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Real code, real decisions, real tradeoffs. We write about what we build — .NET libraries, Telegram bots, AI integrations, and the architecture mistakes worth learning from.

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Article16 min read
Building an AI-Powered Real Estate Ranking System with C#, Ollama, and a Custom Crawler
A technical deep-dive into an open-source real estate aggregator for Saint Petersburg — covering the C# / .NET 10 architecture, Ollama vision model integration, custom crawler design, and the ideality scoring formula.
dotnetaicrawlingreal-estate
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Project8 min read
C# Web Scraping Library — Strongly Typed Crawling for .NET
Laraue.Crawling is a C# web scraping library for .NET with typed schemas for static HTML, JavaScript-rendered pages and XML, plus a base class for scheduled crawler jobs. It crawled 100,000+ listings for us.
dotnetcrawlingopen-source
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Project5 min read
AI Apartment Search: Ranking 100,000 Listings by Photo Quality
An application that crawled two big listing sites, scored every apartment photo with a local vision model and ranked flats by renovation quality. 100,000+ listings, open source. No new listings now.
aicrawlingreal-estate
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Article15 min read
From SaaS App to Open-Source Library — Building a C# Web Scraping Tool Over 5 Years
The journey of building a C# web scraping tool — from a no-code SaaS with a visual schema builder and wallet system, to an open-source typed .NET library. Architecture decisions, dead ends, and lessons learned.
dotnetcrawlingopen-source
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