finding apartments in champaign sucks!
- the only way is to go to each agency site, and check if they have something that meets your criteria
- apartments.com / aggregators suck because each company has to upload their own apartments to each aggregator site, which they don't do
- We will build an aggregator site that goes to each agency and downloads the properties using a webscaper + internal APIs
- users can just visit our site to find properties they want, which will actually be up-to-date with all properties
- We scrape each champaign agency site for properties, once per hour to get most updated list + statuses
- A user visits our site, and can use simple filters to narrow down agency, location, bedrooms, bathrooms, price
- The user can now view the properties that meet their criteria
- Finish scraper
- Have scraper turn data into database of some sort - mongo/postgres/i dont care
- Write backend server code to interface with the database
- Write simple frontend
- Deploy frontend/backend to cloud (GCP/i dont care)
- Improve frontend, get public URL
- post on reddit and PROFIT!!!