The original intent was to simplify the search process by collecting multiple input sources and displaying them on one interface.
Lessons Learned
Owning the data is important, depending on external parties is very limiting (I’ve had experience with this in the past, it creates a really limited the product). This project is no longer maintained, Craigslist changed the way they fetch their data and that broke the fetching in a core way and the Facebook API gave me reduced data and wasn’t easy to work with; other apis were also difficult in their own ways.