Couch Request
Paste the host's profile. Pick your dates. Get a genuine, personalized letter that references things they actually care about.
See it in action
Click any card to read the full letter.
How it works
Copy the text from their CouchSurfing page — or just paste the URL. Works with the profile, home section, and references.
Set your arrival and departure. The letter automatically mentions how long you're staying.
A personalized, human-sounding letter appears in seconds. Edit it freely, then copy and send.
vs. asking an llm directly
You can ask ChatGPT to write a couch request. What comes back is grammatically correct, politically inoffensive, and completely forgettable. Hosts can smell it. We built a tool that specifically solves that problem.
The problem
Every LLM reaches for the same phrases. Hosts who read a hundred requests a month recognize them immediately. A letter that reads like AI is a letter that gets archived.
blocked in csreq
csreq blocks 24 specific patterns. The output reads like a person who knows how to write, not a model that knows how to perform writing.
The problem
CouchSurfing cuts off request messages at 995 characters. A raw LLM will happily write 400 words that get silently truncated before the host ever sees your name.
ChatGPT output
1,340 chars — host sees first 995, letter ends mid-sentence
csreq output
874 chars — ends on a real sentence, nothing cut
The limit is enforced server-side. Every letter is trimmed at a natural sentence boundary if it runs long — so what the host reads is always a complete, intentional message.
The problem
When you ask ChatGPT to write a request, it writes about "learning from locals" and "exploring authentic culture." That's the default. It doesn't know the host spent two years building a rooftop garden or that they only host people who cook.
csreq reads the actual profile text and pulls the details that matter — a specific hobby, an unusual living situation, something the host wrote that most travelers skip over. The resulting letter is one the host can tell was written for them.
The problem
Hosts often bury important conditions in their profile — female guests only, minimum three nights, no guests during certain months, nudist household. ChatGPT writes a cheerful letter regardless.
csreq flags these conditions before you write. You won't send a perfect letter to the wrong host.
Why different
24 AI writing patterns blocked — no em dashes, no "vibrant tapestries", no rule of three.
Write your letter in any language your host speaks. One click.
Detects gender restrictions, nudism, minimum stays, and other important conditions before you write.
Choose 600 to 1500 characters. CS's own limit is 995 — the tool knows.
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