Building a Real Estate Listings App with Filestack
In real estate, the photos are the product. A buyer scrolling a results page won’t read your description if the cover image looks like it was shot on a flip phone. A detail page that ships a 4MB hero over LTE loses them before scroll.
Doing images well usually means building a small pipeline: an upload endpoint that streams to S3, a worker pool for resizing, a CDN distribution, a queue for retries. That’s a meaningful chunk of engineering before you’ve shown a single listing. This guide walks through Horizon Pro, a real-estate marketplace built on Filestack, which replaces that pipeline with a single SaaS layer.
What we’re building
A user signs in, drags up to 10 photos onto a listing form, fills in price, beds, baths, and location, then publishes. The listing appears on the home grid with a cover thumbnail.
On the detail page, the same handle...
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