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Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#31

Hey Larry, quick recommendation for your photo at the end - you should probably get a better professional photo that conveys reliability and confidence in your body language, or at the very least, flip the image so it draws readers' eyes toward the text. Ex. https://imgur.com/a/0tb01

Thanks for your comment. Working on this now!

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#32
post #26

This is such buzzword powered horseshit. Absolutely nothing about this problem domain requires Deep Learning. Simple regression models if implemented properly can do just fine. Not to mention that sites like Redfin/Zillow have access to far more data and already have pretty good models for the most part. Just because you can throw a Neural net at a given problem, doesn't make it the right thing to do... I'd be a lot…

Does it make it the wrong thing to do? I've never seen anyone so mad at someone for their technical decisions. Redin/Zillow et al won't show you cap rates.

It's not just technical decisions... the entire site is a single web-page with zero content except for trying to harvest emails. I mean, if you want people to spam such low quality stuff on HN, then I guess that's your prerogative. But I usually enjoy the much higher quality stuff that people post here on HN and I'd hate for the bar to drop this low.

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#33

This is such buzzword powered horseshit. Absolutely nothing about this problem domain requires Deep Learning. Simple regression models if implemented properly can do just fine. Not to mention that sites like Redfin/Zillow have access to far more data and already have pretty good models for the most part. Just because you can throw a Neural net at a given problem, doesn't make it the right thing to do... I'd be a lot…

As much as I like the phrase "buzzword-powered horseshit," there are always opportunities to apply new technologies in a creative way. In this case, it seems obvious to me that NNs will do a good job in identifying latent features that would otherwise slip past a linear model.

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#34

Hey Larry, quick recommendation for your photo at the end - you should probably get a better professional photo that conveys reliability and confidence in your body language, or at the very least, flip the image so it draws readers' eyes toward the text. Ex. https://imgur.com/a/0tb01

Really? I think the photo's OK.

Tie unloosened, good mix of casual + business like.

Can't detect any obvious lack of confidence.

Making his head point towards the text seems like one of those cheesy commercials where a smiling person points at the text next to them.

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#36

This reminds me of a question I've long had – is there no legal restriction on starting a real estate listing service?

IANAL but it looks like -- and it's hard to tell for sure, as there is no sample email -- OP's site is "Linking" w/ some additional data, not "Listing".

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#38

Pressing the button without entering an email results in a popup that says: Error! Please contact us at founders@larryscheaphouses.com and we'll figure out what's going on. Considering the number of people that are going to glance over the text and assume that the button lets them see the deals you might want to have some basic help text.

might want an about us page or something. and list the email.

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#39
post #34

Hey Larry, quick recommendation for your photo at the end - you should probably get a better professional photo that conveys reliability and confidence in your body language, or at the very least, flip the image so it draws readers' eyes toward the text. Ex. https://imgur.com/a/0tb01

Really? I think the photo's OK. Tie unloosened, good mix of casual + business like. Can't detect any obvious lack of confidence. Making his head point towards the text seems like one of those cheesy commercials where a smiling person points at the text next to them.

With regards to the last point, there's actual research to back this up: #3 with the headline "Directional Cues" https://blog.kissmetrics.com/eye-tracking-studies/

Also, looking down and away from another person is not confidence inspiring. I don't think I need to cite research in order to point that out.

Re: Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

#40

Hey Larry, quick recommendation for your photo at the end - you should probably get a better professional photo that conveys reliability and confidence in your body language, or at the very least, flip the image so it draws readers' eyes toward the text. Ex. https://imgur.com/a/0tb01

Thanks for your comment. Working on this now!

Didn't mean to come off as harsh, but it was distracting to me. Good luck on the launch!
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