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FindMyNewHome

Project Planning

  • 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, filtering data
  • Shit: Deployed to local TODO:
  • Use Mechanize to iterate over listings and scraping
  • Implement map view with listings latitute and longitude.
  • sleep random (0-5 seconds) use find_or_create_by for new records
  • Need to implement cron job to do this every day

TODO's over weekend:

  • Get a map via geocoder
  • querying and searching house listings
  • create filter for searching house listings
  • save search results to user profile
  • Implent a method to get user email and phone number for notifications after authentication
  • add great schools data to be mapped with house data
  • add park data to be mapped with house data
  • add Zillow demographic/geographic sector to data

11/25: Checkin

  • Plan: Alerts via SMS and Email for changes to listings, all APIs integrated
  • Nice: Alerts on Dashboard, API Integration: 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
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