An addictive easy way to shop for homes
Inman News, sort of the premier real estate news site, covers our launch and some of our features in an article today: The site also gives info on neighborhood market conditions such as number of homes currently on the market, average price, average square footage, and average time on the market, among other details. Each neighborhood includes links to popular...
I’d like to thank everyone who has given us such excellent feedback over the nearly two weeks since we launched. We thought you’d be pretty busy with Christmas and whatnot, so we saved the good post-launch news until life slowed down a little. So what’s new? In the time since we launched, we’ve been covered all over the web, including...
After getting great feedback from our beta testers, improving the site and squashing bugs, we’re opening our doors to let the public start searching for homes on our map-based real estate search site, ShackPrices.com. What is ShackPrices? ShackPrices.com is a snappy Google maps-based real estate search site that makes finding a home better by augmenting each real estate listing with...
Since our last post in June, you may have been asking yourself “has ShackPrices dropped off the face of the earth?” But you would be asking the wrong question. The right question is “what kind of awesome real estate search site has the ShackPrices team been working on?” Our totally unbiased answer to that question: pretty awesome. Currently a bunch...
ISO Innovative Analytics found that zip codes, particularly in dense urban areas, are insufficient for identifying your car insurance premium through some pretty awesome spatial analysis. They came up with a list of risk factors, with the biggest risk factor being living within a mile of a restaurant, followed closely by living near a grocery store. This research won’t affect...
We listened to the RadRails podcast today to see if there were any tricks that we should be using to harness the full power of RadRails. Instead we learned that there are a lot of bugfixes in the current release and that something in Ubuntu Linux (which I develop on) is broken and the developers “have no idea why.” We...