welcome

Posted by tom on May 15, 2007

We finally made it! As of 14th of May, Rentability.com goes live and we start our (hopefully short) public 'beta' period. It's been a heck of a lot of hard work, even to get this far, but we think it's been worth it. We feel Rentability is indeed something special.

So what's this blog for? Well, it should be a good place to keep interested parties up-to-date with the latest Rentability goings-on. Information on site updates - new features etc - will be posted here along with anything else we feel a burning desire to share with the world.

We started this project because we thought that existing holiday rental websites weren't really offering what they should to either property owners or would-be holiday makers. We thought that these sites should have more powerful search facilities - why shouldn't you be able to find all properties with plasma TVs if you know that information is in the owner's adverts? We thought that property owners should be able to create more detailed and attractive listings. That's why, amongst other things, we don't put limits on the number of photos used to describe a property. Upload as many photos as you like! (Okay, maybe I should set some kind of limit now. Hmm, alright, you can't upload more than 1000 photos of your property!)

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  1. JJGJuly 10, 2007 @ 07:23 PM
    This looks spectacular! Where did you find all of the maps and get all the regional info! It looks like it would take forever to compile by hand!
  2. joshJuly 15, 2007 @ 06:16 PM
    Thanks! - Yes, the maps took a long time. A couple of months - and there are still quite a lot of problems with them that need to be ironed out before we launch properly. We had to spend quite a lot of money to buy the basic map data and then write a rather complex system to organise and render them - there are more than 13000 map images in all. Now we've got the basics sorted out we're working on the rendering style and hopefully the next version of the site will have much prettier maps.
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