A real estate portal rebuilt at a fraction of the cost.
The portal had been patched for years, and our founder made the call to rebuild it instead. It now indexes over 120,000 properties, answers queries in under half a second, and costs 70% less to run.
Results
- 120k+Properties indexed and searchable.
- Under 0.5sQuery response across the whole index.
- 70%Infrastructure cost reduction.
- Top 3Google rankings for the property searches it competes on.
The problem
The portal had been patched for years. Search was slow enough to lose visitors, infrastructure cost more every month, and every new feature took longer than the last. The obvious answer was another round of patches.
What we built
The honest call was that patching had run out. A rebuild is usually the wrong answer, so the decision was made against a test: could the existing search be made fast without replacing the storage layer? It couldn’t.
The rebuild put search on a properly modeled index, moved the front end to Next.js for rendering that search engines could read, and reshaped the infrastructure around what the traffic actually looked like.
The result
The portal relaunched as Imohub, indexing over 120,000 properties with queries under half a second, 70% lower infrastructure cost, and top three Google rankings on its core terms.
Built with
- Next.js
- React
- Laravel
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Docker
Delivered by
Our founder, before Velosyd. The same approach, standards and tooling now run every Velosyd project.
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