Show HN: Revaluate – Real Estate Analytics
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Show HN: Revaluate – Real Estate Analytics
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Re: Show HN: Revaluate – Real Estate Analytics
#2We just launched our new startup this morning. Huge thanks to the HN community for advice and feedback. It's been a great journey so far. Any new feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Re: Show HN: Revaluate – Real Estate Analytics
#3How do you get all the data though? No home owner is going to give you this data. And what is you have something wrong on there, and a owner sues you for it, because your lower rating might adversely affecting their sale.
Re: Show HN: Revaluate – Real Estate Analytics
#4How do you get all the data though? No home owner is going to give you this data. And what is you have something wrong on there, and a owner sues you for it, because your lower rating might adversely affecting their sale.
That's a fair question. A lot of the data comes from complaints and reports filed through local government agencies. We try to be very objective with the data and present it to the consumer so they can judge for themselves.
We have also talked about the idea of allowing building owners to comment or make a request to prove that issues in a building have been fixed. Though that would be a little ways down the road.
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#5How do you get all the data though? No home owner is going to give you this data. And what is you have something wrong on there, and a owner sues you for it, because your lower rating might adversely affecting their sale.
That's a fair question. A lot of the data comes from complaints and reports filed through local government agencies. We try to be very objective with the data and present it to the consumer so they can judge for themselves. We have also talked about the idea of allowing building owners to comment or make a request to prove that issues in a building have been fixed. Though that would be a little ways down the road.
Good service. I can totally see myself using this one, but I am in Canada. There will be a bit of risk in this service, and that's ok, not everyone will be happy. it is like carfax, or even like yelp for houses. It requires a bit of polish though. I looked at the sample report, and upon clicking a link give some indication that the data is loading. i clicked 3 4 times before knowing the data is loading. Chronological order of reports/issues should be latest first. Right now, I saw 1997 report on top.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a fair question. A lot of the data comes from complaints and reports filed through local government agencies. We try to be very objective with the data and present it to the consumer so they can judge for themselves. We have also talked about the idea of allowing building owners to comment or make a request to prove that issues in a building have been fixed. Though that would be a little ways down the road.
Good service. I can totally see myself using this one, but I am in Canada. There will be a bit of risk in this service, and that's ok, not everyone will be happy. it is like carfax, or even like yelp for houses. It requires a bit of polish though. I looked at the sample report, and upon clicking a link give some indication that the data is loading. i clicked 3 4 times before knowing the data is loading. Chronological…
Thanks so much for the feedback. The loading is still something we're trying to improve. It's pulling in a large amount of data that takes a bit of time. I think we'll end up doing a nightly roll-up of that data to help improve page load times.
I'll take a look at the chronological sorting issue. From a first glance it is working for me but it could be something else going on. Thanks again for the feedback.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good service. I can totally see myself using this one, but I am in Canada. There will be a bit of risk in this service, and that's ok, not everyone will be happy. it is like carfax, or even like yelp for houses. It requires a bit of polish though. I looked at the sample report, and upon clicking a link give some indication that the data is loading. i clicked 3 4 times before knowing the data is loading. Chronological…
Thanks so much for the feedback. The loading is still something we're trying to improve. It's pulling in a large amount of data that takes a bit of time. I think we'll end up doing a nightly roll-up of that data to help improve page load times. I'll take a look at the chronological sorting issue. From a first glance it is working for me but it could be something else going on. Thanks again for the feedback.
See the elevator in frequent need of repair page pop-up. 1997 report is first. I do not know how the data is being sorted, maybe give user the power to sort it?
Also, I just noticed that the data is actualy quite comprehensive. You have a lot of fluff in-between the detailed data. Dashboard, then some picture carousel, and then map. But the cream of the crop data is buried below. That data is really awesome, pest control, neighbourhood crimes. I am not a UI /UX person, but there has to be a better visual representaion for it. I like how you mention milestones and even famous celebrities in the vicinity, but at first it seems a bit confusing at to what purpose those pictures serve until it hits you. I did not even scroll down at first. I just stopped at dashboard, clicked the reports and that's it. Really good idea, polish it really well. I know a bit superficial advice, but you can get this thing going pretty well. Offer a one-time service too for $20 or so.
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#8Just FYI, the top nav rolls down when screen width is narrow: http://cl.ly/image/0k2j34200n38
Otherwise, this looks cool. I work in the real-estate space, so it's nice to see some innovative ideas coming through. You mentioned in another comment that you use public data but try to be very careful about what goes in. How do you do that? With humans or with automated tools?
Looks fantastic either way. Good luck. I'd like to see what you can come up with in other cities.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks so much for the feedback. The loading is still something we're trying to improve. It's pulling in a large amount of data that takes a bit of time. I think we'll end up doing a nightly roll-up of that data to help improve page load times. I'll take a look at the chronological sorting issue. From a first glance it is working for me but it could be something else going on. Thanks again for the feedback.
See the elevator in frequent need of repair page pop-up. 1997 report is first. I do not know how the data is being sorted, maybe give user the power to sort it? Also, I just noticed that the data is actualy quite comprehensive. You have a lot of fluff in-between the detailed data. Dashboard, then some picture carousel, and then map. But the cream of the crop data is buried below. That data is really awesome, pest con…
Cool, I'll check out the sorting issue some more.
That's great feedback as well. We'd debated whether we needed to put a heading above the celebrity carousel and decided to leave it out. I guess we might want to add that in.
Totally agree that the meat of it is down in those datatables. One of our top priorities is to figure out a way to better visualize that. It'll also make the page load much quicker since all that raw data is a lot of HTML to render and send across the wire.
We're still trying to figure out pricing and at this point just want people to use it for free so we can get feedback and iterate and improve before we think about charging. Thanks again for the great feedback.
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#10Just FYI, the top nav rolls down when screen width is narrow: http://cl.ly/image/0k2j34200n38 Otherwise, this looks cool. I work in the real-estate space, so it's nice to see some innovative ideas coming through. You mentioned in another comment that you use public data but try to be very careful about what goes in. How do you do that? With humans or with automated tools? Looks fantastic either way. Good luck. I'd li…
Thanks for the feedback! I actually did notice that issue you mentioned on an iPad this morning (adding a new link to the top yesterday broke it).
In terms of the data collection, currently it's a mix of manual and automated. We're pushing to get is all automated so it'll be easier to maintain and expand.