I plan to use simplyrets with the help of my client who is supposed to provide the brokerage credentials (rets credentials).
In the mean time I used a web scraper to generate my own data in csv format and then uploaded it into the rails app: github.com/ashToronto/realty-scrape.
If you find the scraper useful drop me a star, it gets images too.
I also created a few additional features i.e value my home, mortgage affordability calculator, etc.
The way my system works: Developer (me) creates catelogue of home data for search and uploads it periodically, admin creates add listings (can be imported via csv), when the user searches admins add listings are featured before catelogue. Everything results in lead generation (long story short).
I went through your open source and I liked the motivation. Wordpress seems to be dominant in real estate, however I found working with rails for this project an absolute blast, great dev experience. I think my only major issues were in the UI of the app because I tried using ajax for search queries but it causes unexpected behavior when we navigate back to the search, it did improve speed by at least 20%. I also dropped turbolinks with great reluctance. I think speed is something I'd love some advise on especially because my system at the moment uses the local db for querying.
I really wanted to focus on UI as well. I was thinking of adding a blog but I'm not too sure if it's worth it for real estate. Would love an opinion.
Once I make my repo public I'll be sure to drop a link in here.
Hey Ed,
I plan to use simplyrets with the help of my client who is supposed to provide the brokerage credentials (rets credentials).
In the mean time I used a web scraper to generate my own data in csv format and then uploaded it into the rails app: github.com/ashToronto/realty-scrape.
If you find the scraper useful drop me a star, it gets images too.
I also created a few additional features i.e value my home, mortgage affordability calculator, etc.
The way my system works: Developer (me) creates catelogue of home data for search and uploads it periodically, admin creates add listings (can be imported via csv), when the user searches admins add listings are featured before catelogue. Everything results in lead generation (long story short).
I went through your open source and I liked the motivation. Wordpress seems to be dominant in real estate, however I found working with rails for this project an absolute blast, great dev experience. I think my only major issues were in the UI of the app because I tried using ajax for search queries but it causes unexpected behavior when we navigate back to the search, it did improve speed by at least 20%. I also dropped turbolinks with great reluctance. I think speed is something I'd love some advise on especially because my system at the moment uses the local db for querying.
I really wanted to focus on UI as well. I was thinking of adding a blog but I'm not too sure if it's worth it for real estate. Would love an opinion.
Once I make my repo public I'll be sure to drop a link in here.
Hi Ash,
Sorry I've only just now seen your reply - I assumed I'd get a notification when you replied but I never did.
The realty scraper repo you link to is no longer available. Will you put it back sometime?
I also created a real estate scraper a while back:
github.com/RealEstateWebTools/prop...
I'll give you a shout on linkedin, there might be ways we could collaborate.