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I never went into game dev. I started off as a junior in web development, worked my way up to contracting for some UK financial services companies working on some large projects. More recently I’ve spent the better part of a year on my own startup in proptech.

Game dev was something that appealed to me when I was younger (mainly because of Roblox) but I never really considered a career in it.

What is proptech?

It’s a term being thrown around at least in the U.K. - property technology, solving problems in real estate with technology.

My startup is over at https://propertyengine.co.uk if you want to take a look :)

Good luck!

The flowing banner of properties photos and short info makes me feel uneasy.

Thanks for the feedback :) Actually replacing the homepage with something a bit cleaner in a few days for that reason!

That's a cool looking startup. I can see from the sample report that most of the data is aggregated from publicly available info.

I'm assuming you are scraping the property pictures from a realestate sale site (in Australia the market is dominated by realestate.com.au). How are you getting around copyright issues?

Also, who is your target customer? I'm curious who requires $50 of property reports every month. Is it real estate agents using this a quick way to generate brochures/flyers?

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