April 4, 2007
New features under My ShackPrices
We just rolled out a new set of features under My ShackPrices. Saved Shacks have a history now, Saved Searches are prettier and more functional, and you can now see more shacks on the map at a time.
Saved Shacks
When you save a shack, you can keep track of price changes, status changes (if they’ve accepted an offer or the house has sold), and if the shack is removed from market or if it sells. The complete history of each saved shack, starting the day you saved it, is under the saved shacks tab. You can sign up for daily or weekly emails of changes OR you can subscribe to an RSS feed. We’ve even set it up so that you can subscribe directly to your Google Homepage, My Yahoo or to a few other online RSS readers (I use Google Homepage for my top 15 feeds, Google Reader for the other 50 or so). It’s easy to save a shack – just click the little star next to it.
Saved Searches
You can now get instant updates on your saved searches from Google, My Yahoo, Netvibes, and others – just click the arrow next to RSS to subscribe. We’ve also cleaned up the look and feel of saved searches – take a look.
More Shacks on the Map
By popular request we’re doubling the default number of shacks on the map to 100 at a time and we added the option to increase or decrease the number. If you’re feeling brave (and you have a fast, modern computer), you can now display up to 600 shacks at a time on the map (Yowza!). You can change the number under account settings.
Also, did you notice the property count on the front page? As of this posting, there have been 358 new shacks listed for sale since midnight.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Beautiful stuff! Congrats on this release!
April 4th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Feeds for saved shacks, yay!
April 4th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
[...] Feeding the Shack… April 4, 2007 Galen of Shackprices (and a frequent RCG contributor!) just announced some new features on Shackprices, including feeds for your saved homes and/or saved searches… [...]
April 5th, 2007 at 7:45 am
[...] Galen releases new ShackPrices features. [...]
April 6th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Beautiful site!!!!!!! Nice Ajax!
But why would someone use this site instead of redfin? what’s the difference/advantage?
April 6th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Dag, good question! We aren’t really in the business of comparing ourselves to competitors, but I would say the speed and ease of browsing makes searching for homes on ShackPrices a unique home search experience.
Additionally, we have nearby information for every shack, where you can identify nearby schools, see local transit stops, nearby parks, and places. Also, we have “suggested shacks” so if you find a home you like, ShackPrices will show you similar properties that are for sale. Finally, we show you comparable homes that have sold recently (along with photos) so you can determine if the price is high or low.