Find the best value neighborhood for your ideals when house hunting.
Creating a search tool where you can enter in filters for what you're looking for, house price, parks, proximity of restaurants, school levels, proximity to public transportation and ideal zip codes. This will then show you the different places that match up with your search, allowing you to find the most ideal home. Once the filter is complete, sending them to a realtor.
Young families looking to invest in a home and finding the perfect match without the influence of a realtor.
- Twitter is the easiest probably as it doesn't need a lot of personal information (birthday, etc)
- Google may also be beneficial if they give a zip code for the area.
- Google Maps (GeoCoder gem)
- http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm
- http://www.cde.state.co.us/schoolview
- http://www.greatschools.org/api/docs/main.page
- http://www.denvergov.org/maps/map/neighborhoods
- SendGrid API to send summary of saved search results
- Mashery to pull them all together if need be
- http://www.denvergov.org/maps/map/parks
- Commute Times: 15 minutes of school with certain rating 15 minutes
NICE TO HAVE: - http://www.denvergov.org/maps/map/afterschool
- Twilio API to send alerts for new housing
- Alan Smith project for pre-K API.
Plan to Have - what features are expected to be in place by the end of the iteration Nice to Have - if things were a bit ahead of plan, how could the features go deeper / be better Uh oh - if things are really behind or going wrong, what cheats can be implemented or cuts made to get back on track
11/20: Checkin Plan: Basic Rails application, deployed to VPS, bootstrap, Ruby Parsing of CSV, Acquire API keys, structure for how app should look, have a way to save search results to a profile Nice: Ruby intake of API's, using Alan's data for pre-K Shit: Deployed to local
11/25: Checkin Plan: Alerts via SMS and Email for changes to listings, all APIs integrated Nice: Alerts on Dashboard, API Integratio: School API, SG, Geocoder, Twilio and Zillow, Commute time filter Shit:
12/1: Checkin Plan: Cleaning up search capabilities, map views, adding neighborhood outline to search results, adding afterschool projects to lists Nice: Cleaning up search capabilities, map views, adding neighborhood outline to search results Shit: Things are working
12/4: Evaluations Plan: Things are working Nice: Shit is covered and things look nice Shit: Bare minimum filter and search are working