Roomster: Airbnb-like Social Platform Case Study

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It has a website built with .NET, Python, and ReactJS as well as native mobile applications for iOS and Android. The Client The client is an international room rental company with headquarters in New York. The company was founded in September of 2003 and since then has helped people to look for accommodations and roommates around the world. Currently, it operates in 192 countries and supports 18 languages, providing 24/7 customer service. Our Tasks While working on the Roomster project, we managed to combine the efforts of our technical specialists and marketing team, which of course sets this project apart from many others. For convenience, we have divided this case into the two aforementioned areas our specialists worked with. Implementation The Challenge Our team was tasked with thinking over and developing a fast yet flexible geospatial search using open-source location data. The use of Google Maps API was not possible, and the application worked on the basis of an open-source service called Pelias. This API used the services of the world’s biggest open-source places database, WhosOnFirst, which had problems with data duplication at the time. Finally, the Roomster team wanted the user to be able to specify many different parameters when searching. The Solution General search flow design We have optimized the search flow so that it consisted of 3 main stages: The user enters freeform text in the search field. This action triggers an API call to Pelias autocomplete API. This city ID is sent to our search API that returns all apartments matching the ID. Data schema design We created our internal city (state, block, room, etc.) IDs and mapped them to external ones (coming from Pelias). It allowed us to get rid of data duplication while interacting with the current API and with any other geocoder in the future. Choosing a database to improve performance We chose ElasticSearch which was definitely the best choice for the sake of a high-load search. It allowed using both simple city IDs (just integers) and geopoints for fully-fledged geospatial search. By adding Kubernetes, as the most mature enterprise-ready orchestration system, our team managed to install the most configurable container orchestration system for microservices. The Result Choosing the right data schema, database engine and orchestration system allowed us to satisfy our client's functional and non-functional requirements. Despite using an open-source service with messy data, we managed to build a flexible, scalable, and resilient search system. The Challenge Our marketing team faced the following challenges: Develop an effective marketing strategy Create an adequate and understandable advertising budget plan Optimize the landing pages Identify the main channels for attracting stable and relevant traffic Set up the link building process Launch the promotion of mobile applications (iOS and Android) The Solution After a series of consultations with the client, our marketing team identified the following steps to be taken: Definition and analysis of the main competitors in the segment. (Services like Airbnb, Zillow, and Trulia were our markers) Updating the design of the main landing pages with a focus on the countries selected above (Custom texts for each of the languages & automated takeup of the newest listings from the relevant locations) Keyword clustering with the creation of a multilingual semantic core for the following countries: USA, UK, Germany, France, and Ireland Website technical audit. (Using ScreamingFrog, Netpeak Spider, and SEO Site Checkup) Creation of new advertising campaign and cross-linking strategy The Result All the above-mentioned actions ensured a 2-fold increase in organic search traffic, without spendings on link building. Below, you can see the screenshot displaying traffic for the same period last year, before the start of SEO optimization. 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