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by rgbrgb 12y ago
As a participating California brokerage, we're pulling directly from regional MLS servers. We don't have those areas yet but we're rolling out full CA coverage in the next month or so. Currently we have 100% MLS coverage in S
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Getting MLS data is hard. We had to become a registered California brokerage and join individual MLS organizations as participating agents. Each MLS runs on different servers with slightly different SOAP/XML APIs and slightly different
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Yes! If you want an API to put in an offer via HTTP request (curl a house!) please let me know at peter@openlistings.co. This is definitely on our list, but not super high yet but if you want it, we'll move it higher.
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Rails + MongoDB on the backend, Obj-C + Swift on iOS, Backbone + ReactJS in CoffeeScript for the web. We're polyglots!
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Thanks! We love new models like helpusell. We're coming at it from the other side -- we're completely focused on buyers. You can input any address in California and we'll make your offer. The listings we have on our site are
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Founders are on deck to answer any questions you guys have. We're really excited to be in YC!
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Open Listings (YC W15) Is Helping Homebuyers Hack Real Estate(techcrunch.com)
26 points by rgbrgb 12y ago|38 comments
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
All things equal, 2.1 gives slightly less dilution to current shareholders but the same positive "optics" as 2. Likewise, 1.9 gives slightly more equity to the VCs but a lot less prestige to the company their investing in (so argu
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
The broker/buyer conflict of interest in real estate is exactly what we're working on at Open Listings [1]. It's interesting to think about whether a flat-fee model like ours could work in domain brokering. It's kind of
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
I tried to compile this a while back on an ec2 micro and ran out of memory. Compiled binaries: http://phantomjs.org/download.html
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
It's an operating system: https://github.com/urbit/urbit
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Link: http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior...
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
This is a historically bad signal for market health but it's not all bad for hackers. More piranhas to watch out for but also more bizdev hustlers willing to help sell and/or raise money. Edit: I've personally been taken adva
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Ask HN: Baseline for web traffic?
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
At width 1000px to 1200px, "Secure Login via Keychain Access!" overlaps the graphic.
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
> something as inconsequential as a shopping website, or Yet Another Chat App Alright so first off, 150k will give you a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle in SF/SV (assuming you have no dependents, in which case it's jus
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Because he doesn't own that information and most likely signed legal documents forbidding him from revealing it.
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Not going to go into details but I'd guess you're underestimating the size of the codebase (and thus the complexity of certain site-wide changes) by at least two orders of magnitude. Imagine doing (and testing) a "simple chan
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Yes, they should do everything over HTTPS. I assure you they're moving in that direction, but they have thousands of pages and many different rendering technologies to deal with (after 20 years, some cruft and fragmentation is par for
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
I have been an enterprise Java dev. Of the things you mention us not doing, we did about half. We mocked external services for unit tests, used git, and did 2 week sprints. My boss had no say on the programming language we wrote services in
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Thanks. Sounds like they didn't really figure out what the problem was with the Erlang implementation but instead reimplemented with C++ systems that were existing, built in-house, and better understood. Makes total sense but shouldn&#
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
What did they switch to? Source?
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
>> “A lot of entrepreneurs are motivated to understand how to make their success repeatable,” says Prof. Williams. “But what they have to recognize is there’s a lot of luck involved in entrepreneurship, and most entrepreneurs in the t
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
So as to have more code on the page. It's official style of the Linux kernel [1]. [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
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Oplab: Audio interface for hackers(teenageengineering.com)
19 points by rgbrgb 12y ago|4 comments
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Dynamic analytics on a UIViewController(cantina.co)
1 points by rgbrgb 12y ago|0 comments
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Anecdotally and from the traffic numbers we've been able to get from top listings sites, people are shopping for houses on their phones. We saw that other listings products weren't doing a good job of transitioning to mobile and w
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
It's quite common to go to open houses without an agent or to ask the sellers agent to show you around. What that sellers agent was telling you sounds illegal, and I'd be very surprised if they wouldn't show you the house if
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Yes. Redfin has a similar model but they can't refund as much because they provide full-service agents.
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by rgbrgb 12y ago
Open Listings: https://www.openlistings.co/ We're trying to change the way people buy homes to make home ownership easier and more affordable. Basically if you want to put an offer in on a house, we'll represent y

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