The Problem
Our client, Open House Junky, needed a new website to help real estate agents list properties and open house events. They also required a customer-facing side of the website that connected property buyers to available houses.
Our Solution
For Open House Junky, we built a fully responsive custom website that provides homebuyers with everything they need to find their dream property all in one place. The website features both client and consumer-facing portals, bringing real estate agents and homebuyers together under one roof and conveniently connecting them with open houses and viewing information.
What We Did
Map Integration
Knowing where properties are is just as important as knowing their availability. As a result, we integrated an intelligent maps API that allows estate agents to denote property addresses accurately. The easy-to-understand map feature also ensures that homebuyers can access a comprehensive and up-to-date listing of open houses in their area and discover links to detailed listings.
Live Route Planning
In addition to integrating the platform with maps, we also included a live route planning feature to help users find their properties and events in an organized manner. To do this, we created an algorithm that integrated with our maps features, enabling the platform to generate logical routes based on event locations and times. This way, users can receive an optimal route for all the open houses they’d like to attend on any given day.
Search Save
Sometimes it can be difficult to settle on a property, so we implemented a search save feature that allows users to document their previous location searches. Subsequently, when they return to the site, they can easily pick up where they left off and avoid potentially missing out on finding their dream property. Users also have the option of “liking” their favorite properties, RSVPing to open houses and receiving notifications for upcoming events.
Admin Portal
On the agent side, we built a portal that lets realtors manage all of their listings, schedule open houses throughout the year and see how many people have viewed a listing or RSVPed to an open house. We also made an e-commerce portal with Stripe that enables agents to assign credits that can be used to create open house events and listings.
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Aviation Marketplace Platform
The team was very responsive and easy to work with. They are professional, talented, and experienced team. They were able to meet all our requirements.
Idea Maker is distinguished for their personalized collaboration and white glove services. The team is dependable and reliable, sticking to the project's plan, offering feedback, and pushing back on the right things.
The way they understand the requirements we present to them is fairly solid. Both in terms of bringing their own interpretation in nailing the requirements and their design sense. By the time we launched, I had gotten significantly more value from our collaboration than what we had discussed in the original specs.
This is a boutique development firm where the Founder is directly involved with the project and the primary contact. This is unlike many development firms where you are simply handed off to developers that are not stakeholders. This is an important distinction that results in much better project accountability.
I have never had a site like this built before. I felt that Idea Maker and Tom had built numerous sites like this, and they were pros.
Idea Maker's portfolio is what drew us in. Their design style was in alignment with what we were after. We had initial consultations with 3 companies that we had narrowed it down to. Once we had our initial meeting with Tom at Idea Maker we knew we had the right choice to make. Their communication style works well for us.
Their customer service is excellent — they’re incredibly accessible and available, which I appreciate. Furthermore, they have enough experience and bandwidth to fulfill all my needs. They’re one of the best vendors I’ve worked with.
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