Dev builds his own Cyprus real estate agent with 5 prompts in 20 minutes
marclou · x · 2026-09-05
Developer marclou needed a villa rental in Paphos, Cyprus, so he built his own real estate site in 5 prompts and about 20 minutes using AI.
Key points:
- AI pulled public real estate datasets and enriched them with public data like AQI, water quality, noise maps, and landslide susceptibility
- Since AI design was still weak, he prompted it to produce an Airbnb-style UI, and the result looks solid
- The live site aggregates 139 active rentals with filters for bedrooms, area, budget, and location, refreshed every 24 hours
It lets him skip commission-taking agents and demonstrates the 'build a vertical tool for one specific need' workflow of AI coding.
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