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!
This is a seriously sketchy UX pattern, I advise avoiding this website.
* High Crime Rates
* High Total Crime Rate
* High Property Crime Rate
Maybe this can be simplified.
I like the idea of Zillow comments and guessing sale price though. It should be possible to comment on any web page.
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), ...
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.
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.
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.
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".