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thlt
14y ago
hi, thanks for the great ideas.
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14y ago
Yeah all the content is from Wikipedia. Some very first places were not attributed properly, the newest ones are. We'll fix them soon. Thanks for the feedback.
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thlt
14y ago
ooop I didn't think about this, it should be fixed now. Thanks for the feedback.
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thlt
14y ago
yup not mobile friendly yet :)
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thlt
14y ago
Hi thanks, we have collected data from different sources for bootstrapping.
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thlt
14y ago
hi thanks for the report, I'll investigate the issue soon.
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thlt
14y ago
yeah this is in the plan. There should be no limitation in order to get better.
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thlt
14y ago
hey the site is made by @cravify :)
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14y ago
I bet both location and scenery are important as you'll consider where to visit first. Wouldn't it great to know somewhere is very beautiful and just close to you ? It is also very helpful when you travel as you don't want to miss any beaut
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14y ago
We cluster them as how http://cravify.com works.
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14y ago
yeah it's pretty useless, I'll change it to district and country where the place belongs to.
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14y ago
it is different in many terms like mostbeautifulplaces.org focuses on the true beauty of that place, that's it. Also it is crowd-sourced, meaning that any one from all over the world can help discover great places on earth.
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14y ago
not yet, mb coming later.
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Show HN: The most beautiful places on earth
(mostbeautifulplaces.org)
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thlt
14y ago
DEAR ALL, Please vote up so that more people know about Cravify. Thanks a bunch.
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14y ago
Hope you all the best :)
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thlt
14y ago
Updated, thanks :).
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thlt
14y ago
Hi, Flat for rent/Flat for share is indeed just the category name, info of houses are included in the database too. I reckon this is too misleading, and should be changed soon.
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thlt
14y ago
nice to see another tool to search for properties, however hijacking is always not a good way to advertise your service - to be honest.
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14y ago
ah ha, 1.3 is actually 1 :D, some people prefer a smooth transition (like me :D), so this will be taken into consideration.
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14y ago
yup additionally our robots check all the listings very often, even though they might still miss out some of them.
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thlt
14y ago
Our approach is collaboration filtering amongst house hunters + machine learning. Keep an eye on this ;).
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14y ago
yup this needs to be taken seriously.
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14y ago
I think you nailed it. Definitely the way to go.
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14y ago
it's more of the backend work than frontend thou :).
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14y ago
The idea of marking mobile numbers is excellent, very useful!!! Flat for rent/Flat for share is indeed just the category name, info of houses are included in the database too.
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14y ago
2) That's absolutely true. We are at the moment like Google for rent and not controlling the data. When the users can post ad on our platform, we definitely notice this point.
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14y ago
Dear MehdiEG, thanks a bunch for pointing them out. 1) We are indeed trying to solve this problem, our approach is collaboration amongst house hunters. Users who found scam/expired properties can report them, then other won't find it. We al
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yeah this kind of problem does happen in many property sources. At the moment the users can report "Expired ad" so those properties won't appear again. We are brainstorming hard to tackle this tricky problem.
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14y ago
Upgraded, the message now displays much less often :).
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