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Akiya Scout

Save, compare, score and export akiya and Japanese property listings into a private dashboard.

LivePlatform: Chrome extensionLast updated July 28, 2026

In one sentence

Save, compare, score and export akiya and Japanese property listings into a private dashboard.

The problem

Japanese property listings are spread across municipal akiya banks and agency sites, in Japanese, with no shared format and no way to compare two listings side by side.

Why I built it

A personal research project that turned into a real data-normalisation problem, which is the most interesting kind.

Who it is for

People researching property in Japan from outside Japan.

Current status

Live

Public and usable today. The link below was fetched and confirmed.

Screenshots

Screenshots pending — real captures only, never mocked.

Technology

  • TypeScript
  • Chrome MV3
  • Vite
  • React
  • IndexedDB

Role

Sole developer.

What I learned

Normalising listings across sites that share no schema is most of the work. The dashboard was two days; the parsers were two months.

Public links

Timeline

  1. 2026-06v1.3.2 on the Chrome Web Store

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