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travisleestreet
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Comment #43440227
so many l's and y's
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Comment #43440222
thanks!
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Comment #43433605
so epic
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Comment #43433496
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 t…
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Comment #43433481
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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Comment #43433465
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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Comment #43433452
Mainly a mix of Gemini Flash 1.5 and Flash 2.0, depending on the task.
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Comment #43433402
Thanks, appreciate the kind words
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Comment #43433396
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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Comment #43428895
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 calcula…
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Comment #43428716
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 …
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Comment #43428486
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…
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Comment #43428131
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 / SE…
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Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale
We're a small team of 3 engineers, and wanted to make a better way to look for for properties online. Traditional portals (esp. outside of US) are just a bit rubbish for doing anyt…
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Comment #6989613
- Write a sci-fi book - Start a pickled food business (kimchi) - Double my 2013 income
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Comment #5662336
Love Froont - did some mockups and got valid HTML out of it in minutes. Genius.