travisleestreet

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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   so many l's and y's
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   thanks!
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   so epic
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   We don't have the drop coordinates part, but you can ask it '...within 1 hour commute by [transport] of [location]' and then it will create a polygon of all the places that match that.
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. We're still working out the ideal way to manage the search, lots of trade-offs depending on what route you go. But there's definitely room for improvement.
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   Yeah there are a couple big property portals. Zoopla mentioned above is the number 2 player, Rightmove is far and away #1
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   Mainly a mix of Gemini Flash 1.5 and Flash 2.0, depending on the task.
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   Thanks, appreciate the kind words
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   by travisleestreet 1y ago

   Agreed, we're working on this type of additive search at the moment. Just did a bunch of user testing on it yesterday.
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    by travisleestreet 1y ago

    For the image search portion specifically, we use Google’s embedding model. We then use vector search ( https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs/ai/run-vector-similari... ) to calculate the distance between the se
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    by travisleestreet 1y ago

    We don’t respect robots.txt because estate agents often block listing pages - not necessarily to prevent indexing, but for SEO reasons (Google penalises large sites with transient pages). That said, we do crawl responsibly i.e. we use reaso
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    by travisleestreet 1y ago

    For sure, those searches are more about showing what’s possible (and making browsing fun) than what a high-intent buyer would actually type in. That said, from speaking to a lot of London buyers, people are often more flexible on location t
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    by travisleestreet 1y ago

    For sure big real estate portals functionally work. People buy homes through them, even if the experience is clunky. But because they’re entrenched via massive network effects / SEO, and their actual customers are estate agents, there’
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    Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

    71 points by travisleestreet 2y ago|60 comments
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    by travisleestreet 13y ago

    - Write a sci-fi book - Start a pickled food business (kimchi) - Double my 2013 income
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    14 Companies That Will Hit the Tech Zeitgeist in 2014 (blog.nextmarket.co)

    1 points by travisleestreet 13y ago|0 comments
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    by travisleestreet 13y ago

    Love Froont - did some mockups and got valid HTML out of it in minutes. Genius.