africajam

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by africajam 1mo ago
Every year rightmove uses statistics about how much time people spend on their website to justify raising prices. Sellers, buyers and agents end up paying for the "htm" (hidden toll machine) that is rightmove. The more we can chip
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by africajam 1mo ago
Ha ha, nice. Annoying though that rightmove have become seen now as synonymous with house hunting in the UK. They are massively abusing that position and there is a £1.5bn claim against them in the courts right now. I really hope they lose
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by africajam 1mo ago
I'm genuinely curious - are you saying this because you know quite a bit about trademark violation?
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by africajam 1mo ago
I put my flat in the UK on the market recently and it has given me a lot of insights into how broken the real estate market is! One thing I found particularly annoying is how dominant rightmove is and how much of the traffic for house hunti
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by africajam 8y ago
Yes, I have fond memories of hanging out in their offices above beta house. Amazingly welcoming bunch of people and one of the best things about the Berlin tech scene for me. Hope it works out well for them. I know they were never in it f
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by africajam 8y ago
Nice tool - what tech stack are you using? I built this with Ruby on Rails and would love to see people using it for projects like what you've done: https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder If you are inter
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by africajam 8y ago
Introduce yourself here: https://talk.birmingham.io/ Its a very friendly bunch of geeks - someone there might be able to help. There is a fair amount of tech activity in Birmingham so you could get lucky. Good luck.
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by africajam 8y ago
Its a great idea but as someone pointed out, it seems more like a feature than a full product. You would also benefit from targeting a specific market. I create a website builder for the real estate sector and I started off by open sourcin
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by africajam 8y ago
Very well presented website - I like it a lot. Would be interesting to see some reports about the real estate plugins available for Wordpress. I did a quick review myself and did not find any really high quality plugins but would be good t
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by africajam 8y ago
Yeah, I hope its something like that because if he actually thinks the commit is a good idea then he really is taking the piss.
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by africajam 8y ago
I got this pull request today and it really makes me wonder if U shouldn't just close down my open source project. For me its the equivalent of someone sticking a finger up at me after eating the free lunch I just gave them.....
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A pull request to remove credit for my own open source project(github.com)
2 points by africajam 8y ago|3 comments
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by africajam 8y ago
Not an abandoned project but I really could do with some help on this open source website builder for the real estate sector: https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder
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by africajam 9y ago
For anyone looking to build a product that relies on aggregating real estate data I've built an open source web scraper specifically for real estate: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper
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by africajam 9y ago
If you decide to open source your project, please share the link here. Thanks
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by africajam 9y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing! I built a simple scraper and I need to add background processing etc: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper Will dig into your code to see what I can learn.
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Why I am migrating from Ember.js to Vue.js(medium.com)
1 points by africajam 9y ago|0 comments
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by africajam 9y ago
Hi there, a sector in which web scraping is quite important is real estate. I have written an open source scraper for that sector (using Nokogiri and Ruby on Rails): https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_sc
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by africajam 9y ago
Would alway appreciate some help with this: https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder It is an open source real estate website builder
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by africajam 9y ago
I'm hoping so though from where I am now it looks like it will be a long road ahead ;) https://opencollective.com/property_web_builder
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by africajam 9y ago
This project started as a way to import listings into an open source website builder I created. Right now it effectively scrapes single pages that the user provides. It won't be too hard to enable crawling so that from one page it dis
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Show HN: PropertyWebScraper – scrape real estate listings for fun and profit(github.com)
4 points by africajam 9y ago|5 comments
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by africajam 9y ago
Listening to classical music really helps me. It took a while for it to make a difference but now it has become my way of signalling to my brain that its time to concentrate.
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by africajam 9y ago
I signed up with opencollective some weeks ago and yesterday got my first backer: https://opencollective.com/property_web_builder . Only $2 a month but it still cheered me up. Fingers crossed it gains some momentum over t
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by africajam 9y ago
I've created an open source project for scraping real estate sites: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper You could use it to save people the trouble of filling out all the details for their p
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by africajam 9y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Madrid, Spain | REMOTE PropertyWebBuilder is an open source real estate website builder. A few users are interested in a mobile app client and I am looking for someone who can create an iOS client for it. Looking to ha
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by africajam 9y ago
I've built a real estate listings website from scratch using Ruby on Rails. It was harder than I expected but now I have a solid base from which I can build functionality quickly. The best part is that I open sourced it! Check it out
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Lessons from a real estate hack(geekestateblog.com)
1 points by africajam 9y ago|0 comments
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by africajam 9y ago
I recently got offered $10,000 for my open source real estate website builder (PropertyWebBuilder) on condition I close down the project. Turned it down but still not entirely sure if it was the right decision.
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by africajam 9y ago
This is awesome! I don't understand why this hasn't got more upvotes. I've just created a forum for my project: https://gitq.com/etewiah/property_web_builder Now time to get people talking about it ;)

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