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BTW, I feel some affinity for this just because I've been listening to Caleb Porzio's awesome "no plans to merge" podcast for so long. Good blend of entertaining and educational.

And there I was thinking it was going to be a parody site of Putin gone all Hitler..... Perhaps that Putler.

Kudos to you for your approach to competition!!

Caddy is awesome. Personally, I'm delighted with it and I'm glad Matt is here promoting it. The more people use it the better it gets.

Thanks for an awesome product Matt!!

Super simple but really fun:

https://github.com/awilliams/RTanque

So, some explanation is due here. My site is not ready for a public launch yet - I just made this post because of what I found out from testing with a small number of my friends. A few people followed my profile to find out what I am working on and now the cat's out of the bag - on the one hand I'm happy for the publicity but on the other hand I'm bummed that I'm not ready for it.

Believe me, the site was worse a few weeks ago - or at least a lot more basic. The feedback I got from the few people I showed that site to was quite positive though. As I made what I thought were improvements though I started getting more and more negative feedback hence the observation in my original post.

True, some of what I thought were improvements probably made the site worse. The lesson I've learnt is still valid though - I should have paid someone early on in the product development stage to take care of the UI.

I will pay someone this week to do that and hopefully launch properly sometime in June. I bet when I actually do a "Show HN" with a decent looking landing page it will not garner as much interest as this has - people love picking out mistakes!

Still, a big thank you to everyone who has provided feedback. I've fixed the obvious errors. Will tackle the others when I get the chance.

Good luck. If you decide to work on something in the real estate space, give me a shout ;)

Yeah, I didn't do a good job with the propertywebbuilder landing page. With propertysquares I paid a lot less attention to the landing page and found I was getting much better engagement!

Damn, I didn't think this post would get so popular. I actually forgot to update my profile here. My current project is https://propertysquares.com :(

I should have phrased it better. By "better" landing pages I meant more polished with well thought out fonts, colors, text etc.

Yeah, I probably should. In any case for the next Show HN I do I think I will deliberately have a lofi landing page and see how that goes ;)

Shame your Ask HN did not get traction. Might be worth posting it again. It is a bit of a lottery on here.

Interesting. Wonder if in some cases this negative trait actually leads to success....

Great news for the real estate sector.

I actually built an open source project for scraping real estate websites several years ago: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

Might be time to go back and update it ;)

I sent a few messages myself. Didn't get any replies but it is such an easy thing to do that I see no harm it trying it.

Even if it takes 10,000 messages to make 1 person change their mind it would be worth it for me.

So why is this not on the front page. I don't quite understand.

Crawling with ads. Unusable :(

This is awesome! Awesome enough that I actually don't mind that it has ads. I checked out my project (https://www.libhunt.com/etewiah/property_web_builder ) and even though the alternatives were not bang-on, there is a button to suggest alternatives so the results can be improved.

What I really like though are the mentions. I'll keep coming back to that page if only to keep an eye on where my project is getting mentioned.

Really nice idea!! I started building a product for creating single property pages over a year ago. One of the things I got asked was a way to use it to manage tasks / inventories for a home. At the time I was not able to implement that but I'm now thinking of going back to do that.

In the meantime I open sourced it so people can add functionality and take it in the direction they want.

This was the feedback I got on hacker news when I first discussed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24339608

There has got to be a big market opportunity for people who create "wordpress for xxxx" - alternatives for different sectors.

The sector where WordPress gets "mis-used" most is real estate. It really isn't designed for that usecase: https://smallbusinessforum.co/why-an-alternative-to-wordpres...

See related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509132

Just adding the word log4shell so people searching for that keyword find this more easily.

Hi, I think it is great that you are making the effort to open source your project. I did the same with a real estate website builder I created:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

It was a lot of work but I now have a small stream of people who contact me every so often about it.

BTW, you seem like a smart guy and I am looking for someone to work with me on a relaunch of the project as a paid product. I have learnt a lot in the years since my first attempt so I think I have a pretty decent chance of success this time round.

Thanks, will give that a go. There must be some way to alert google too right? It is pretty bad that they serve it up as a legitimate search result. You would expect the real github to be recognized and any other duplicate flagged automatically as fake.

Very nice!!!

Care to share a bit about the tech stack?

BTW, this is the project I am referring to:

https://github.com/pyxo-dev/vint

It is not mine and of course I will add a star shortly because it deserves it but I am blown away that I would be the first to recognise what a great project it is.

You rock dude!!

I see you made some submissions that didn't get a lot of traction. HN sucks like that - sometimes you need someone else to give your project visibility. Hope you get some well deserved publicity now.

REMOTE, Global I'm the founder of PropertyWebBuilder (https://propertywebbuilder.com/) a product for building real estate websites. The open source version has been going for years but I only started the paid SAAS version this year. I am technical and have built everything myself. (Ruby On Rails site with a Vue js admin panel). Would prefer a technical co-founder though at this stage someone with good business and marketing skills could work well. Plan to raise a seed round within a few months.

Reach me here https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-tewiah-8984231/ or via email: ed @ the domain above.

Initially it does sound impossible but yes, as I thought about it my opinion changed. But what really freaks me out is the implication of this. At some point humans could add more knowledge about the planet to the planet that ever existed on the planet. Can this be extrapolated beyond our planet? What would that mean?

I bought the domain applesupportfails.com out of anger at getting poor customer service from apple but have so far failed to get it off the ground. Perhaps I need to reach out to Rossmann to get some support....