We can pretty much see the launch date for the site. Over the past couple weeks we’ve added a lot of user features like saving places, friends, and contacting landlords. We’ve dressed up the property pages, and got started on the tour and learn sections of the site.

Over the next week or so, we’ll be concentrating on developing a dashboard for users, finishing up the Browse Property page and search features, cleaning up some of the little details on the site, and getting started on the landlord Property Manager and Reporting tools. That should be the last leg of the race, so you can anticipate a beta release of the site sometime around the middle to end of August.

Best,
Mike

Posted on August 9th, 2007 to catagory: Updates
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Right now, we’re adding some of the last major features that we wanted to include with the site. We’re working on getting users’ profile pages up and setting up a property manager for landlords to edit the properties that they’ve listed. That will probably be the most time consuming part of the process.

We’ve scheduled to get the site up and running for a beta release in 2 weeks, so sometime in the beginning of August. From there we’ll be contacting landlords in the Bethlehem area to start adding their properties and getting them excited and interested in the (free) service we’re offering.

From there, once we hopefully get a lot of listings for Lehigh University, we’ll start advertising it to students there. Lehigh will be the only school we’re going after right away, so if it works there, we’ll try to get it to more schools. We’re open to suggestions about getting landlords to use the site.

Throughout the next few weeks you can expect more notes about our development process.

Best,
Mike

Posted on July 21st, 2007 to catagory: Updates
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