tndibona

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   by tndibona 4y ago

   Good point. IANAL too, But I can’t imagine copyrights on work that didn’t even belong to Zillow. It’s not creative content like a movie. They are just collecting data off existing sources. I could also argue that I’m redistributing the comp
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   by tndibona 4y ago

   Is probably correct. There is another comment in this post and I did some investigation. The 3.89 million dollar property was erroneously entered as 389 million.
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   by tndibona 4y ago

   I mean, I think I have some idea. The problem is more on the affordability side. I had to scale up the containers in my cluster to cope with the increase in 502s. I live with the fear of a high AWS bill. Then there is the question of the pr
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   by tndibona 4y ago

   Thanks for your words!
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   by tndibona 4y ago

   Good suggestion. Next iteration will surely have this
6. 66.▲
   by tndibona 4y ago

   I’m glad this project helped!
7. 67.▲
   by tndibona 4y ago

   Thanks for the report. I found the problem . Look here https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14-Eton-Way-Mill-Valley-C... If you scroll down you’ll see they made an error listing the property at 389million instead of 3.89
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   by tndibona 4y ago

   Fun fact. I used a beautiful image I took of cordoba Spain from the top of the mezquita as the backdrop. Someone on Reddit called me a Brazilian slum lord :(. So I put this San Francisco stock image
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   by tndibona 4y ago

   The problem is the source isn’t one place. The source is a collection of 500 MLSes across North America. They have a vested interest in keeping the data accessible only for licensed realtors. Striking a conversation with 500 MLSes would be
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Could you try now? I made hacker news front page so my site is getting hit with traffic and the proxy service data limit maxed out. I’ve just topped up the account.
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    The bigger challenge is not the ftp integration per say. The fact that all the housing data is distributed across nearly 500 MLS sites that closely guard their data and make it available only to licensed realtors. I would expect each of the
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    As a prototype, now the data is fetched from Zillow and cached. I’d have to start saving data to disk and run queries for what your asking. Which is possible, I’m trying to buy time to build this out. I need to attract investment also. Than
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    I can do a lot more. But this whole thing is a house of cards because I’m relying on Zillow who can shut me down anytime. I need one of Zillow/ RedFin / MLS companies to agree to allow me to formally use their data. Then, I can st
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Hello there. OP here! your site is similar. The UI is better than mine. Can we exchange notes?
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Thanks. I’ll fix it.
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Hey thanks for this. Im looking at this. But I’d still have to download spreadsheets and the data is aggregated by regions bigger than zipcodes I think. Im hoping my site offers a simple and straightforward experience
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Read the whole article. How can I compete with a cartel? I’m doomed. Maybe take this idea as-is and switch countries to the British market is also an idea I’m thinking
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. My original plan was to load the data “live” as obtained using web sockets but that damn socket.io is proving to be unreliable. I’ll land up doing something like you recommended. As for the “loading property of unde
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Yeah. I feel like Zillow will pretend like all this data somehow belongs to them when it belongs to the public.
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Is correct. The proxy service… it’s slower on the responses from the logs
21. 81.▲
    by tndibona 4y ago

    I’m hoping the message and presentation makes the difference. It was hard for me to follow the multi coloured ratio lines on the graph.
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Thanks for your kind words
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Yep I’m aware of this but I’m trying to beat them with the simple UI and straight forward messaging.
24. 84.▲
    by tndibona 4y ago

    Rofl. No! Got priced out after having bid 35k over asking price. Because you know, people have more money… I’m renting in NJ right now. Hoping this side gig leads somewhere
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    The secure link is an awesome idea, thanks
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Good suggestion. Noted for future work
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    I would be very happy if my project gains attention from a product manager from Zillow and they say “Why don’t we just let him pay for the data”. I’m unable to get their attention and they’re very cryptic about their GraphQL API spec.
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Yes lol. Realtor.com is also scrapable so that’s the immediate backup. Long term I have to speak FTP csv files from a bunch of archaic MLS integrations. If I need to go that route, I need money.
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Afaik, US Supreme Court has ruled that it is not illegal to scrape public data for a similar case with LinkedIn. As for me being a pain for Zillows bandwidth - I’ve requested them umpteen times to allow me to pay for their API. They just si
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    by tndibona 4y ago

    Please reach out “info at pillr.io” . FYI, I’m a single person, not a big company.