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Real Estate Developer. Software should eat my industry. I find a bit of what I read here to be quite interesting.
by manic85 5y ago
Real Estate Developer. Software should eat my industry. I find a bit of what I read here to be quite interesting.
- MattGaiser 5y agoEh, as a dev with family in real estate development, I can see why it hasn't. Zoning and building codes alone seem like an enormous impediment to scaling anything there.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI am in real estate development. I would be surprised to find out how software could help with the political aspect, which in my opinion l, is the most volatile and difficult part.
- manic85 5y agoThe politics can't really be addressed by software, true. However, much of development is actually process and project management with complicated non-intuitive workflows. I think there's potential for software to help. do something like - for a given municipality, what size building can I build under a specific set of planning assumptions, and what is the process for obtaining the necessary permits and approvals to build that building?
- cableshaft 5y agoSomehow there's a decent amount of tech in the healthcare space, which has a lot of codes and regulations as well. Which I also don't understand as it seems like more trouble than it's worth sometimes (I worked for a corporation that was in that field at one point, we were expected to make big changes almost every year when new laws got passed).
- MattGaiser 5y agoIn healthcare I imagine that they are at least somewhat universal across an industry or sub field or country. At the very least insurance forces some standardization. A town of 10K might have a completely separate building code and zoning categories.
- zhdc1 5y agoWhat pain points do you see that can be helped by software? : )
- manic85 5y agoSee my response to lots of pulp above. Would be happy to chat about this further, if you are interested in doing a user needs interview.