I think you should change your colors in the main page. Here: http://imgur.com/L7OBTOB I was thinking how weird it was that Lex. Ave had a very bad safety score... where in fact it is just red for no reason, it is actually really safe. I only realized that when I scrolled down to the details and it told me the opposite ;)
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#12Is this where your getting all your info https://data.cityofnewyork.us/
It's weird to me that your usage case on the site is for an individual person, but you only offer monthly subscriptions. In my experience people usually aren't looking for a place for more than 30 to 60 days, so why would I want to buy into a monthly subscription model with usage caps. Kind of annoying to have to sign up then almost immediately cancel.
A smaller developer or investor would probably be more interested in a regular subscription.
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#13I think you should change your colors in the main page. Here: http://imgur.com/L7OBTOB I was thinking how weird it was that Lex. Ave had a very bad safety score... where in fact it is just red for no reason, it is actually really safe. I only realized that when I scrolled down to the details and it told me the opposite ;)
Ah, very good point. Never really considered that. We'll definitely discuss how we can make that more clear. Thanks!
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#14Is this where your getting all your info https://data.cityofnewyork.us/ It's weird to me that your usage case on the site is for an individual person, but you only offer monthly subscriptions. In my experience people usually aren't looking for a place for more than 30 to 60 days, so why would I want to buy into a monthly subscription model with usage caps. Kind of annoying to have to sign up then almost immediately c…
Yeah, some of the data comes from that site but we have a lot that actually isn't available anywhere online.
Agreed on the pricing. We're still trying to dial that in. I think a single 30 or 90 day access makes sense and then possibly a monthly subscription for real estate agents that want to provide reports to their clients.
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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.
Maybe you could display the data as it is loading?
So instead of making the user wait to see all the results you could show the user as the server drip feeds the results to the browser.
Just a suggestion.
You produce a lot of data but it is hard to make sense of it all, maybe some kind of comparison tool would be useful?
Also I am very curious how you managed to do the whole nearby celebrity address thing?
This actually has a lot of potential, but I am not sure if you could profit by selling this to real estate agents as something like this kind of makes their job obsolete.
Maybe you could target the renters demographic, people who rent generally switch locations more often (therefore more recurrent to your service) and are not as accommodated by real estate agents and other third parties (probably because they are not spending as much so no fat commissions).
I don't know your business model very well but another idea is maybe leaving the service free and placing advertisements. Your user demographic is looking to buy or rent a property - very valuable to advertisers. So maybe you should cache the pages you generate and add them to an automatically generated sitemap allowing google to index those and hopefully you will start appearing on search results for people looking to buy a property. If you want to be really aggressive you could scrape property listings off real estate websites and pre-generate those to be indexed by google with the intention of appearing on search results.
Sorry, I'm rambling here ;)