
A four-time RV owner handed his son-in-law a phone and issued a simple challenge: find us a campsite tonight. The frustrating search became Spot2Nite - and a lesson in building software from a problem you know by heart.

A frustrating weekend ritual became a national camping platform. Kevin Long's route to The Dyrt runs through Deaf education, two tech exits, a Portland meetup, and years of taking the product camping.
The New Orleans startup began with an RV, an empty itinerary and too many phone calls. Its bigger idea was not another camping directory, but a live inventory network that other travel brands could plug into.