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travisleestreet

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    Comment #43440227

    so many l's and y's

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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.