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Jun 2, 2026What I Learned Normalizing Dublin Rental Listings from Messy Public Sources
I started HomeScout because Dublin renting is painful in a very specific way: the market is...
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May 18, 2026How Natural Language Search Actually Works for Property Listings
Most NLP tutorials use toy examples. "What's the weather?" "Book me a flight." Property search is...
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May 18, 2026Building a Rental App in a Market Dominated by One Player
When Daft.ie has this much market share in a vertical, the product question is less "how do we beat...
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May 18, 2026Building a Rent Fairness Calculator From 10,000+ Listing Data Points
Dublin has a rental price opacity problem. Property sale prices in Ireland are public, recorded in...
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May 18, 2026Architecture of a Rental Aggregator: Scraping and Normalizing 90+ Sources
Building a rental aggregator for Dublin means pulling data from a fragmented market: one dominant...
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May 18, 2026Managing Rental Viewings
Apartment hunting is a stateful workflow. At any given moment, a user might have 15 listings in...
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May 18, 2026Dont Know Where To Live
One of the first onboarding questions we tried for HomeScout was: "Which area of Dublin are you...
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May 18, 2026Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists
When people find out I'm building a rental search platform for Dublin, the first question is usually...
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May 18, 2026Building a Real-Time Listing Alert System: Polling, Webhooks, and Monitoring 90+ Sites
The alert system is the most user-critical feature in a rental aggregator. Users care most about...
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May 18, 2026Why Landlords Never Reply
The Dublin rental market has a response rate problem. The average renter sends a generic inquiry to...
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May 18, 2026Finding Apartment From Abroad
When I looked at who was actually signing up to HomeScout in the early months, the timezone...
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May 18, 2026Data Normalization Across 90+ Rental Sources: How to Make Listings Comparable
Dublin's rental listings are spread across dozens of sources: Daft, Rent.ie, MyHome, letting agency...
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