Case Study: Apartment List builds its notification system three weeks faster with Courier
Key results
The challenge
Apartment List operates a rental marketplace connecting leasing agents and renters, with communication across both sides of the marketplace central to the experience. The engineering team wanted to deliver a full notification system without taking on the work of designing email templates and maintaining delivery infrastructure themselves.
The solution
Apartment List adopted Courier as its notification layer, offloading template design and multi-channel delivery so engineers could focus on the product rather than the underlying infrastructure.
“We wanted to build a house, but we didn't necessarily want to worry about the plumbing.”
PMPeter McInerneySenior Director of Engineering, Apartment List
The results, in context
With Courier, Apartment List reported that ramping up a full notification system was three weeks faster than building a homegrown solution, and the resulting system was easier to maintain. The company's marketplace spans more than 4 million listings.