patrick.net

Patrick, so far the internet has FAILED to disintermediate realtors. total failure.

Your website idea likely will never catch on because you have no way to even verify these bids are real. Once trolls take over, its over.

Are people going to upload a NAR contract to you to verify ? nope. You cannot verify these bids are real. This is a deal breaker isnt it?

In order to end the practice of gate keeping agents, you would have to pass laws to force all bids to be entered somewhere public, without that, waste of time and rotsa ruck fighting the NAR - you have a better chance of stopping all wars. ha.

Your problem is not a technology problem but a legal one.

The best recent example of technology in real estate venture was forclosure/property radar. Sean O took the non accesible public records and put them on a website. It was like 2008 or so, very very late to the game, but he changed it forever. Now all the flipers u hate can just look it all up. Sean even had individual investors offer him HUGE MONEY to 'not' list thier little counties on the net, they wanted to horde the deals and be the only guy who could or would suffer through papers at at the courthouse. Sean ended that era.

That guy Sean Otoole is smart because he offered a site FOR AGENTS/FLIPPERS and not against them. Join the beast Patrick, maybe you can use your site so the loser buyers agents can use it to fuck with the crooked listing agent, it cannot be used by public because they are idiots. You could get lawyers to advertise on it to sue the listing agent when they flushed a valid offer (good luck proving it, but it can be done)
Example of common buyer 'duh i called and left a voicemail with my offer and they never called me back, im posting on patrick' youbidwhat site'. THATS NOT AN OFFER.

PockyClipsNow says

Your website idea likely will never catch on because you have no way to even verify these bids are real.

They don't have to be verified, because merely tipping off the seller that there is/was a bid that he did not know about is the goal.

The seller can chat with the buyer on the site, or maybe by private chat or email and nail down the details to catch the agent. That is all that is necessary.

Sure, people can lie and post troll bids that never happened, but if they don't reply to the seller with details, the seller will just ignore them.

PockyClipsNow says

You could get lawyers to advertise on it to sue the listing agent when they flushed a valid offer

I tried to make money by advertising real estate lawyers at one point, but was informed that that is illegal for some obscure reason.

The missing element of your site is how to monetize. Ad revenue not likely.
I suppose if you have it working and its slick and some people like it you could sell the site/idea to trulia or some such company - that should be your goal.

Anyway good luck.

PockyClipsNow says

sell the site/idea to trulia

Lol, that's pretty funny. I used to work at Trulia.

Arabic Version:

"Bidjihad.com"
"SecretBidsHaram".com

OK, very first version, fragile, lacks most functionality, but is live now:

http://whatdidyoubid.com:8080/

It looks similar to patrick.net, but that's deceptive, since it's completely re-written in node instead of php.

There are a million things to do yet:
* get an ssl cert and drop the :8080 from the url
* get email working for the whatdidyoubid.com domain
* get registration and lost-password functionality working
* get search working
* ...

But at least I got something out there. Check out https://github.com/killelea/whatdidyoubid.com if you want to see how it works.

Feel free to add new addresses and comments on those addresses. There is no validation yet that addresses are real, but I'll get to that. Not much spam control yet either, but will get to that too when needed.

And now I have the ssl certificate:

https://whatdidyoubid.com/

added first comment about a real property which just sold:

https://whatdidyoubid.com/address/4/383-60th-street-piedmont-ca-94618

Here is a site that claims to actually publish all the offers on a house, instead of hiding them like most realtor scum do:

https://www.faira.com/listing-search

"Here is a site that claims to actually publish all the offers on a house, instead of hiding them like most realtor scum do"
When you are in a multiple offer situation, bidders are not typically aware of the details of the other bids. In order to disclose details of a bid to other bidders, the sellers agent (or buyers agent) must have both the buyers and sellers permission to share that information with another party. Offers are considered confidential. That is real estate law, at least in my state and I assume in other states as well.
On a side note, given your obvious acrimony for real estate agents, I find it interesting that you worked at Trulia.