December 2010
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2010: YC to Trulia
As 2010 comes to a close, Movity is moving onto some big things in 2011. We started as part of the YCombinator Winter Class, and will end as part of the Trulia.com team.
What were the highlights of 2010?
1. We brought on 3 awesome guys in Zain Memon, Andrew Kitchell, and Jonathan McCoy.
2. We did not get arrest for hanging noise recordings on the streets of San Francisco:...
Movity Maps: Makes Moving Easy
Moving is difficult. In 2009, thirty-seven million people moved, many because they accepted a new job.
New hires have their hands full: changing jobs, moving their belongings (and families), researching good neighborhoods, sorting through house listings… Aaaargh!
What if there was a magical world where movers could get advice about where to live from people they trust?
We thought this would be...
August 2010
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Filtering UGC Maps
I read a quote this morning about which summed up the power of crowd-sourced maps:
“While (the mapping of the Haiti Relief Efforts was) not without problem, this effort nevertheless represents a remarkable example of the power of crowdsourced online mapping and the potential for new avenues of interaction between physically distant places.“
The map below (created by the Louisiana...
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The need for UGC: San Francisco's Pet Map
Click here to view a rough San Francisco Pet Map
Most pet owners would agree with the statement “I want to live in a pet friendly area.”
However, how can pet owners gauge whether a neighborhood or location is pet friendly? We quickly put together a map of factors that may contribute to a pet’s happiness: access to parks/off-leash areas, day care facilities, etc. However, after mapping this...
Our office location
Because it’s a bit hard to find us, here is our office location:
Pier 38, Suite 5, at Townsend and Embarcadero. We’re downstairs in the back next to Lab Zero and CoTweet.
June 2010
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The visualization of noise
Noise complaints are the “No. 1 quality-of-life issue for New York residents”.
For the the past few months, we’ve interviewed home buyers, renters, and movers to identify the important factors when deciding on where to live. We knew of the obvious ones, safety, commute, price, and social. But in our initial brainstorm, we missed a pretty obvious factor… noise.
Interview...
February 2010
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Team Building
We rounded out the core of our team this month with Zain Memon.
Zain is one of the key contributors to the Django framework. He’s a talented entrepreneur, graduated high school at 16, speaks at the Django conferences, and previous was the Sr. Engineer at Voltage. We’re very happy he’s fighting the fight with us.
The rest of the team consists of:
Eric Wu
- Previously...
January 2010
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Starting of Movity.com
We started at YCombinator in January of 2010. Our vision for the the next three months is to validate our hypothesis of the problem:
- Buying or renting a home is a difficult process because of the lack of transparency around real estate.
Most real estate sites are powered by realtors or property managers. We aim to build a real estate search site that is driven by unbiased content and data,...