Latest project: Yatmo, a new real estate search engine...

Recently, I put online my latest project: Yatmo!

It's a new real estate search engine that I have developped during my free time in London...

With this service, you can easily find a property which corresponds to your criteria and you can see the details in 7 languages (English, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese!), the prices in 17 currencies and you can switch between m² and ft²!

We still need to increase the number of realtors, the website is ok for all the devices but not perfect so we will create a native mobile application... We only have Belgium in our countries list but we are ready to support more countries!

If you have any ideas/feedback/tips for me, do not hesitate to contact me!

Of course, Yatmo has been done in .NET!

The website has been realised with the following technologies:

• ASP.NET MVC 5
• Dapper
• Windows Azure
• SQL Azure
• Azure Data Sync
• Azure Storage (Table Storage / Blob Storage / Queue)
• Azure CDN
• Azure Cache
• NMoneys
• AttributeRouting
• T4MVC
• NUnit
• Moq
• Simple Injector

For the moment, we have 4 small instances for the search engine, 2 medium instances for the administration area and one small instance for the background processes. And we are ready to scale out...

Update 2024: Yatmo is now a points of interest API used by different real estate portals in Europe.

We also created pages for all the countries in the World.

More information here:

• Medium article about Yatmo
  
• Evernote article about Yatmo
  
• Another article about Yatmo
  
• Storeboard
  
• Mini site about Yatmo
• Pinterest profile
  
• Behance profile
  
• About me Yatmo
  
• Reddit Yatmo
  
• News Break articles: first article, second article

News

That's a long time since my latest article on this blog!

Since the previous article, many things have changed for me: I quit my job at Emakina Belgium, I am now freelancer and I moved from Brussels to London for a contract of 6 months for my current client: Ink.

Next steps: creating my own company in Belgium at my return in Belgium and continuing to work on my next personal project!

New project for the belgian market

Edit: To comply with the laws of Belgium, the site has been put offline (some exchanges were not legal and I do not want to be responsible of that).

Last week, I launched a new site dedicated to the Belgian market (and maybe I will be targeting other countries after...): ChequeChange

The site is prety simple and is dedicated to the exchange of meal/eco vouchers in Belgium: this is not a business that fascinates me but making this project will be useful for some people and has help me to improve my skills! (the code and the databases of my next projects will be better!)

The website has been realised with the following technologies:

- ASP.NET MVC 4
- Entity Framework 5.x (but I still prefer using stored procedures that EF can map...)
- Windows Azure (2 small instances for the moment)
- MetricsHub (for monitoring and in case of automatic scale out needed... very good product!)
- SQL Azure
- Azure Storage
- Azure CDN
- Azure AppFabric Caching (thanks to MVC Donut Caching...)

The design is -almost- responsive and the site can be used on all the devices ;-)

This is my second experience with Windows Azure... I like this product! The SDK is excellent and up to date, the portal is well done and easy to use, the analytics are useful, performance are good, etc. A great product!