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You might want to have someone proofread your site. Maybe hire a professional copywriter.

> Unlike FSBO websites with flat fee listings, no MSL listing or co-broke fees exist.

That's not a sentence, and the rest of that paragraph is pretty bad as well.

> About us

> PropBox is a company of humans with shared beliefs ...

That sounds great if your target market is Marianne Williamson, but I think most people would look at the About page to find out more about the owner(s) of your company and their experience in the real estate market. A home is the single biggest asset that most people own. Are they going to trust the sales process to a nameless, faceless URL with no discernible address or contact information?

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I couldn't agree with you more. The problem is that I am bootstrapping this project and my son says he doesn't want me bagging groceries at Wal-Mart when I'm ninety. While I have done well financially in life, I have also had some major hiccups. I have learned more in projects that failed than I ever did with the successful ones. I am hopeful that consumers will come to understand the real value of PropBox so when it starts to scale, lots of people will want to invest. YC has turned me down at least 3 times. On your nameless question, I am willing to be named as the founder, but the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have been battling the industry since the 1950s.[1] In one of the reports they published, I recall it was named the Butters Report, they interviewed cut-rate brokers, some of whom mentioned threats of personal harm, property damaged, a building set on fire. If people were doing that in the fifties, it could be much worse today. I don't want my developers endangered trying to do the right thing. I may be a bit over the top, but the real estate industry is a bit like a union. One cut rate broker recently called NAR a cartel, and they haven't found Jimmy Hoffa yet. I also am a low key person, and the culture we want want to build isn't around me. But you make a good point. I will take your suggestion under advisement. [1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/485/

> Unlike FSBO websites with flat fee listings, no MSL listing or co-broke fees exist.

what's wrong with that sentence? subject is "fees", verb is "exist".

You're right! I had the worst time parsing that sentence. I read it as a series that lacked an Oxford comma.

Yes, please check out the two posts above. We take every comment seriously. I am overwhelmed with the help the Hacker News community is providing us. We deeply appreciate it. Thank you.

I agree with you. I answered a similar comment directly above yours. Paul Graham says don't try to make the site perfect, get it out the door as fast as you can. Hopefully it will begin to scale and we will hire a designer to help. Thank you for weighing in I (we) are listening, and responding candidly. We will behave the same way with our customers. This is good practice. ;)

Hang in there Montgomster, congratulations on your SaaS!

As I see it, it is missing something like:

>Unlike what is common on other FSBO websites with flat fee listings, no MSL listing or co-broke fees exist.

Without it, it seems that in the first part of the sentence the subject is FSBO websites, so that the implied subject of the second part of the sentence is "this site".

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