Hacker News: realty_geek

New comment by realty_geek in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

realty_geek — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:36:27 +0000

To be fair, his Midas touch is a result of consistency and a lot of hard work.

It's like the gardener at one of the Oxford colleges said - it's really easy to create these perfect lawns, just turn up every day and trim and water it - for a couple hundred years.

New comment by realty_geek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

realty_geek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:52:32 +0000

I'm quite excited at the prospect of EmDash from cloudflare unseating Wordpress - especially for creating real estate websites.

I adapted my open source ruby on rails real estate website builder to work with EmDash and can already see a lot of potential.

It's not ready for production use yet but I'm really enjoying working on it:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/emdash_property_web_bu...

New comment by realty_geek in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

realty_geek — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:21:26 +0000

I buy this argument

I for one have found myself happily spending hundreds of dollars trying to build things I struggled to do in the past. And I am happy to keep things open source because I know the code is no longer the moat.

As an example, I started this almost 10 years ago:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

I the past 4 days I have added more functionality to it that I ever did in all the time before.

New comment by realty_geek in "Build Gaussian Splat Experiences with SuperSplat Studio"

realty_geek — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:10:17 +0000

If anyone is consider using this for real estate I would love to connect.

New comment by realty_geek in "Open-source real-time interactive world model (LingBot-World)"

realty_geek — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:47:54 +0000

Why is this not getting people on here super excited???

New comment by realty_geek in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

realty_geek — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:54:31 +0000

Which makes me all the more disappointed that Birmingham (close to me) doesn't have a better startup ecosystem. It is an ideal place to benefit from London (little over an hour away) without the crazy prices. Anyone here based around the midlands, say hello / "alright bab"....

New comment by realty_geek in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

realty_geek — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:40:33 +0000

ha ha - that is actually quite a good idea ;)

New comment by realty_geek in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

realty_geek — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:49:25 +0000

Oh dear, I bought claudeception.com on a whim - hope that doesn't upset anyone.

I had some ideas on what to host on there but haven't got round to it yet. If anyone here has a good use for it feel free to pitch me...

New comment by realty_geek in "What Is Clawdbot? (and Why People Are Losing Their Minds over It)"

realty_geek — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:17:27 +0000

How come this is suddenly popping up everywhere?

And looking through past submissions for it on HN it seems people have tried posting about it many times but it never seems to get traction...

New comment by realty_geek in "Code and Let Live"

realty_geek — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:53:23 +0000

Sorry, yes it is Theo Brown:

https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg/videos

It was in one of his videos from last week.

New comment by realty_geek in "Code and Let Live"

realty_geek — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:59:07 +0000

I have found container-use to be super useful for this.

https://container-use.com/quickstart

BTW Simon, I was super happy when I heard on Theo's podcast that he will be encouraging you to monetise your work more. I'm super appreciative of your work and I'm pretty convinced that the more you profit from it, the better the universe will be!!!

New comment by realty_geek in "Looking for help with an open source project on GitHub"

realty_geek — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:32:48 +0000

Good luck with this.

AI will get you a lot of the way with this. Claude Code allowed me to bring my almost dead open source real estate website builder back to life - and it was much easier than I had expected.

New comment by realty_geek in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

realty_geek — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:12:14 +0000

Happy New Year from Nuneaton, UK!!

New comment by realty_geek in "Show HN: I built a tool that creates videos out of React code"

realty_geek — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:10:26 +0000

I wanted to try this out.

Then I saw this:

https://production2.outscal.com/v2/get-video-generation-api-...

New comment by realty_geek in "Hacker News Has Degraded Service"

realty_geek — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:44:06 +0000

Yaaaay, glad it's back up. Though it means I'll have to delay the propertywebbuilder relaunch .... :(

New comment by realty_geek in "Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails"

realty_geek — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:39:59 +0000

Nice - I learnt something from that!

I always wondered why rails didn't produce a competitor to WordPress. It just hasn't excelled in content management.

I have an open source real estate website builder called propertywebbuilder which I am working on reviving and even with the help of Claude code the content management part of it is proving to be the most painful.

New comment by realty_geek in "Show HN: I built a climbing tracker for data-obsessed climbers (Expo/RN)"

realty_geek — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:28:26 +0000

Looks good!

It's so hard to get traction on HN though - I only found this by chance because I was coincidentally searching HN for stories about the recent react hack!!

It doesn't even show up here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

New comment by realty_geek in "Gemini 3"

realty_geek — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:05:31 +0000

Wow, that is awesome.

New comment by realty_geek in "Gemini 3"

realty_geek — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:26:25 +0000

I would like to try controlling my browser with this model. Any ideas how to do this. Ideally I would like something like openAI's atlas or perplexity's comet but powered by gemini 3.

New comment by realty_geek in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

realty_geek — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:09:40 +0000

Thanks, that is helpful.

Chatgpt also explained the concept of ideophones which was helpful:

https://chatgpt.com/share/69187b3e-7948-8001-9fea-2b4412d5a7...