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Actually, they're very different from most others, in that they're a vertically integrated brokerage rather than just connecting you to random brokers who adver
by ericd 8y ago
Actually, they're very different from most others, in that they're a vertically integrated brokerage rather than just connecting you to random brokers who advertise through them a la Zillow.
- paulie_a 8y agoI worked in the technology side of real estate for a decade, they really are nothing special. It's marketing buzz and same old thing.
- ericd 8y agoWhat did you work on, specifically? I was the founder/CEO of one of the real estate apps that you claim they're not too different from, and I disagree. I know there's not much that's sexy from a technical perspective about running what is effectively a tech-heavy discount brokerage at scale, but it allows them to offer a fundamentally better UX than Zulia or any of the pure leadgen sites can. And there's a huge amount of code involved in running the ops on an organization like that, which a pure search app doesn't have to write/maintain. It's really selling them short to say their only difference is marketing.