Shitty Listings
Web and SaaS
real estate search
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
9 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, nice design
From 2 comments
This could be a valuable tool. I like the clean website too. I don't see an About page. It would be interesting to see who is doing this and what you plan to do with it.
joshuaheard on HNReally nice design throughout both this site and the open listings site!
rajacombinator on HN
Useful idea for buyers and investors
From 3 comments
Ohhh. I want this for my area. Great idea.
davak on HNThis would be an interesting application for Las Vegas, and clearly the core of any 'flip this house' get rich scheme. But as a way of finding and developing underperforming real…
ChuckMcM on HNThis is really neat. Now, is there a similar service for purchasing car? for example it would be great if there is a service that looks into craigslist or other sources and sees…
oonny on HN
Objections
Site is blank with JavaScript disabled
From 3 comments
This site is completely blank with noscript on.
ars on HNI don't disable javascript, only some externally loaded scripts. Anything loaded from the same host is allowed. I expect some sites not to work fully, but completely blank is…
ars on HN> you need the rest of the assets anyway Like I said, I expect some things not to work. But the page should not be completely blank. The plain text on the home page does not need…
ars on HN
Regex approach is not scientific enough, price per sqft would be better
From 1 comment
i tough you were more scientific. e.g. looking for lower $/sqf in the same area.
gcb0 on HN
Requests
Coverage for more cities, such as Melbourne and Sydney
From 2 comments
Any chance that you will come to Melbourne, Aus?
scottmcdot on HN+1 for Australia, but come to Sydney first.
bbcbasic on HN
A blog post explaining the algorithm
From 1 comment
The regex above is one signal we're using. We also look at relative price per sqft and a number of other factors. We could do a little blogpost that goes in-depth on our…
rgbrgb on HN
Questions
How is the business monetised
From 1 comment
What's your plan to monetise this? Do you somehow get a cut for each one sold?
abrookewood on HN
How TF-IDF is run on listings
From 1 comment
could you describe the way you are running TF-IDF on the listings - are you pushing them into Solr/Elasticsearch and then firing a query with the same description to see which…
sandGorgon on HN
Alternatives named
Open Mansions
From 1 comment
I should add that we do something similar for mansions: https://twitter.com/openmansions And here's the full firehose of shitty listings: https://twitter.com/shittylistings
rgbrgb on HN
SimplyRETS
From 1 comment
Great to see more action in the real estate space. One thing I found interesting was that you actually registered to become brokers to distribute the data and get the commission.…
creichert on HN