A look behind the scenes at Estately, a Seattle area real estate search startup

Category Archives: Interface

Address and Listing number search

ShareWhenever Doug and I show people ShackPrices, they sit down and begin typing their address into the search box, causing us to apologetically explain that, while ShackPrices is powerful, it can only send you to neighborhoods, cities, and zip codes (did you know that you can type a neighborhood name in the search box?).
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What’s nearby? Schools with scores!

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We just rolled out another feature update today: we now show math and reading scores for all schools (shown on the nearby page for each house) along with links to super-detailed school information. Grade levels and student population are thrown in (small school proponents rejoice!). Additionally, we tell you each school’s district, so you’ll won’t [...]

What have we been up to?

ShareI’d like to thank everyone who has given us such excellent feedback over the nearly two weeks since we launched. We thought you’d be pretty busy with Christmas and whatnot, so we saved the good post-launch news until life slowed down a little.
So what’s new? In the time since we launched, we’ve been covered all [...]

Site Update

ShareAs you may have noticed the site was updated this weekend. There were a host of small improvements, so I’ll only mention the big ones. First is a search by address feature, that simplifies the task of searching for a specific house, you can find it under the search tab. Second we [...]

Safari looks good

ShareIf you had a Mac and were desperately looking for home sale data, ShackPrices was usable, but the formatting was not pretty. Now, just like your Mac, it’s very pretty. Thanks for catching the problem, Stuart. Enjoy.