The challenge
Sky-Hype AG approached me with the vision to plan, design, develop and maintain the largest, free property portal in the world. With a powerful metasearch engine and over 100 planned source portals, a huge project!
Evolution from 2016 - 2019
What I did
Features
- Free real estate listings in over 100 countries
- Private account area, user profiles, messaging system
- Listings with up to 50 high-resolution images, drafts
- Translated in 10 languages, 48 more planned
- Metasearch engine with 8 sources, more planned
- Import from OpenImmo and KyeroXML
- Mobile ready
Real estate listings
Sky-Hype allows for easy and free real estate listings in over 100 countries all around the world. It takes less than 1 minutes to register and create the first listing.
Multi-language
The site’s translation is centrally managed and allows for unlimited flexibility. At the moment we’re supporting 10 languages with over 48 planned.
- German
- English
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Greek
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Russian
- Turkish
- Japanese
Metasearch engine
The custom, Python based metasearch engine already connects to 8 sources with over 100 more planned.
- Germany; immobilienscout24.de
- Spain; idealista.com
- France; seloger.com
- Portugal; idealista.com
- Russia; cian.ru
- UK; zoopla.co.uk
- Sweden; booli.com
- Switzerland; homegate.ch
Website technology
Initially developed on ExpressionEngine 2, then 3, Sky-Hype is now powered by Nest.js.
- Nest.js backend (100% Typescript)
- Vue 2 / Nuxt.js frontend with Vuex state management
- Responsive design
- Image storage on Amazon S3
- Custom, Python based metasearch engine with over 8 sources
- Custom, OpenImmo & KyeroXML Import tools written in Typescript