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by rgbrgb 11y ago
The problem is that nobody spends just $1 on lotto tickets. Many people who buy lotto tickets (mostly poor people) are spending a significant percentage of their yearly income on them [0]. I was at a gas station in the boonies a few weeks a
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Probably a caching layer on their side.
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
This is an awesome move. When I was at Amazon in SF I had a team mate who literally commuted around 90 minutes each way from Sunnyvale. This summer at Open Listings we built a product to help people shop for homes with short commutes [0]! H
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
We saw a similar traffic dip moving openlistings.co -> openlistings.com. Really thought that the domain mover tool in google webmaster tools would have taken care of it but we were unpleasantly surprised that it didn't. Luckily for
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Compatibility with the rest of the network is a user requirement.
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
This is a good point though I hear that written content is king from a long tail SEO standpoint. We've done a few of these "tools" at Open Listings and haven't had much luck with them in terms of SEO but the initial mini
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Shitty Listings 2.0: Less shitty(medium.com)
1 points by rgbrgb 11y ago|0 comments
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
People don't pay for "programmers" they pay for people to make products.
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
I won't pretend to know why everything is so fucked right now but I will make 2 points: 1) In general, the people actually doing the killings are far removed from the organization's leadership. Here's an interesting piece on
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Garden path sentence(en.wikipedia.org)
185 points by rgbrgb 11y ago|81 comments
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Prior work: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ :)
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Bulk of the "transaction cost" in sharing-economy transactions is measured in time (registering, shopping, messaging, verifying, negotiating, meeting). In the case of renting/borrowing that's pretty much a fixed cost ind
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
My bet is that Walmart will never sell marijuana. McDonalds, like other large companies could in 10 years when it's federally legal. What seems more likely to happen (and this is also what the SV investors and companies like Meadow[0]
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Defending A16Z(blog.garrytan.com)
49 points by rgbrgb 11y ago|48 comments
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
End of an era! While a lot of ex-founder partner/VC people seem to think mostly about nation-building, vision, and the marketing buzzwords you'd find on an analytics dashboard, Garry's advice is always extremely concrete and
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
I don't think you'll find much sympathy for the status quo in this crowd. We like fixing things.
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Putting my browser in a state where the back button doesn't let me leave the site is the definition of breaking the back button. Worse than those back button pop-ups that only fire once (this is like a popup that fires every time). Def
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Looks really cool! Pricing is the big stickler for me. I've been burned too many times to build any critical piece of my app with it without knowing how much it'll cost if it gets popular.
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Raph, awesome that you're hacking your own tools for homebuying! This is how our company started. If you're looking in California, let us know if there's a feature we could add to Open Listings to improve your search. Always
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
We have a similar setup and were wondering the same thing (though we use push state). Today we were actually trying to figure out a workaround for 502s and 504s that google crawler was seeing from prerender. We just took the plunge and remo
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
"Curiously, the actual use of the system resembled its name, which was intended to be spurious." Names are important.
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
We have a login gate on Open Listings [0]. I'm pretty torn on it. On the one hand we want to reduce friction for people to get to our detail pages. On the other hand, if you just browse a few listings, you might never understand our va
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
>> SLIGHTLY higher price than the 2nd place It's cool that you liked your agent but in our experience submitting hundreds of offers in SF and LA, 100% of the time we've come in with the highest price at comparable terms (wai
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Really appreciate the kind words. We'll do our best!
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Congrats on the sale! You could argue that "Zillow is going about this all wrong" if their goal was trying to improve the process of buying and selling homes or if they were trying to make it more affordable to buy a home. What yo
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Sure, but typically offers have 3 day expirations so you'll still have a window to go see the home and get an offer in if you like it. That said, the advice stands even if you're checking more than once a day -- only look at the n
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
In most places there's no real estate licensing law against the fee structure in question as long as they registered as a brokerage [0]. As an agent you can discount your fee as much as you want. At Open Listings we're actually op
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
I think that's a quirk of how this type of auction pricing works more than anything. If everything in the area is going for 20% over asking, then posting a listing for what you actually think it's going to go for will make it look
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
One point that this analysis misses is that there's often a significant delay between the time a property hits the market (lists on MLS) and the time it hits aggregators like Zillow [0]. If you're looking at week old listings in h
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by rgbrgb 11y ago
Anything specific you find hard to follow here?

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