Cormac Redmond

DaftDrop.com is a non-profit Irish property price tracker, trying to give you an unbiased and impartial view of the Irish property market. DaftDrop.com can:

• Show price drops/increases
• Show the real time on market
• Show similar properties
• Detect previous listings of the same property
• Show unbiased, up-to-date trends via graphing
• Automatically notify you of price changes in your area!

I originally built fully automated software to track property data starting from May, 2011. The website, which went live mid-June, 2011, is an easy-to-use view of this data, aimed at buyers or anyone interested in property data & trends.

This project required a surprisingly large amount of coding, design and tinkering. Some of the technologies I have used include:

• Google Web Toolkit 2.*
• Google Charts
• HTMLUnit
• JavaMail
• SimpleCaptcha
• Apache Commons
• Apache HTTP Server
• Apache Tomcat
• MySQL

Since going live, the site has been much busier than I had anticipated, and has received a good response. DaftDrop.com is still a work-in-progress, however.