realty_geek

Come on openAI - add @simonw to your privileged team before the plebs start a revolution!!!

Well put!!!

You work your arse off for free and the guy who made the disparaging comment didn't even bother to research to see if he had the details right.

Hat's off to you Carmine for all your work. Many people really do appreciate it.

Is there something similar to this which lets you visualize floor plans from listed homes when you are house hunting?

Would love to see non-technical audiences think like this.

For years I've been trying to get estate agents to support an open-source real estate website builder. The pitch is obvious: instead of each agent paying thousands for a bespoke site, pool resources, fund the features you all need, and everyone benefits.

Getting non-technical people to commit to something abstract before it exists is nearly impossible though. Hope a model like FablePool can change that.

For the website builder, the open-source product is already there: https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder. It just needs momentum.

Good question - I hope he gets to answer this.

Right now I actually think an MVP should be Maximum Viable Product. Partly because of AI but also because it shifts one's perspective to what Viable means.

As an aside, check out Jason's podcast (codewithjason.com) - its pretty good.

The latest one is with "Uncle Bob Martin" who has some interesting takes on coding with AI from .... can I say an oldie?

What is an example of a site with a good llm.txt?

Sorry, not sure what you mean by "alt net availability"

Great, thanks - I'll drop you a line.

Nice. I'm working on a project called homestocompare to help people house-hunting in the UK.

Would be nice to add this as an extra data point when comparing. Are you open to collaborating at all?

Crikey, the laptop actually arrived!!!

For me that is absolutely stunning. Dude I would give you a big hug if I could.

While the comments are suggesting this story is about a disaster it feels like a massive feel-good story. I don't think anyone here will understand but there are tears in my eyes right now!

I grew up in Ghana in the 80s and I can pretty much guarantee that a package that looked possibly slightly valuable would no way go more than 2 steps in the postal system then.

I know that was decades ago and Uganda might be completely different but this story is still messing with my head in a way I can't explain.

My saddest interaction recently was with a friend with a 1st class degree in computing and several years experience in software engineering in many prestigious companies.

I asked if he had tried out Claude code or anything similar. His answer: My company has scheduled a training course in that so I'll wait

:(

I wonder why there isn't much for real estate in this package.

Are they perhaps working on a totally different real estate project. I am in that space and very nervous about it getting wiped out by anthropic or openAI.

To be honest, I am not sure why they still haven't make a big play for that industry.

Does anyone know if it will affect emdash (an attempt by cloudflare to build an alternative to wordpress - launched on April first this year)?

To be fair, his Midas touch is a result of consistency and a lot of hard work.

It's like the gardener at one of the Oxford colleges said - it's really easy to create these perfect lawns, just turn up every day and trim and water it - for a couple hundred years.

I'm quite excited at the prospect of EmDash from cloudflare unseating Wordpress - especially for creating real estate websites.

I adapted my open source ruby on rails real estate website builder to work with EmDash and can already see a lot of potential.

It's not ready for production use yet but I'm really enjoying working on it:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/emdash_property_web_bu...

I buy this argument

I for one have found myself happily spending hundreds of dollars trying to build things I struggled to do in the past. And I am happy to keep things open source because I know the code is no longer the moat.

As an example, I started this almost 10 years ago:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

I the past 4 days I have added more functionality to it that I ever did in all the time before.

If anyone is consider using this for real estate I would love to connect.

Why is this not getting people on here super excited???

Which makes me all the more disappointed that Birmingham (close to me) doesn't have a better startup ecosystem. It is an ideal place to benefit from London (little over an hour away) without the crazy prices. Anyone here based around the midlands, say hello / "alright bab"....

ha ha - that is actually quite a good idea ;)

Oh dear, I bought claudeception.com on a whim - hope that doesn't upset anyone.

I had some ideas on what to host on there but haven't got round to it yet. If anyone here has a good use for it feel free to pitch me...

How come this is suddenly popping up everywhere?

And looking through past submissions for it on HN it seems people have tried posting about it many times but it never seems to get traction...

Sorry, yes it is Theo Brown:

https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg/videos

It was in one of his videos from last week.

I have found container-use to be super useful for this.

https://container-use.com/quickstart

BTW Simon, I was super happy when I heard on Theo's podcast that he will be encouraging you to monetise your work more. I'm super appreciative of your work and I'm pretty convinced that the more you profit from it, the better the universe will be!!!

Good luck with this.

AI will get you a lot of the way with this. Claude Code allowed me to bring my almost dead open source real estate website builder back to life - and it was much easier than I had expected.

Happy New Year from Nuneaton, UK!!

I wanted to try this out.

Then I saw this:

https://production2.outscal.com/v2/get-video-generation-api-...

Yaaaay, glad it's back up. Though it means I'll have to delay the propertywebbuilder relaunch .... :(

Nice - I learnt something from that!

I always wondered why rails didn't produce a competitor to WordPress. It just hasn't excelled in content management.

I have an open source real estate website builder called propertywebbuilder which I am working on reviving and even with the help of Claude code the content management part of it is proving to be the most painful.