The facts in one place. Ripazo is a private, invite-only dashboard for families and friends who co-own a vacation home — one shared space for the booking calendar, arrival and departure checklists, expense tracking, photo albums, and house information. It was founded in 2026 by Lex Mulier, a software engineer based in the Netherlands, and is operated as an independent product.
Where Ripazo started
My family has a vacation house in Ticino, Switzerland. Various family members use it, and now and then friends come along too. A wonderful place, except the logistics kept piling up: who's there when, which meter readings to take down on departure, who still owes for last year's boiler service.
The reason
My family kept everything in Excel, in a Trello board, and in a few other places besides. Granting access to a new guest was a manual chore every time. Someone accidentally deleted a row. The paper checklist on the kitchen wall was already two years out of date. The arrival instructions were never quickly findable.
Small things on their own. Stack them up and they cost time, and caused friction between people who were there to relax.
What Ripazo became
I'm a software engineer and I enjoy building products. When the same friction kept coming back each season, building one place for it seemed like the obvious thing to do. One private page with the booking calendar, the arrival and departure checklist, the addresses and house info, and everything around it.
Along the way I noticed it wasn't only about the necessities. A photo album from last summer, a list of restaurants and walks the family had collected over the years: those were missing just as much. Ripazo combines both now. The pages you need to run a shared house, alongside the pages that make the stay itself more fun.
Where you come in
Ripazo is still young, and a lot of it is still up for change. Most of what's in it started as something someone told me was missing or annoying, and I'd like to keep building it that way.
So if you're using Ripazo and a part of it doesn't fit how your family runs the house, tell me. Same if you get stuck and need a hand, or you have an idea you want to run past me, even a half-formed one.
The best way to reach me is email: info@ripazo.com. That goes straight to me, not a support queue, and I read every message. I can't promise every idea becomes a feature, but every message gets a proper answer, and it comes from me.
About me
I get up to the house in Ticino a few times a year myself. It's at its best when the small things take care of themselves. Alongside Ripazo I also work on my other product, Instant Alert.
Questions or comments? Find me on X at @lexmulier.
— Lex
