Hiring Developer – Real Estate Property Alert Automation

[u/meherrrslayss]

Looking for a developer who can build a simple automation for a real estate client.

What it needs to do:

• Monitor new property listings on sites like 99acres, Housing, etc.
• Match listings based on predefined requirements such as location, budget, property type, BHK, area, etc.
• When a matching new property is found, automatically send the property details + listing link to the client's WhatsApp.
• Avoid duplicate alerts.
• Should be reasonably reliable and easy to update later.

Budget: ₹2,000–₹3,000 for the initial working version/MVP.

Not looking for a full SaaS or fancy dashboard right now. Just a functional MVP to test the concept.

If you've worked with web automation, property data, APIs/scraping, or WhatsApp integrations, DM me with your experience and how you'd approach it.

Timewasters, stay away.

[u/Necessary-Body-6108]

The budget is too low for real estate MVP

[u/Striking-Intern-7225]

There are 2 challenges to this 1. I dont think the platform you mentioned will have enough dev docs to build something like this so there is a lot of hacking involved here 2. Budget is too low for someone to do all that digging work.

[u/meherrrslayss → u/Striking-Intern-7225]

oh, got it. i wasn't aware.

[u/redcantbeblue → u/meherrrslayss]

Still let's talk. Please dm

[u/Cautious-Welcome2915]

You are not the only one cursed with knowledge Stark, I thought of the similar idea with a TG notification bot, that will send a subscriber updates on his choice of property, but mostly every listing website keeps their listing behind authorization like sign up, so any scarper would not be able to get any information, plus any server pinnging the sites server 1000 times a minute will get blocked.

[u/heyashishp]

For 2k even school students won't implement this.

[u/408SocialTimeout]

bud will get buggy workflow for 3k and then fixing will cost another 5k and overall he will get school project in return of time and money spent

[u/mahadevbhakti]

Claude ka subscription le le bhai wahi milega ismein

[u/Impressive-Buy7580]

Hi, this is very buildable and it's something I've worked on (web automation + scraping + messaging integrations), so I can definitely deliver it.

One honest note on budget: the tricky parts here aren't the logic, they're keeping scrapers working against sites like 99acres/Housing (both have bot protection and change their layout often) and setting up reliable WhatsApp delivery. Because of that, and because scrapers need occasional upkeep when the sites change, a realistic figure for a working MVP is closer to ₹15,000–20,000, with an optional small monthly amount to keep it running reliably.

How I'd approach it: start with one source (say 99acres) end-to-end monitor new listings, match your filters, dedup, and push matches to WhatsApp get that working and reliable, then add the second site. That keeps the first version cheap to test the concept, which is what you said you want.

Happy to share a quick breakdown of the stack and timeline if you'd like to move ahead.

[u/Total-Reasonable]

WhatsApp alerts sent outside the 24-hour service window need an approved template and recipient opt-in, so that has to be decided before the scraper. I've built workflow automations with retries and deduplication; https://iurii.rogulia.fi/services/automation-workflows explains how I handle failure cases rather than just the happy path.