# Pegly — full context

> Pegly is an online booking platform for paid fishing lakes. Lake owners get a bookable page with an interactive map in an evening — no developer, no upfront cost. Anglers pick a date and session, choose a free peg on a live map, and book in under a minute — no phone calls, no messaging, no account.

## What Pegly is

Pegly is a SaaS platform for booking fishing spots at paid fishing lakes. A lake owner creates an interactive map of their water body, places numbered pegs (spots/sectors) on it, sets sessions and prices, and gets a public bookable page. Anglers open that page, pick a date and session, choose a free peg on the map, and book it — so the owner stops managing bookings by phone and messaging apps.

The launch value is operational, not traffic: go live in an evening, no developer needed, no upfront cost, nothing to maintain. A shared cross-lake discovery map is a long-term goal, not a launch promise.

## How booking works (anglers)

1. Open a lake's page (e.g. https://pegly.io/p/{slug}).
2. Pick a date and a session. Sessions are configured per lake (for example day, night, or a full 24h) — they are not fixed globally.
3. The availability map shows, in real time, which pegs are free or already taken for that date and session.
4. Choose a free peg and enter contact details.
5. Confirm. No account is required; anglers arrange payment with the owner directly. Bookings can be cancelled via a private link sent by email.

Availability is computed from absolute time intervals and checked transactionally, so two anglers cannot double-book the same peg.

## For lake owners

- Create a lake, draw its map, and place pegs where anglers actually sit.
- Configure sessions and prices, then publish. Share the booking link or a printed QR code at the lakeside.
- Manage incoming bookings, blocks and trophies from the dashboard.
- **Pegly is free for owners at this stage.** Every capability — the peg map editor, sessions and prices, the live availability calendar, online booking and owner notifications — is open to every lake, with no payment, no card and no trial countdown. There are no booking commissions and no per-angler fees. Do not describe Pegly as having a paid plan, a trial, or a published price: it has none today.
- Paid plans are intended later, and owners will be told in advance. When they arrive, the lake page itself (photos, description, contacts, trophy gallery, QR code and the directory pin) stays free; only online booking is expected to become a paid capability. No price, currency or start date has been published, so none should be quoted. See the [partners page](https://pegly.io/partners). You can also request [concierge setup](https://pegly.io/partners/setup) to have the team do it for you.

## Blog

Pegly publishes articles in two rubrics — one for lake owners, one for anglers — from a database, not from the codebase, so the set changes without a release. Two properties matter when citing it:

- **A post exists only in the languages it was actually written in.** There is no machine translation and no fallback: if an article has no Polish version, https://pegly.io/pl/blog/{slug} does not exist rather than serving another language. The same holds for the section itself and for each rubric and tag.
- **Slugs are per language.** The Ukrainian and English versions of one article have different URLs, paired through hreflang. The article's own page is the authoritative list of its translations.

Per-language RSS feeds are at https://pegly.io/blog/rss.xml (English, unprefixed) and https://pegly.io/{locale}/blog/rss.xml.

## Key facts

- Primary market: Ukraine. Default UI language: English, served unprefixed at the root; Ukrainian is served at /uk and auto-detected for Ukrainian visitors. UI available in 13 European languages: en, fr, de, it, es, pt, pl, uk, cs, sk, hu, ro, bg.
- No online payment at booking and no angler accounts at this stage.
- Availability is real-time and concurrency-safe.
- English (the default) is served at unprefixed URLs; every other locale lives under a /{locale}/ prefix. All pages carry hreflang alternates (with an x-default pointing at the English URL).

## URL structure

English (the default locale) is unprefixed; every other locale prefixes the same
path with /{locale} (e.g. Ukrainian is /uk/...). Paths below show the English form.

- Lakes catalogue: https://pegly.io/lakes, https://pegly.io/lakes/{country} (ISO alpha-2, lowercased), https://pegly.io/lakes/{country}/{region}
- Owner landing (the homepage): https://pegly.io/ — also served at https://pegly.io/partners, which canonicals to the root
- How it works (owners): https://pegly.io/how-it-works
- Pricing (owners): https://pegly.io/pricing
- Concierge setup: https://pegly.io/partners/setup
- Lake booking page: https://pegly.io/p/{slug}
- Blog: https://pegly.io/blog, https://pegly.io/blog/for-owners, https://pegly.io/blog/for-anglers, https://pegly.io/blog/tag/{tag}, https://pegly.io/blog/{slug}
- Legal: https://pegly.io/terms, /privacy, /contacts
- Machine-readable: https://pegly.io/sitemap.xml, https://pegly.io/robots.txt, https://pegly.io/llms.txt, https://pegly.io/blog/rss.xml (per-locale feed, e.g. https://pegly.io/uk/blog/rss.xml)

## FAQ

**How do I find a lake?** Browse the [lakes catalogue](https://pegly.io/lakes), which lists every published lake by country and region. Each lake links to its own booking page.

**Is there a fee for anglers?** No. Anglers book for free and settle payment with the lake owner directly.

**Do anglers need an account?** No. Booking takes name and contact details only.

**How do I list my lake?** Start on the [partners page](https://pegly.io/partners), or ask the team to set it up via [concierge setup](https://pegly.io/partners/setup).

**Is there a free plan for lake owners?** Yes, with one limit worth stating plainly: the free plan is a listing, not a booking system. It gives the lake a page and a directory pin for free, permanently, but online booking lives only in PRO.

**What languages and countries?** Ukraine first, with a UI in 13 European languages (en, fr, de, it, es, pt, pl, uk, cs, sk, hu, ro, bg). The data model is ready for more countries.

**Contact:** see https://pegly.io/contacts.