Our latest project www.restaurant-sale.co.uk is now going live! It is a vertical based Business Sales website. It focusses on restaurant sales.

Restaurant Sales are a tough business for business agents and getting in front of a dedicated restaurant buying audience is key.

Artificial Gold are the sole developer and a minority shareholder in this project. The main shareholder is Neil Pearce, a business sales agent.

Together, hopefully, the business will be a success! We are the technical partner so I am happy to detail our technical details:

• MVC3 Website
• SOA structure
• Fluent NHibernate Data Access
• Unit Tested, Integration Tested (using Sql Lite)
• .NET 4.0
• Structure Map DI
• Rake scripts
• TeamCity

Future plans for the development suite include

• Cucumber Automated Testing
• Google Location Mapping and JQuery API

We plan to use location based searching for v1.1 of the site. We are aware of the sensitivity of exact locations for businesses for sale in terms of employee security and business reputation so we are going to address this concept with real sensitivity. We went down the route of a property type location search at first and this just didn’t fit the business. So we have ripped it out for v1 and after our research will attack it in v1.1

Any thoughts? Let us know!

Andrew

PS: Buying a domain name is so hard and took us ages to agree on, what are your thoughts!!