Nice work! Curious about your tech-stack, if you don't mind sharing. Also what are your plans for monetizing, if any?
First time I've built with Hotwire, I'm not a front end eng by trade, but loved the devex.
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Nice work! Curious about your tech-stack, if you don't mind sharing. Also what are your plans for monetizing, if any?
First time I've built with Hotwire, I'm not a front end eng by trade, but loved the devex.
- I liked the 'surprise' button because I wasn't sure what to type in the search box. I'm so used to typing a location by default. - I like your examples in this HN post and also the categories below the fold. - I like that I can favorite things without registering an account. I've been experimenting with guest accounts and blank states on my site. - When I search for multiple words from the search tab, acts funny. "…
I like the idea! I typed in "futuristic" which got some wild results. The problem is that some properties will have one crazy photo of a single room (sometimes in the lobby of a block of flats) that is nothing like the rest of the property on offer. One property even showed the escalators of a local Underground station as its primary thumbnail, which were kinda futuristic looking.
It is an interesting product but I really do wonder if it is something users are asking for. In the market jitty is going for I would say that discovering what is on any given real estate website is not the big pain point.
What LLM’s are you using ?
And how is this working “Parses every photo through an embeddings vector space so that people can search for whatever they want”
Thank you
Can you run all your photos through a focal length/depth of field transform to match the human eye? Real estate agents like to bait and switch and waste people's time with glamorous photos that are made using focals lengths that are very different from actual humans.
It is an interesting product but I really do wonder if it is something users are asking for. In the market jitty is going for I would say that discovering what is on any given real estate website is not the big pain point.
I think what you're saying is there's that there’s deeper pain further down the value chain? If so, agreed. We think there’s an opportunity to solve some of that, and that building a better product / search experience at the top of the funnel makes it easier to fix problems later in the journey.