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I tried building software in the real-estate space and its very difficult to break in and change consumer behavior. You can see what I was working on here (http
by thesimpleman 2y ago
I tried building software in the real-estate space and its very difficult to break in and change consumer behavior. You can see what I was working on here (https://findur.io https://findur.io). The app is active but the business is shut down. I just leave it up to have as a portfolio project at this point. I've learned many hard lessons from doing this journey.
Lessons learned that might help you guys out:
- Consumers want everything Zillow has. Until you actually build Zillow AND THEN start to innovate on top of that, people won't come.
- Zillow is developing the "everything app" for home buyers. Read their quarterly reports you'll get insight to what they are doing
- Consumers in this market won't pay for a service give Zillow and others are free. Market is tough
- Brokers are paying other fees and don't want to buy additional software.
- Realtors are not doing well in this market so this must be a huge value add or they won't come. They also require a mobile version because they are on the road a lot.
- Validate that your company is not just a "feature" but truly something different. A lot of times, Zillow can just build out the feature itself. It already has a first pass at using LLMs for search
- saym 2y agoI appreciate this community when I see replies like this. Friendly, humble advice is hard to come by in this world.