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Products that do what Text-a-Pro, book home projects at flat-rate prices over SMS & Messenger does
Hey HN, we are long time members of this community, and we’d love to share a new product we’re launching today called Text-a-Pro. The product is entirely messaging based, and allows homeowners to book trusted pros at flat-rate prices to get their home improvement projects done. We’re also the first to provide an end-to-end transaction on Facebook Messenger (and also by texting 776-776). We’ve built a lot of tech behind the scenes for this – including generating dynamic images at run-time for things like personalized estimates and pro recommendations. Our pricing engine is built on a…
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Hi HN! At Open Listings, we build technology to make buying a house simpler and more affordable. Ultimately, we want to make buying a house as simple as clicking a button. Our core technology is really our transaction process. While we also provide some shopping tools for house hunters, we recognize that people don’t just use 1 site when they’re searching for a home. In the spirit of supporting our clients even if they’er shopping on other sites, we made a “buy button” that we hope will work anywhere. When you click, it looks for address and MLS# on your current page and fills them in on our…
2015 · chrome.google.com
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Hey HN community! Like many of you, I spend most of my day in text conversations. One day I found myself switching between group chats and various AI apps, and thought, why can't AI just live where we already chat? So I built TextAI. It's an AI that works right in your SMS app. No new app to download, no platform to learn. Just text +15626840069 to start chatting or add it to any group chat! The tech and stack details: - Native SMS/MMS integration with context management across conversations - Handles multiple participants, learns group preferences, and scales for concurrent chats -…
2025 · usetext.ai
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AI customer service that turns support into sales
Jun 2026 · text.com
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Hi there, So a buddy a couple of days ago came up with the idea for a new SaaS product regarding gpt and image generation. We did a quick MVP that barely works, it breaks almost 50% of the time but we still wanted to validate the idea before going all in. We have almost 1k followers on Twitter together. Did a quick post describing the idea with a stripe link in the comments with a 5$ value, no landing page, and no shipped product. In exchange, the buyers become beta users. Around 30 mins later we got our first sale next 30 mins another 5$ and so on. Do we consider the idea validated? The…
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Hi HN! A few years ago, I had a tough time buying a home in a competitive market where listings were scarce. I kept wondering—why isn’t there a simple way to contact a homeowner directly to ask if they’re interested in selling? So a friend and I built Hown, an app that lets buyers message any homeowner, creating a way to buy and sell houses outside the real estate market (sorry, US only for now). The app is for: -Homeowners who might be open to selling but aren’t ready to list. -Buyers who want to express interest in homes before they hit the market. -House enthusiasts who just enjoy…
2025 · hown.app
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Hi HN, I’m one of the founders of Anyone.com, a new platform we’ve quietly been building to fix the chaos of real estate transactions. Call us the Uber of real estate really. Most platforms just list properties. We built the part no one built: the actual transaction workflow. On Anyone, buyers, sellers, and agents collaborate in one shared environment: from search → to agent matching → viewings → offers → deal → closing. We previously built Dan.com to modernize domain ownership transfers (acquired by GoDaddy), reducing transfer times from days to minutes. Real estate is even more broken and…
2025 · inman.com
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I've been working the last months on a Twitter app for Windows Phone called Ocell. It all started as a test project to explore development in that platform, but I started to give it more time and released it to the Marketplace. It's my first serious project and I would like to know what does HN think about it. It's also opensourced, so you can also take a look at the code on GitHub (https://github.com/gjulianm/Ocell). It would be really great to have your feedback on this :) Thanks a lot! Windows Phone Store link: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=2ca75e0f-69a4-42e9-b788-dedc31afb82a
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