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Homestead List
An app that lets people search for their dream off-grid home
@thysmakes
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Roast my site to help people find the best places for their off-grid homestead!

Hi WIP👋

I made https://www.homesteadlist.com/ for people that want to start their own off-grid homestead. 
I'm scratching my own itch here. I want to buy land somewhere on the world to start my own homestead but I have no clue where. After some research I figured more people have this issue so I thought lets make a website for that. 

- Filters for the off-grid community like "good farmland"
- Leaderboard so people can see the communities favorites
- Option to add your own location

Monetisation?
- Ads
- Free but forward traffic to a new website where I actually list properties in a Homestead Location

Goals? Help people, build e-mail lists, create funnel for other websites.

Thanks in advance! - Thys

Thijs
@thysmakes

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Charlie Revett
@revcd

Nice idea! Do you watch @wildhomestead? Some feedback:

  • Update your page title, it has "made with softr.io" in it
  • Can you group and/or order the filters, they are hard to parse currently
  • IMO I would remove the spacing between paragraphs in the header
  • And also format the text to make it more readable on the background
  • Replace "The Shire" with a good example
  • Not sure if the voting mechanism is adding much value if guests can vote?
  • I can't click on a location, do they have dedicated pages?
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Thijs
@thysmakes

Yes I do! Crazy guy always swimming in that snow covered river😂 If you like that, check out Project Kamp, it's one of the reasons I started this website.

  • Made with softr is limited to the tier i'm currently using
  • I'll look for a way to group the filters. That's a good one.
  • The spacing in the paragraphs, you specifically mean the space between the single sentences?
  • I got a lot of comments about the Shire. I thought it was a nice gimmick. But seems people find it confusing. I'll remove it.
  • I'll look in to the voting mechanism. I don't think I can change it in Softr.
  • It's a good thing you clicked on a location! I'm actually testing it out to see if people actually click there and "expect" details on the Homestead Location. So this is great feedback. I want to keep the MVP small tho, so adding a detail page is something that i'll do when the product is validated.

Thank you so much for taking the time to roast my site!

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Murph
@murph

This is a fun idea! Is there a reason why you're building this as a lead gen for a separate website with listings? Why not build it all under one brand/site?

Curious how you're going to populate listings too. Have you seen land.com? I think it's US-only, but maybe there is an API you could hit.

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Thijs
@thysmakes

Thank you! Not really a good enough reason. I figured a leaderboard website and the actual property listing website would make sense to keep them split up. I also want to code the second website as this one is no-code, which seems to be quite limiting. But a lot of people say that I need to keep it as one site, so maybe I will!

The listings will be scraped primarily. And I'm doing cold outreach to real estate agencies to let them post properties. But I think it's an easier sell if I have some traffic on the website. I know land.com! They don't have an API I think. I looked for good API's but can't really find them or they are really expensive.

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Murph
@murph

Yeah my gut reaction is that you'll dilute your seo/ efforts having to build awareness and drive traffic to different brands. With some DNS and server reverse proxy finagling, you could maintain your no-code site and coded listings site on the same domain.

I dig it. The more scattered the data is, the harder it will be... but as im sure you're aware that's also a huge signal that there's value in aggregating it!

propwire.com is also free. i don't think they have an api, but you might be able to scrape vacant lot listings from them

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Thijs
@thysmakes

Hm good one about the SEO, I never thought of it like that. Nice that you think it's a valuable concept! I'm in the validation phase so this comment makes my day. Thanks so much for recommending propwire, I didn't know it! I'll definitely try that out. Did you use them yourself?

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Murph
@murph

I just found out about it a couple weeks ago from a random investment newsletter i subscribe to. Haha honestly mostly just using it to snoop on homes in my area since you can see historical data on ownership, sales, and loans for a given property.

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