Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists
Caspar Bannink is developing a rental search platform for Dublin, despite the dominance of Daft.ie in the market. He aims to address the gap in the rental listings by aggregating data from multiple sources, rather than competing directly with Daft. The technical challenges include managing diverse data structures, deduplication of listings, and ensuring accurate price normalization.
- ▪Daft.ie has a strong market presence and a two-sided network effect that is difficult to replicate.
- ▪Bannink's platform will aggregate listings from various sources, including Rent.ie and smaller agency portals.
- ▪The technical architecture involves handling source heterogeneity, deduplication, and price normalization.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3908117) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Caspar Bannink Posted on May 27 • Originally published at homescout.io Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists #devjournal #product #sideprojects #startup Building 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 some version of: "But why? Daft is already there." It's a fair question.
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