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Public log of substantive changes on Luxstay — new content, new tools, new datasets, and meaningful refreshes. Subscribe via the Atom feed or the newsletter.

May 2026

  1. Vietnam Visa Checker added

    2026-05-04
    Tool

    New tool: pick your passport and intended stay, get an instant visa-exempt / e-visa / check-official recommendation. Covers 50+ nationalities, cross-links to the visa guide article and the official portal.

  2. Tool usage dataset

    2026-05-04
    Data

    Anonymized daily counts of how often each Luxstay tool is used, by tool slug and locale. Ninety-day window. No PII, no inputs, no outputs.

  3. Editorial articles foundation

    2026-05-03
    Content

    New /articles section with 15 evergreen Vietnam topics: visa guide, cost of travel, climate, transport, neighborhoods, food, tipping, safety, and country-vs-country comparisons. ~354K monthly search volume across the seeded set.

  4. Article TOC, reading time, and "more articles"

    2026-05-03
    Feature

    Article pages get a sticky TOC sidebar, an estimated reading time shown beside the updated date, and a "more articles" widget that links to the four most recent siblings. Article JSON-LD now includes wordCount and timeRequired.

  5. Atom feed + Recent updates

    2026-05-02
    Feature

    New /feed.xml emits the last 50 destination, comparison, and article updates. /updates renders the same as HTML, grouped by month. Atom autodiscovery is wired into the locale layout so feed readers find the URL automatically.

  6. Embed widgets + /llms-full.txt

    2026-05-02
    Feature

    Tools now have iframe embeds (climate finder, currency converter, itinerary builder) at /embed/{slug}. /llms-full.txt concatenates the narrative content of every published page so AI agents can ground on Luxstay without crawling N pages.

  7. Search + 5-tool launch target

    2026-05-01
    Feature

    Site search wired to Postgres ILIKE across destinations and comparisons; SearchBar in the header. Vietnam Climate Finder, VND Currency Converter, Vietnam Cost Ranker, and Vietnam Itinerary Builder shipped, taking the tool catalog to five plus the trip cost calculator.

  8. Datasets section

    2026-05-01
    Data

    Three downloadable datasets — destinations, comparisons, climate windows — with JSON + CSV downloads, schema.org Dataset JSON-LD, and CC BY 4.0 license. Each has a per-column documentation page.

April 2026

  1. Comparison engine

    2026-04-30
    Feature

    Curated head-to-head pages launched (Hanoi vs HCMC, Da Nang vs Nha Trang, Sapa vs Ha Giang, etc). Each comparison reuses the structured facts already extracted for both destinations, so Claude only writes the comparative narrative — never invents underlying numbers.

  2. Vietnam destinations live

    2026-04-30
    Content

    First batch of 60 curated Vietnam destinations (12 tier-1, 24 tier-2, 24 tier-3) published with cost-of-travel bands, climate windows, and structured facts extracted from GeoNames + Wikipedia.