endorsedOngoing

Development of a Real Estate Site Publishing Platform

Services Covered:

Website Development

Industry

Real Estate

Duration

121 months

Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date

1 July 2016

Team Size

Confidential

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

72/100

Good

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Client

Confidential

Los Angeles, United States of America

Project Summary

Brainhub provided ongoing staff augmentation on an existing real-estate website publishing platform, building administrative tools, design templates, integrations and performing DevOps work. The engagement supported CRM and CMS features and integrations (SalesForce with SimplyRETS) and included refactoring the AngularJS codebase and containerizing infrastructure. The work coincided with growth from roughly 10 clients to 60–70 and about 200,000 monthly unique visitors; communication and technical ability were praised while scalability and consistency in project management were noted as areas for improvement.

Key Challenges

Build a new real-estate website publishing platform
Augment the client's software engineering team to deliver new functionality
Implement integrations and DevOps improvements to support MLS listings and platform stability

Project Deliverables

Administrative tools and management interfaces
Design templates for client websites
Admin panel for clients to add listings and properties
CRM and CMS functionalities
SalesForce integration with SimplyRETS for MLS listings
Refactored AngularJS to a component-based system
DevOps setup including Docker-based containers and Jenkins
Testing modules

Project Solution

Brainhub took over an existing infrastructure and provided ongoing staff augmentation, building administrative tools and reusable design templates for a real-estate website platform. They implemented CRM and CMS capabilities and worked on integrating SalesForce with SimplyRETS for MLS listings. The team refactored an AngularJS codebase into a component-based system and performed DevOps work including Docker containerization, server environment setup, Jenkins implementation, and test modules while maintaining continuous developer collaboration with the client's team.

Project Outcome

Grew client base from about 10 to 60–70 clients
Achieved approximately 200,000 unique visitors per month
Noted strong communication and technical expertise from the vendor
Experienced variability in project management consistency and limitations scaling staff quickly

Platforms

Tech Stack

AngularJS
Node.js
MongoDB

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.63

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“The number of clients has grown from 10 to 60–70 and the platform gets about 200,000 unique visitors per month. Brainhub’s communication is great compared to other vendors. Their technical expertise is outstanding, however, they need improvement in scalability and consistency with project managers.”
Anonymous
Founder
Date: 07/18/2017