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by ezl 13y ago
Padmapper is really awesome. I think one of the reasons it were so successful was that it gave an alternate (better) UI for apartment search. People are visual and they know maps, but seeing lists is harder to parse. The fact that nobody el
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by ezl 13y ago
FWIW, I recommend www.rentshare.com for this. I use them to pay and receive rent (I'm a landlord and I rent my residence). Additionally, whenever landlords who use Rocket Lease (my rental application company) inquire about rent payment
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by ezl 13y ago
To reinforce your comment: Some of our customers have been bringing iPads to showings and asking prospective applicants to fill out digital applications on the spot.
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by ezl 13y ago
To put a number on it: 6% transaction fees you're talking about are probably in home sales. About 800B a year transacts in the US in home sales (existing home sales data: http://www.realtor.org/sites/default/
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by ezl 13y ago
I completely agree. Apartment search is, in my opinion, the hardest rental vertical to try to tackle, mostly because solutions the 2 sided market traction problem have been elusive. It also seems to be the most common one that founders atte
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Why Real Estate Tech Is So Attractive For Founders(blog.ezliu.com)
117 points by ezl 13y ago|112 comments
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by ezl 13y ago
@ 1. Craigslist style email obfuscation as a service. problem: i have a marketplace type website where my users would like to be contacted but not have their emails be made public. how it works: i set a subdomain of my site, mail.mysite.com
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by ezl 13y ago
Love this comment. Great UI is about words. Reminded me of this: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3404-reminder-design-is-still...
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Ruby Doesn't Give A Shit About Your Charm And Wit(blog.ezliu.com)
1 points by ezl 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A simple way to annotate code
8 points by ezl 13y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Entrepreneurs interested in escaping to Austin in Feb/Mar?
1 points by ezl 13y ago|0 comments
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by ezl 13y ago
I normally love SA's writing, but this opinion piece is really narrow minded and I think misses the point. cs702 had a fantastic comment a few days ago in another thread [1]: Bitcoin befuddles experts who analyze it from a narrow
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by ezl 13y ago
I've worked with Ryan several times now and referred him to friends who have all informed me afterwards that they intend to work with him again when they have an opportunity. Ryan has: 1. a slow, thoughtful approach to UI/UX desig
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by ezl 13y ago
i found it interesting that depreciation is expected on your property and houses are expected to have no resale value.
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Why Japan Is Crazy About Housing(archdaily.com)
153 points by ezl 13y ago|120 comments
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by ezl 13y ago
Zac Brown Band - keep me in mind
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by ezl 13y ago
Bid simulator is nice, but what I really wanted to highlight was the existence of profit maxima and the fact that it can be determined experimentally. In retrospect, Bid simulator is probably the best thing to use for a starting estimate of
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by ezl 13y ago
Google's 2009 internal research indicates this isn't true: http://adwords.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/conversion-rates-dont... "...on average, there is very little variation in conversion rates by posi
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by ezl 13y ago
there are general techniques for "seeding" search terms. Obviously the best approach is to have someone manually do it who understands the space to initially seed it. However, its hard to get a really nice long tail of keywords t
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How To Bid For Cost Per Click Campaigns(blog.ezliu.com)
113 points by ezl 13y ago|33 comments
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by ezl 13y ago
the price of bitcoin is skyrocketing. why? "more buyers than sellers"
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Best Practices In Conversion Rate Optimization Debunked(unbounce.com)
1 points by ezl 13y ago|0 comments
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by ezl 13y ago
the square blog post I referenced implements this better. they save tuples of (timestamp, location) and can therefore determine velocity (more or less). I used a really ghetto distance metric as a proxy for velocity and since the sampling
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by ezl 13y ago
I did. I really wanted to use it and have emailed back and forth with them several times over the last 2 years (from before they even had a product called hellosign -- when it was integrated into hellofax). it required account creation for
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by ezl 13y ago
I did look at it. It was my second choice and I would have used that if I didn't used Thomas Bradley's. I emailed Thomas Bradley when I was exploring options and he responded within an hour. Also, that repository was active (TB
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by ezl 13y ago
I was an organic chemistry TA for a professor who was notorious for having the hardest organic chemistry class at our school, but it was also widely considered that surviving his course meant that you truly understood the subject matter. He
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Kryptos(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ezl 13y ago|0 comments
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Smooth Online Signatures, Open Source(blog.ezliu.com)
167 points by ezl 13y ago|54 comments
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by ezl 13y ago
fwiw this really resonated for me because i'm a single founder in a semi-crowded space. my strategy for success is to basically have a much smaller scope and very narrow feature set, but to be crushingly better than the competition in
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Innovation is saying "No" to 1000 things(zurb.com)
60 points by ezl 13y ago|17 comments

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