AI search · checked 2026-10-19Can I vibecode One Place?
NOT REALLY· don't bother
What you pay One Place for is the index: over a thousand source portals in 27 countries merged into single listings and searchable by what the photos show. That data can't be rebuilt in a prompt, and many portals' terms and bot protection make scraping them a bad plan. You can build the slice around your own hunt: read the saved-search alert emails portals already send you, have an LLM rank the new homes against your brief, and keep boards and notes. It covers only the portals you set alerts on.
$43.78/moprice
$525it costs you a year
weekendbuild time
—people replaced it
What you need on hand.
DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.
TimeA weekend, plus setting up alerts on each portal
- Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
- Node.js 22better-sqlite3 compiles a native module, so build tools must be installed.
- A mailbox that allows IMAPUse an app password; set up saved-search alerts on every portal you want covered.
- An LLM endpointA hosted API key or local Ollama; each email costs one extraction call.
Before you buildOne Place's Free plan already does unlimited search, saved searches with email alerts and five boards. Use that first, and build only if you need your own ranking.
- 1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
- 2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
- 3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.
The prompt
Build me a personal home-hunt tracker for one market, covering the slice of One Place that I can
collect myself. Requirements:
- Node.js 22 + TypeScript: a Fastify server with server-rendered pages (Eta) and Leaflet maps.
`npm start` serves http://localhost:4895.
- Inputs, no scraping: read the saved-search alert emails that the portals send me, from an IMAP
mailbox (`imapflow`, IMAP_HOST, IMAP_USER, IMAP_PASSWORD in .env), only from sender domains listed
in PORTALS in .env. Parse them with `mailparser`, then have an OpenAI-compatible LLM (`openai` SDK,
OPENAI_BASE_URL and MODEL in .env) extract every listing as JSON {url, title, price, currency,
size_m2, rooms, address}. Also an Add by URL form where I paste the details myself.
- Storage: better-sqlite3 in ./data/homes.db: listings (unique canonical URL), listing_urls (the same
home on several portals), price_history, boards, board_items (column: Interested, Viewing, Offer,
Rejected), notes and a single brief (free text plus must-haves).
- Merge duplicates: treat two listings as one home when address matches after normalisation, size is
within 3% and price within 5%; keep every source URL on the merged record.
- Ranking: score each new home 0-100 against the brief with a one-line reason, using a cap
MAX_LLM_CALLS_PER_DAY in .env. Recompute only when the brief or the listing changes.
- Geocode addresses with Nominatim at one request per second, cached, and show homes on a map.
- Pages: feed sorted by score, a board view with drag between columns and notes, and a price
history chart per listing. Show prices in a currency of my choice using the ECB daily rates XML.
- Email me a daily digest of new homes scoring at least 70 (nodemailer, SMTP in .env).
- Single user, one password in .env. No accounts, no telemetry, local-first.
- Out of scope: crawling portal websites, photo search, other users, an agent that browses.
- README: how to create a saved search with email alerts on each portal, a warning that portals'
terms often forbid automated scraping which is why this reads your alerts, and that coverage
is only what the alerts contain.Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.
Then keep going
Next prompts, same folder.
The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own One Place.
Add a viewing checklist to the home tracker in this folder. Requirements: - A reusable checklist template (damp, noise, light, storage, water pressure, mobile signal, heating) that can be edited in settings. - Each board item can hold one filled checklist per viewing with a date, scores 1-5 and a free-text note, and photos uploaded into ./data/uploads/. - The board card shows the average score and the date of the last viewing. - Update the README.
Add commute times to the home tracker in this folder. Requirements: - Store up to three destinations (name, address) in settings. - For each geocoded home, call a routing API chosen in .env (OpenRouteService or OSRM public demo) once per destination for walking, cycling and driving, and cache the result for 30 days. - Show the times on the card, allow filtering by a maximum, and add commute to the ranking prompt. - Update the README, including the usage limits of the routing service you pick.
Add read-only sharing to the home tracker in this folder. Requirements: - A share link per board with a random 32-character token, revocable in settings. - The public page shows the homes, links, scores and notes marked shareable, and no email content or digests. - Visitors can add a thumbs up or down per home, stored with a first name they type. - Update the README.
