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Show HN: Paste a Zillow URL and get a property analysis

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Hey HN,

I love scrolling through Zillow and spend way too much time thinking a property is gonna be my next home just to find a couple of days of research later what’s the catch.

I built this property analyzer to get a quick overview of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” (love spaghetti westerns) for the property. In ~30-45s you get a pretty comprehensive analysis of the history, risks, and everything else about the property, on top of a short AI-generated podcast going over the details.

Users can also comment on properties (a feature I always wish I had on Zillow) and guess the final sale price.

Built the podcast part of this with Podcastfy - a great open source library to generate NotebookLM-like pods!

You can try it yourself for free with any Zillow for sale listing URL. Would love any feedback on how I could make this better!

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WARNING: Pasting in a Zillow link will immediately try to log you in via an oath provider.

This is a seriously sketchy UX pattern, I advise avoiding this website.

Really shitty. Avoid.

I wouldn’t say it’s sketchy. They want people logged in to get the analysis.

It’s a horrible UX pattern. At the very least, it should be obvious that I have to login to get the analysis, not immediately shoot over to a google login.

Ideally, it’d be nice if they did a basic analysis of the property link and required login to get more details.

Good idea, thanks.

Didn't know people would get this triggered by this UX pattern tbh. I had it before with a modal that prompted the user to login but figured this might just be easier / faster?

I'll readd the modal though.

Lol. I used to have a modal till yesterday that asked users to login with Google then removed it as I figured it was just extra friction; didn't realize it was this much of a red flag for websites... I'll readd it, thanks for the feedback.

Pre-redirect modal is back.

It's a dark pattern regardless. You should be upfront LOUD and clear that login will be required. If people are complaining it's because you're not LOUD and clear enough.

There's a reason that you only see this UX pattern on sleezy lead gen and "Find People Now" stalker'ish sites. And even then they'll give you basic information for free and grab your email and/or money for more "value".

Why does the analysis progress bar pause if you switch to another tab? Please respect your user's time. They have other things to do besides stare at the waiting screen and read marketing copy.

It shouldn't unless you're on mobile from what I've noticed. Will take a look.

Why does the analysis progress bar pause if you switch to another tab on mobile?

Zillow already has the property history, the risks, the neighborhood details, etc. no?

Yes, some of the data is already available on Zillow. The idea is to aggregate a few different data sources and then turn it into a more digestible and holistic property analysis if that makes sense.

It's an interesting concept but I noticed crime is mentioned in 4 separate bullet points, and three are nearly the same.

* High Crime Rates

* High Total Crime Rate

* High Property Crime Rate

Maybe this can be simplified.

Definitely- the AI-summary part still needs a lot of work. Thanks for the feedback.

Does this add any external information that is not present on the source Zillow page? If not, this seems like AI slop.

I like the idea of Zillow comments and guessing sale price though. It should be possible to comment on any web page.

Seems not.

I plugged in my house just to see. It's all public info anyway... it couldn't find the construction year (public), renovation year (public permits), recent sales (public), it called my taxes high (wrong), it considered _all_ of Brooklyn for price comparables (wrong), ...

So for the comps section it looks for properties in a 1-mile radius. For the market data, that's based on your zipcode. Hope this helps.

You could walk a mile in NYC and traverse 5 distinct real estate markets.

Right I guess NYC is a very unique market in that but good point, thanks.

Yes, crime data is from the FBI crime database, market data, and some of the property historical data and school data are from some other vendors.

I initially had only the comments and price predictions, then added the analysis around it. I need to add more discoverability for comments to pick up though.

Hung at 100%. Oh well.

its stuck on analysis 100%

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