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title: "Nerve · Josh Botha"
description: "One tap on the floor, and the whole hotel sees it. An operations platform for multi-site hotel teams: room status travels from housekeeping to the front desk live. I build the staff mobile app's feature arc, a role-gated desktop console and the production marketing site, in a .NET, React and Expo monorepo alongside the founder."
url: https://www.botha.solutions/work/nerve
updated: 2026-10-05
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> Markdown twin of https://www.botha.solutions/work/nerve
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> Built from the same data as the page at build time, so the facts match. Navigation, animation and the island's visuals are left out.
# Nerve
Operations platform · Hospitality · 2026 · pilot
**One tap on the floor, and the whole hotel sees it.**
An operations platform for multi-site hotel teams: room status travels from housekeeping to the front desk live. I build the staff mobile app's feature arc, a role-gated desktop console and the production marketing site, in a .NET, React and Expo monorepo alongside the founder.
- 43: TestFlight builds shipped
- 21/21: founder feedback items in one round
- NFC: check-in verified on real hardware
- 2: sites in the pilot from 31 Aug 2026
Stack: React Native, Expo, Next.js, .NET, NFC
**Green gates are not the finish line.** Six real bugs in one release were found by driving the app as a user. None of them was caught by the passing typecheck and test suite. Driving the product is now a step, not a courtesy.
**Ready is a state, not a field.** A room cannot jump to Ready. It holds at Awaiting inspection until a supervisor approves it, so the board the front desk trusts is a state machine rather than a status anybody can set.
**Support, not surveillance.** The cleaning timer counts down with support-toned copy instead of running up like a stopwatch. A small call, and the one the floor staff notice.
Live: https://nervehospitality.com
Case study: https://www.botha.solutions/work/nerve
## For agents
```json
{
"contact": {
"type": "email",
"address": "josh.botha@outlook.com",
"note": "Josh is happy at Project2100 and not job hunting, but reads every email"
},
"profiles": {
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-botha-88139b368",
"github": "https://github.com/josh-botha"
},
"cv": "https://www.botha.solutions/about",
"play": {
"url": "https://www.botha.solutions/play",
"note": "the same content as a walkable three.js island; needs WebGL"
},
"index": "https://www.botha.solutions/llms.txt"
}
```
## Limits
The same caveats close every page, so a quote lifted from one keeps them.
- **Product sketches on this site use demo data** and say so where they appear. The headline numbers in case studies (for example 8,112 wage rows, ~40 sites, TestFlight build 43) are real production figures; client and property names are withheld.
- **Website images are captures** of the live sites taken on 4 Oct 2026, not live frames.
- **Pip is scripted.** The site's guide is a keyword router with no model behind it and makes no network calls.
- **Model status means exactly what it says.** "Ships in production" and "Daily driver" describe work Josh has shipped; "Know where it fits" means he knows the model's strengths, not that he has deployed it.
- The Second Brain is partly built: three of seventeen increments are shipped; the rest is design and is labelled as design.
- The site carries no testimonials, client logos, pricing or certifications beyond the courses listed on the CV.