What you lose
- The unified index of listings from more than a thousand portals across 27 countries
- Search by what photos show, such as a red kitchen or arched windows
- De-duplicated results with a link to every site that listed the home
- An agent that reads the whole market, checks claims against photos and keeps looking daily
- Price history, energy class and neighbourhood data on every listing, plus lead pipeline tools for professionals
Why people still pay
Anyone looking in several countries or portals otherwise has to repeat the same search on each site and spot the same home listed three times. The Free plan already covers search and alerts, so Pro is bought by people who want the daily agent or who run client pipelines.
One Place or your own copy?
Over
Your usage
12h ×$/h
One Place, 1 yr$525
Your own copy, 1 yr$56running + build session
You keep$470pays for itself in the first month
Estimate · Free on your own machine with a local model; a hosted small model for a few hundred emails a month costs a few dollars. The build is token usage on your agent plan.
Take your data, then cancel.
1 · Take your data out of One Place
- 1We found no export function in the pricing page, FAQ or terms we read, so treat your saved items as stuck in the app.
- 2Boards can be shared with anyone, so a shared board link is a practical way to keep the list of homes.
- 3Every listing page links to the portals that listed it, so open the original links for the homes you care about and note them elsewhere before you leave.
2 · Cancel One Place
- 1Open the billing page in your One Place portal and cancel there, at any time.
- 2You keep Pro until the end of the period you already paid for, then the account goes back to Free and nothing you saved is deleted.
- 3You can also switch between monthly and annual billing whenever you like.
- 4To leave entirely, delete the account in your account settings: the terms say profile, search history and saved properties are then permanently removed.
- Downgrading to Free keeps your saved searches, favorites and up to five boards, so cancelling Pro rarely costs you the data.
- The terms prohibit scraping or crawling the service, so don't plan to pull your lists out with a script.
- The half-price offer applies only to people who join by 30 November and keep subscribing, so check the date before you resubscribe later.
- Set up email alerts on the national portals for your market before you cancel, so the alerts keep arriving.
Checked 2026-10-19 against One Place's docs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
The escape hatch
Don't feel like building it? These are already free.
One Place Free planFreeThe same search, saved searches with email alerts and five shareable boards cost nothing; Pro adds boards without limit, a Kanban pipeline and the daily agent.they host it
WebVisit ↗RightmoveFreeUK property portal for sale and to rent, free to search; covers the UK only.they host it
WebVisit ↗ImmoScout24FreeGerman property portal for apartments, houses and commercial space, free for searchers; Germany only.they host it
WebVisit ↗
WebVisit ↗RightmoveFreeUK property portal for sale and to rent, free to search; covers the UK only.they host it
WebVisit ↗ImmoScout24FreeGerman property portal for apartments, houses and commercial space, free for searchers; Germany only.they host it
WebVisit ↗
The numbers
One Place pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Unlimited search across every market indexed, unlimited favorites, unlimited saved searches with email alerts, up to 5 custom boards that you can share with anyone. |
| Pro | $43.78 | $37.32 | Everything in Free plus unlimited boards, a Kanban lead pipeline, lead activity tracking, and agentic search where an agent keeps looking every day. |
- Free tier
- Five boards; no lead pipeline, no activity tracking and no agentic search.
- Billing
- Monthly or annual, in euros plus VAT, paid through Stripe. You can switch between monthly and annual at any time. There is no automatic trial; the company hands out time-limited Pro trials and one-time invite links on request. The same price applies in every country.
- Hidden costs
- VAT is added to the listed prices. The half-price offer is limited to people who join by 30 November, so the price after that date is the regular €39.
- Source
- one-place.com
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Free forever with no card: unlimited property search, favorites and saved searches with email alerts, and up to 5 shareable boards.
Not really. Anyone looking in several countries or portals otherwise has to repeat the same search on each site and spot the same home listed three times. The Free plan already covers search and alerts, so Pro is bought by people who want the daily agent or who run client pipelines. The prompt on this page builds the closest honest substitute.
About $43.78 a month on the Pro plan, $525.36 a year (checked 2026-10-19).
The unified index of listings from more than a thousand portals across 27 countries; Search by what photos show, such as a red kitchen or arched windows; De-duplicated results with a link to every site that listed the home; An agent that reads the whole market, checks claims against photos and keeps looking daily; Price history, energy class and neighbourhood data on every listing, plus lead pipeline tools for professionals. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.
Yes: One Place Free plan (free), Rightmove (free), ImmoScout24 (free).