We arrived in Barcelona with a plan: find a nice apartment, settle in, start our new life. What we didn't plan for was the 50 other people who wanted the same apartment.
Every time we found a place we loved on Idealista — great location, fair price, nice photos — we'd call immediately. "Sorry, we already have 30 visits scheduled." We'd show up to viewings where the line went down the stairs. We'd send our documents within hours and hear nothing back.
We weren't too slow. We were drowning, checking Idealista, then Badi, all day, and still missing listings.
One of us is a developer. So instead of refreshing Idealista for the 200th time, we built something. A script that checks for new listings every few seconds and sends a Telegram alert the moment something matching our criteria appears.
We found our apartment in 3 days.
Then friends asked for it. Then friends of friends. Then strangers in expat Facebook groups. We realized this wasn't just our problem — it was everyone's problem. In Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, London, Dubai — anywhere the rental market is competitive, speed is the only advantage that matters.
So we turned our script into Prio.