To be honest, I was hoping for something more impressive, like making a slack bot which did some heavy lifting (scraping conversations about real estate?). The moment I saw "scraping craigslist" the magic was gone.
The title sounds like "How I used a cherry to make a birthday cake". Intriguing, yet disappointing when you learn he only placed the cherry on the top of the finished cake for pretty decoration.
Technically impressive or not, I think what he built is super useful, and it's a testament to his skill, foresight, and charity to build it in a way that is configurable and reusable by others. My plan is to live in my current apartment until I decide to buy something, but if I end up looking for another rental, I'd likely dust this off and use it.
You are right and I forgot to mention it. I was disappointed by the 'misleading' title, but I still appreciate that he built a useful and easy to use tool. If I had made something similar for myself, I wouldn't have polished it and it wouldn't have been usable by anyone else.
I think that will be in v2.0. The article also shows a shift from older tech such as slack vs email/twitter for notifications, which I quite like. However, I can't help feeling that as folks get more tech knowledgable, this type of strategy may not work. Maybe we will need the techniques used in high frequency trading employed in searching for an apartment, the milliseconds different may start to count :-)
The title sounds like "How I used a cherry to make a birthday cake". Intriguing, yet disappointing when you learn he only placed the cherry on the top of the finished cake for pretty decoration.