Built for people searching for long-term housing in Belgium, including newcomers navigating Dutch and French listings.
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Why it matters
Finding a suitable home means switching between sites, languages and similar listings. A large catalogue does not guarantee a reliable match.
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What we built
ArendaBE brought rental cards, city selection, photo galleries and compact alerts into a Telegram bot to shorten the first screening step.
What the product included
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Browsed apartments, houses and studios in Telegram.
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Viewed photos and requested a description translation.
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Narrowed the search by city and received compact alerts.
The project journey
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Build a Telegram bot with rental cards, city selection and photo galleries.
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Test the idea with a large catalogue and a Telegram Ads campaign.
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Find direct contact with landlords in Belgium too hard, conclude the bot has no real use without it, and stop.
A closer look
An intermediate snapshot of the Russian and Ukrainian campaigns on 9 September 2026. It does not show the later four-campaign totals or the final 5.62 TON spend.
Real Telegram Ads dashboard on 10 September: an earlier snapshot of all four campaigns. The 28,426 impressions, 197 clicks and 60 bot starts in the article are a later 14 September snapshot.
Closed
Why it closed
ArendaBE is closed. Reaching landlords in Belgium directly turned out to be very hard, and without direct-owner listings the bot has no real use for renters. The published report covers the catalogue, the advertising test and the absence of confirmed customers. This page documents the experiment; it is not a recommendation to use the bot.
Common questions
Can I still use ArendaBE?
No. The project is closed and is no longer offered as a service. This page documents the experiment.
Why was it closed?
Reaching landlords in Belgium directly turned out to be very hard. The catalogue came from agency listings, and without direct-owner listings the bot has no real use for renters.
From a small rental parser to a Belgian housing catalogue and a Telegram Ads experiment. The real funnel, 5.62 TON in ad spend, product mistakes and the source-risk now blocking a freshness promise.
