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Nice. Me and two partners had something like this in 2012. We tried to sell it to zoopla/rightmove/etc but none of them were interested. We integrated it with s

Nice. Me and two partners had something like this in 2012. We tried to sell it to zoopla/rightmove/etc but none of them were interested. We integrated it with stuff like supermarkets, clinics, gyms, etc and allowed you to build quite complex searches with multiple locations and constraints. It was called locatable.com and is now thoroughly dead. I wish you luck monetising this somehow!

DanFau 8y ago
It is very interesting hat you had a similar idea, would you like to share your experience with me ? If so, can you send me an email at : contact@oalley.fr ?
- entropie 8y ago
  Do you plan some kind of API?
sxv 8y ago
See also: Mapnificent https://vimeo.com/16362921 https://vimeo.com/16362921 https://www.mapnificent.net/ https://www.mapnificent.net/
sammm 8y ago
Did you always have in mind that you wanted to sell it to zoopla/rightmove? What was your initial pain point that caused you to develop your idea?
- chillydawg 8y ago
  We had a rough plan of getting into the rental\sales listing game, using our map and search engine as the killer feature. Turns out to make any headway at all in that game you need big bucks as it's entirety marketing driven. We had way more features than this product and made exactly 0 money from it. We were pretty young and commercially incompetant though.
barrkel 8y ago
Would have been very useful to me back when I was buying my house. But I'm not sure that people like Rightmove etc. aren't on the side of property sales agents, who prefer customers that have less information. Rightmove is just a lead generation tool for an estate agent. Once someone walks in the door, they can bring them around to two or three properties, rather than just the property they saw on the website. Information about how hard it is to get to work, to a supermarket, etc. are just reasons not to buy.
dazbradbury 8y ago
We've actually had commute time search at OpenRent (https://openrent.co.uk https://openrent.co.uk) since launch (2012) - It's less prominent on our homepage now, and somewhat unloved, simply because the majority of people seem to ignore / not want it. The key to winning in the property space is definitely non-obvious, but I love to see innovative search tools popping up from time to time. Long may it continue!
- chillydawg 8y ago
  Do you want to buy a much better version? :D
  - dazbradbury 8y ago
    Feel free to reach out (email in my profile)
angarg12 8y ago
I'd love to have such a feature in RightMove or Zillow, to be able to search properties within say 30 minutes drive from work, instead of just faffing around in Google maps trying to guesstimate.
karthikb 8y ago
Would be super helpful for corporate offices. Input a list of employee home addresses and find commute time isoclines, or locations which minimize mean or median commute.

DanFau 8y ago

It is very interesting hat you had a similar idea, would you like to share your experience with me ? If so, can you send me an email at : contact@oalley.fr ?

entropie 8y ago
Do you plan some kind of API?

sxv 8y ago

See also: Mapnificent https://vimeo.com/16362921 https://vimeo.com/16362921 https://www.mapnificent.net/ https://www.mapnificent.net/

sammm 8y ago

Did you always have in mind that you wanted to sell it to zoopla/rightmove? What was your initial pain point that caused you to develop your idea?

chillydawg 8y ago
We had a rough plan of getting into the rental\sales listing game, using our map and search engine as the killer feature. Turns out to make any headway at all in that game you need big bucks as it's entirety marketing driven. We had way more features than this product and made exactly 0 money from it. We were pretty young and commercially incompetant though.

barrkel 8y ago

Would have been very useful to me back when I was buying my house. But I'm not sure that people like Rightmove etc. aren't on the side of property sales agents, who prefer customers that have less information. Rightmove is just a lead generation tool for an estate agent. Once someone walks in the door, they can bring them around to two or three properties, rather than just the property they saw on the website. Information about how hard it is to get to work, to a supermarket, etc. are just reasons not to buy.

dazbradbury 8y ago

We've actually had commute time search at OpenRent (https://openrent.co.uk https://openrent.co.uk) since launch (2012) - It's less prominent on our homepage now, and somewhat unloved, simply because the majority of people seem to ignore / not want it. The key to winning in the property space is definitely non-obvious, but I love to see innovative search tools popping up from time to time. Long may it continue!

chillydawg 8y ago
Do you want to buy a much better version? :D
- dazbradbury 8y ago
  Feel free to reach out (email in my profile)

angarg12 8y ago

I'd love to have such a feature in RightMove or Zillow, to be able to search properties within say 30 minutes drive from work, instead of just faffing around in Google maps trying to guesstimate.

karthikb 8y ago

Would be super helpful for corporate offices. Input a list of employee home addresses and find commute time isoclines, or locations which minimize mean or median commute.