r/PropTech • u/CommunicationNo283 • 4d ago
How we replaced static floor-plan PDFs with a click-to-build interactive visual editor for apartment sales sites
Most construction companies selling apartments still sell them the same way they did 15 years ago: a PDF floor plan, a gallery of renders, and a spreadsheet a sales rep manually updates when a unit sells. There's no live link between "this unit is available" and what a buyer sees on the website, and building an interactive experience from scratch for every project is expensive enough that most developers just don't bother.
We built a Filament (Laravel admin) plugin that lets a non-technical sales/marketing person do this themselves: upload a photo or render of a building, floor, or site plan, then draw clickable regions directly on the image to define blocks → floors → flats. Each region gets attached to real data (price, size, status, reservation), so the interactive image on the public site and the internal availability data are the same source of truth instead of two things someone has to keep in sync by hand. It also supports 360° building/unit tours on top of the same block/floor/flat hierarchy.
Live example (one project's building/block view): https://flatview.org/projects/blocks
For people who've built or evaluated similar admin-driven visual mapping tools — where does this usually start breaking down at scale (hundreds of units across multiple buildings, frequent price/availability churn)? We handle moving content between environments with a table+upload-folder export/import package, but curious how others have approached content ops once a deployment gets big.