clients, set up lesson types, manage instructor availability, and accept payments. Clients can book lessons, see their schedule, and pay through the app.
I built it multi-tenant from day one because this isn't a one-barn tool — it's a platform. The first barn validates the product; barns two through fifty validate the business.
The competitors fall into three tiers: bloated and expensive (BarnManager, Stable Secretary, CRIO — $29-$150/month, feature overload), generic schedulers repurposed (eSoft Planner, BookyWay — functional but not purpose-built), and free but unsustainable (Equestria.ai — free-forever model that likely won't last). SaddleSync occupies the gap: purpose-built for lesson barns, affordable, and simple enough to use from a phone in a barn aisle.
SaddleSync is live at saddlesync.app. The first barn is onboarding for real-world stress testing. The product was conceived, architected, built, and deployed by one person — from identifying the market gap to writing the Prisma schema to configuring Stripe Connect to deploying on Vercel.
This isn't a design exercise or a prototype. It's a revenue-ready SaaS product with multi-tenant architecture, payment processing, and a go-to-market strategy targeting a specific niche with measurable market size.