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Home pages
Add and edit a home with photos, details, architectural style and category.
Crowd-sourced property history with a mobile app
Home History Archive & App
A searchable history of homes, built by the people who lived in them: photos, stories, past residents and alerts when something new is added.
AT A GLANCEREAL ESTATE
- Apps
- Website, Android and iOS app, admin panel
- Discovery
- Search with filters, near-me list and map
- Alerts
- SMS when a followed home gets new photos or stories
- Built with
- PHP, MySQL, Ionic / Angular, Capacitor
8 MODULESBUILT AND SHIPPED
The problem
What it replaces
The story of a house — who built it, who lived there, what it looked like before — is scattered across family albums and memories. Buyers, past residents and local historians have nowhere to put it or find it, and no way to hear when someone adds to it.
This platform gives every home a page where people add photos, stories and the people connected to it, claim “I lived here” and build a personal timeline of their homes — searchable on the web and from a mobile app, with SMS alerts for anyone following a house.
Who uses it
Contributors
Add homes, photos, stories and people, and record the homes they lived in.
Followers
Search or browse nearby homes and follow one for SMS alerts.
Admins
Users, properties, banners, pages, email templates and settings.
Features
What the system does
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Photo stories
Stories and sub-stories attached to the photos of each home.
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People and residents
People linked to a home, and an “I lived here” claim for past residents.
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Personal timeline
Every home someone has lived in, in order.
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Search and near me
Filters by type, age and size, plus a near-me list and map from the device’s location.
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Follow a home
Subscribe to a house and get an SMS when something new is added, with opt-out handled.
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Mobile app
Add homes, people, stories and photos from the phone’s camera and location.
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Admin and content
Users, properties, sliders, CMS pages, email templates and settings.
Architecture
How the pieces fit together
A PHP application serves the website and a JSON API; the mobile app is a native wrapper around a web codebase that calls the same API.
Apps
- Websiteserver-rendered
- Mobile appIonic · Capacitor · iOS / Android
- Admin panel
Platform
- Homes & stories
- People & timelines
- Search & near me
- Follow & alerts
Data
- MySQL
- Photo storage
Connected services
- SMS
- Maps & geolocation
- AddSomeone adds a home and its photos from the web or their phone.
- TellOthers add stories, people and “I lived here” claims.
- FindVisitors search or browse homes near them on the map.
- FollowFollowers get an SMS whenever the home’s story grows.
Built with
- PHP
- CodeIgniter
- MySQL
- Ionic
- Angular
- Capacitor
Built before, fitted to you
Start from an architecture that has already shipped
We have delivered this kind of system, so yours starts from a design that is known to work, not a blank page. Your workflow, your terminology and your approval chain shape what we build on top of it.