Fellow Nestormänner!
you may have mistaken the recent lack of posting to mean that after the frenzy of effort for our recent launch of
Nestoria Italia we were enjoying a bit of August holiday by the seaside. I can assure you, dear reader, this was not the case – we’ve been toiling hard and are pleased to present the fruits of our labour:
Nestoria Deutschland is now ready for the world to see!
Like in the other markets we operate in, we’ve been able to put together a comprehensive search experience by partnering with many of the biggest names in German online classifieds:
1a-ImmobilienMarkt,
ImmobilienScout24,
Immonet,
Kalaydo,
MyImmoWorld,
S-Immobilien, and
Sueddeutsche.de. A big thanks to all the partners for their trust in us. Just as we’ve done in Italy where we
recently added sizable player Trova-Casa we hope for the list of partners in Germany to grow with time as well (anyone who is interested should please
get in touch).
But for now the main task is to learn from German users, to see how they search and to tune our algorithms accordingly. We have a lot to learn, and all feedback is very welcome. We’d also like to explicitly thank all the folks who took part in the beta test for their invaluable comments. Please keep it coming.
There’s some more coverage of the launch
over at the Guardian, and for those of you who speak German and would like to keep up to date on our progress in the German market I recommend subscribing to our
German blog.
So there you have the key details of the Nestoria Deutschland launch, but we know many of you are also interested in the human element – of the personalities behind the machine. While we’re usually tight lipped about the going ons here at Nestoria HQ, the fan mail has been stacking up, and who are we to disappoint?
Here’s a revealing shot of two of the key players (though by no means the only ones):
On the right is Jonas, who’s been with us this summer heading up the German launch. Unfortunately, Jonas’s time with us has drawn to a close as he now heads off to
Cornell to begin a PhD in evolutionary robotics (not kidding). On the left we see long time Nestoria super-star, Spiros. The good news is Spiros isn’t going anywhere: he’s already earned his PhD in bioinformatics (also not kidding).
As you can see from the photo we spent a few minutes celebrating the launch wildly before we went back to the usual routine of query analysis and optimization.
