Health, home and travel decision
Homefast.cy
A motivated developer can reproduce the core monitoring+alerts+feed using existing OSS components (see the ai-real-estate-assistant repo), but building and hardening the always-on scraping, reliable SMS delivery, and polished UX to match the paid product is a multi-week effort and maintenance burden — so keep paying if you need turnkey reliability and speed.
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$19/mo
$228/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off72 h to build
$140/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 8 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Continuously scrape three listing sites, dedupe and store listings, score each listing vs. market data, compute commute times, surface matches in a shared feed/CRM, and send prioritized SMS alerts.
What it still won’t have
- Polished 24/7 monitoring and reliability for scrapers at scale
- Built-in SMS delivery workflow and negotiated SMS throughput
- Refined AI scoring tuned to local Cyprus market
- Polished UX (map, shared feed, voting, CRM) and support
- Monitoring, retries, and anti-blocking for scraping fragile third‑party sites
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 8 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal Homefast replacement as a hosted app using: Next.js for frontend, Postgres on managed provider (Supabase or Neon) for storage, FastAPI (or Express) backend, Playwright-based scrapers per source, Redis for job queue, OpenAI-compatible LLM calls for price/feature analysis, Google Maps (or OpenRouteService) for commute times, and Twilio for SMS. Core features in scope: (1) register and save up to 5 active searches, (2) scrapers for Bazaraki/Home.cy/Zyprus that run on a scheduler and dedupe results into Postgres, (3) match & scoring pipeline that runs an LLM analysis and stores the score, (4) feed UI with map pins, listing cards and basic CRM columns, (5) scheduler that sends SMS alerts to a single phone with summary and link. Out of scope: multi-tenant billing, advanced rate-limiting/anti-bot scraping at scale, enterprise team/permissions, and polished mobile app. Include tests for scrapers, API endpoints, and job workers; add error handling, retries, logging, and a basic Docker Compose for local dev and a Kubernetes-ready Dockerfile for production.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score56
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productHomefast — Find your Cyprus rental before anyone else does.
- official pricingPricing | Homefast
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
