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africajam

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About africajam

Rails and JS developer. Creator of https://rigove.co.uk

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    I'm genuinely curious - are you saying this because you know quite a bit about trademark violation?

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    Comment #49234925

    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 domin…

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    Comment #18978792

    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 …

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    Comment #18150261

    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/prop…

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    Comment #17632613

    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…

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    Comment #17548599

    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 f…

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    Comment #17037514

    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 n…

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    Comment #16755710

    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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    Comment #16754895

    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 a…

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    Comment #16665595

    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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    Comment #16585265

    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/RealEstateW…

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    Comment #16526722

    If you decide to open source your project, please share the link here. Thanks

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    Comment #16526719

    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 t…

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    Comment #16452867

    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…

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    Comment #16350230

    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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    Comment #16328247

    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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    Comment #16032725

    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 to…

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    Comment #16030212

    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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    Comment #15972318

    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. Fing…

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    Comment #15885251

    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 fillin…

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    Comment #15151427

    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…

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    Comment #15031516

    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. …