Nestoria Blog

Dearest Nestoria fans, today is a big day for us here at Nestoria - it marks six months since we first showed our service to the world. Yes, shocking I know, to think that it was only six months ago that we launched our service. Of course back then we covered only (properties in) Greater London, and we had only a fraction of the number of listings we have now. Since then we've added a raft of new functionalities to help UK web users search for property.

To celebrate what we've accomplished, we took a little break from building the search engine last week and instead threw ourselves into the refreshing waters of the Bay of Biscay. 

The Nestoria team goes body boarding. December 2006. 

Of course we couldn't have done it without a lot of help from others. We'd like to thank, in no particular order:

• Our users, especially all of you who have taken the time to send us your much appreciated feedback.
• You, our loyal blog readers. Keep the comments coming!
• Our content partners like the UK's best pub site: Beer in the Evening, the great community of photographers at geograph.org.uk, and the true democrats over at TheyWorkForYou.
• The property blogging community for documenting our efforts, especially Renthusiast and The Rat and Mouse.
• The global open source development community, but especially the Perl community. Thanks for building great tools that allow us to do what we do. We'll see you at the next London Perl Workshop. Anyone who has ever submitted a CPAN module, your first beer is on us.
• All of our friends from the online mapping scene who have helped and inspired us: The teams at Mapstraction, OpenStreetMap, Free the Post Code, the rest of the UK Geohacking community and of course the folks over at Google Maps.
• Our always motivated squad of summer interns. Alex and James, we miss you! While it's doubtful we'll ever be able to replace these two, we're always on the lookout for enthusiastic talent. If you have what it takes, please join us.

Thanks to all of you, we look forward to the challenges of the next six months (trust me, after swimming in the Atlantic in December, everything else seems easy).