totally cool home searching app by one of our own pigg forum members

[Rich Toscano]

Hey all — You may have noticed that for a couple months I’ve been running ads for an app called “fypio.” It’s been in beta for a while but now has gone live at the app store, so at this point I wanted to note a cool fact: the main person behind it is actually a longtime/frequent Piggington forum poster!

As it turns out, the app is quite cool… it’s basically home search on steroids. It has all the usual stuff you can search on, but tons of other stuff too (proximity to things, neighborhood characteristics, crime stats, school stats, demographics, house characteristics, and a bunch of other stuff. It also let’s you collect, compare, and share stuff in a pretty slick manner.

For the record, I get no benefit out of writing this little blurb. I just thought the pigg forum members might be interested that “one of their own” is behind this thing (not to mention it’s just a very cool app for those interested in real estate).

Check it out if you like… the website is: http://fyp.io

PS – I purposely left out this person’s forum identity, as I’m not sure if he’d want it made public.

[UCGal]

Pretty cool.
Is it only on ios? Or is there an android version?

[njtosd]

I am not a big fan of Facebook – can anyone explain why it’s set up for a Facebook login?

[sdduuuude]

Fypio has a Typio.

The smart & fun way to your perfect home

[Anonymous]

Rich, thanks for sharing this link for the app. Its been a while since I last posted 🙂

This is a pretty neat app! I was surprised at how well it was able to match me up based on lifestyle choices.
Its an interesting take on buying or at least searching by lifestyle vs metrics and dry xls data points.
It seems they do the work for you, which for the average buyer or out of area buyer is a god send.
I am sure more pioneering RE agents will see this as a tool for their clients for sure.
While I don’t see this necessarily for the more hardcore investor types as their daily driver, it would be helpful for the rest of us.
Seems like it has tons of potential.

[caznable55]

I’ve been using it for while now being one of the beta testers and I gotta say, it’s a much, much better approach than the other apps like Zillow and Trulia which don’t have much social engagement or input. The ability to collect and compare individual living spaces and then quickly share what you’ve curated with the Missus has been a real eye opener. Prior, it was a mess trying to sit down and share notes on what we each personally scoured through a million different sites, etc. Like the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words.

[fypio]

Android is on our radar – those that are signed up for the beta get the latest updates on current and future versions of the app. If you’d like to be part of the community e-mail us at [email protected]

A link to subscribe to updates will go up on the site shortly but until then we can manually add your e-mail to the list! 🙂

Thanks for your comment

[fypio]

Google and LinkedIn logins coming in a few weeks.

How do you feel about using one of those 2 other login options to log in?

Thanks for your comment

[fypio]

Re: typo

You’re probably referring to the lack of “find” in the tag line. We had a lot of internal debate about leaving it out as we aspire to be a lot more than just a real estate search app.

Have you tried the app out? We’d love to get your feedback on it.

(your comment made us chuckle – thanks!)

[outtamojo]

[quote=fypio]Google and LinkedIn logins coming in a few weeks.

How do you feel about using one of those 2 other login options to log in?

Thanks for your comment[/quote]

What no Piggington log in ?

[njtosd]

Hmm. Is there a reason that I can’t just create a user name and password like I do for other apps?

FWIW – Since you seem open to suggestions, I will offer these as well. In my business I deal with a lot of trademarks, and I think about them a lot. In looking at yours, a few things come to mind. I like the name fypio. On the other hand, I can’t tell if it’s an optical illusion, but the O seems flat is some places. Also, people generally prefer graphics that are forward leaning, so if you are going to use the heart I might tilt it to the right rather than the left. Finally, doesn’t Redfin allow users to put a heart icon next to the properties that they like? Might look copy cat-ish.

[Doofrat]

Should add a range for say bedrooms and bathrooms.
When I search for houses, but I also set the configuration for pool, I’m getting condos and townhouses. When I go back and set houses, it gives me houses with no pool. Great App though!

[sdduuuude]

[quote=fypio]Re: typo

You’re probably referring to the lack of “find” in the tag line. We had a lot of internal debate about leaving it out as we aspire to be a lot more than just a real estate search app.

Have you tried the app out? We’d love to get your feedback on it.

(your comment made us chuckle – thanks!)[/quote]

Well, I don’t have a smartphone and I don’t really want one so I won’t be testing an app. Secondly, I’m suddenly out of the housing market and tired of looking. Yay.

Also, I understand why you thought of leaving out the “find” but the result is awkward. It doesn’t work for me as a catch-phrase. It makes no sense. I don’t think it is because I’m old. I think a young person would say “huh” as well.

Maybe you should drop a “?” in there. Or roll through a bunch of words – like “find” “love” “buy” “obsess over” “locate” “surf” “view” “visit” “move into” to get the impression that you can do more than just find.

“The smart and fun way to your own house”
just … I don’t get it.

[sdduuuude]

[quote=fypio]Re: typo

You’re probably referring to the lack of “find” in the tag line. We had a lot of internal debate about leaving it out as we aspire to be a lot more than just a real estate search app.

Have you tried the app out? We’d love to get your feedback on it.

(your comment made us chuckle – thanks!)[/quote]

If I could use it with Explorer or Chrome on my HD monitors at my desk, I’d give it a ride. I could offer many suggestions I have given to redfin that they basically ignore but for all I know, you already have them in.

[sdduuuude]

[quote=caznable55]I’ve been using it for while now being one of the beta testers and I gotta say, it’s a much, much better approach than the other apps like Zillow and Trulia which don’t have much social engagement or input. The ability to collect and compare individual living spaces and then quickly share what you’ve curated with the Missus has been a real eye opener. Prior, it was a mess trying to sit down and share notes on what we each personally scoured through a million different sites, etc. Like the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words.[/quote]

Or – a word is worth a millipicture …

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