Development Blog
- Requests for improvement field on seller listing input screen
- bookmark this page" (javascript?) code on each listing to allow for one-click bookmark
- CTRL-D recommendation for bookmarking on each listing
- "Add to my favorite listings" link on each listing
- RSS for each user's listings
- RSS for each user's favorites
- RSS for open houses
- iCAL for open houses
- ability to choose FRIENDS whose favorites & listings show up on my "homepage"
- Pre-calculated mortgage rates underneath price of house (ex. "You could be paying $x/mo")
- New fields:
- types should include commercial lot, commercial, residential lot, residential
- estimated annual property tax cost (should this add into the pre-calc mortgage rate?)
- style (ranch, two-story, split-level, duplex, etc.)
- sizes and notes fields for various rooms
- Living Room
- Dining Room
- Family Room
- Recreation/Game Room
- Master Bedroom
- Bedroom 1
- Bedroom 2
- Bedroom 3
- Bedroom 4
- Bedroom 5
- Kitchen
- Garage
- Sun Room
- Office
- Foyer
- Pool Room
- Deck
- type and notes for HVAC
- type and notes for roof
- type and notes for exterior siding
- approximate age (drop-down)
- < 5yrs
- 5yrs - 10yrs
- 10yrs - 20yrs
- 20yrs - 30yrs
- 30yrs - 40yrs
- 40yrs - 50yrs
- 50yrs - 60yrs
- 60yrs - 70yrs
- 70yrs - 80yrs
- 80yrs - 90yrs
- 90yrs - 100yrs
- > 100yrs
- Municipaliry (auto-fill but changeable)
- Public School District (auto-fill but changeable)
- Allow sellers to mark property as "accepted offer" - which should email as a status change to anyone with this as a "favorite"
- Allow sellers to mark property as "sold" - which should email as a status change to anyone with this as a "favorite"
- Email sign-up for open house listings
- Email sign-up for status (offer, sold), updates (changes made to content of listing), or price change on favorites
- "Offer to purchase" PDF wizard for potential buyers
- Easier admin ability to swap/delete photos - to help users struggling with updates
- E-mail and screen notification that changes need top be approved and listing won't update immediately
- Watermarks for images
- Email to seller should go into approval waiting area, questions should be one-click add to listing public question area
- Listing application on facebook
- "Sell A Home" link should go to add a listing page once I am logged in.
- Allow sellers and buyers to upload picture or select avatar of themselves
- personal information should include:
- mobile number
- aim (and other messengers)
- fax number
- website
- work number
- work email (both should work for login)
- Buyer notifications:
- Listing content changed
- Listing price changed
- Listing status changed
- New friend
- Seller notifications
- listing viewed
- Listing viewed milestones (100 hits, 1000 hits, etc.)
- Close-up photo viewed
- PDF brochure generated
- Email to friend clicked
- Email a friend on each page
- Seller dashboard
- lifetime listings
- current listings
- sold listings
- dropped listings
- hits per listing
- click-through rate (thumbnail -> listing)
- click-through rate (PDF brochure)
- click-through rate (photo click-through, more photos)
- Unify look/stylesheets of all pages
- Allow embed wizard for Youtube walk-throughs
- Allow sorting of listings by price, style, other criteria (dropdown?)
- Create widget for Mac OS X dashboard
- Create widget for embedding in MySpace, blogs, CMS, etc.
- Firefox extension
