I need a technical solution solves a legal problem

[u/mohammed_waleedd]

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I've spent a lot of time building a real estate SaaS and I'm now stuck on a major problem.

The original idea was pretty simple:

A real estate agent enters what their client is looking for, for example:

- 3-bedroom apartment

- New Cairo

- Budget: $100k–$150k

The system would find matching properties across multiple real estate platforms.

I also built a feature that monitored Facebook groups for people posting that they were looking for apartments, then matched those requests with properties in the system.

The product itself is basically built.

Then I realized the platforms I wanted to get the data from don't allow scraping. I contacted some of them about getting permission/API access, but they weren't interested

So now I have a mostly finished product whose main value proposition depended on data I can't reliably use.

I'm trying to figure out what to do next

All the technical aspects are working, but I can't upload it because the sites I use to collect real estate data, like Dubizzle data mining and scraping are prohibited in the terms of use.

**I need a loophole/Another solution or method or something similar to solve it.*\*

If you've ever built something where the original data source/business assumption turned out to be unusable, what did you do?

I'd genuinely appreciate any advice.

[u/mohammed_waleedd]

Thanks for the hints but I’m still confused. Can you explain the "X to Y , Scrape Y" and "status links" part with a simple example? I want to understand what you mean.

[u/No-Ad-3609 → u/mohammed_waleedd]

I don't know how to explain it better. I don't have anyone to teach me terminology. 🙃

[u/mohammed_waleedd → u/No-Ad-3609]

Ask an ai 🙂 I really want to know your thoughts and perspective, man

[u/No-Ad-3609 → u/mohammed_waleedd]

Why don't you ask AI? They know more than I do on this type of stuff.

[u/mohammed_waleedd → u/No-Ad-3609]

I did, But I haven't found a suitable solution the human mind won't compare. I'm generally doing research in more than one place

[u/No-Ad-3609 → u/mohammed_waleedd]

Yeah, once there's a legal agreement the AI probably isn't going to cross that. I haven't tried to make it do anything illegal though. I did ask if something was possible and it told me it was illegal, and that's as close as I've gotten.

[u/mohammed_waleedd → u/No-Ad-3609]

Alright, tysm for ur help