Another project I started with a good friend from Google is Webtastic AI [2] it's a lead gen …

How do the properties get onto homestra? Do landlords find your site and enter the data + pay you? Or is the model different?

Can you add a map to Homestra? That’s the one piece of functionality that most overseas real estate sites are missing.

A filter for elevators would be super-helpful. I tried [1] but it seems broken. after applying a filter i get a 404 (only fitler was bedroom size): https://homestra.com/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedrooms=2 On the note of filtering, why do you not have upper bounds on bedrooms/bathrooms? it seems like filtering for a 2 bedroom isn't possible because "2+" would give me a ton i am not interested in

Are you planning to deal with all the complexities that each market brings? For example, compare with one of the standard German property search websites: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/ and here are some things that I, personally, would or have used when searching for property that I don't immediately see on your site: For apartments: * Searching by floor (or below or above floor) * Searching by presence/absence of elevator For all property types: * Searching by rented / unrented status (evicting tenants for your own use is hard ) * Searching by build phase, if you're interested in new-build properties * Searching by build year (some people prefer Altbaus, some consider them the work of the devil) * Searching by heating type (underfloor vs radiator) * Searching by rooms , not bedrooms . In Germany, a 1-room flat is a Studio Apartment and doesn't have a bedroom. * Display of and search…

Both projects look like they are run by a team of 10+ people! Congratz on making them by yourself, that's very inspiring!

> I am building a Zillow for Europe [1] As a European, I (at least) don't understand what this means - and therefore don't understand your offering, your USP? What does/will Homestra offer, and how will it be different from e.g. Immobilienscout?

That's super interesting! I actually started developing 'Zillow for Brazil' a couple of years ago for the same reason (Brazil realstate websites are a total mess), but dropped the project due to lack of knowledge (I was just starting my journey in computer science) and also because I thought that tackling such a project would require a gargantuan amount of work (external integrations, indexing addresses, and so on). Besides, I had doubts whether I would be able to make a net profit from the website considering that GoogleMaps API is quite expensive for Brazil standards. Congrats!

I wish you success and soon. We're house hunting from the US for a house in France. We visit the target city quite frequently but you really have to be registered with every agent and then hope that they contact you if the right property comes up. The last two times we bought a property in the US we found them via Zillow.