{"id":9043,"date":"2009-06-29T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2009-06-29T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:20:08","slug":"building-the-perfect-bloodhound-three-years-into-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9043\/building-the-perfect-bloodhound-three-years-into-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the perfect Bloodhound, three years into the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathleen took most of my client contact off my hands Sunday so that I could have time free to play with a new API the FlexMLS folks are getting ready to release to their client MLS systems. I love FlexMLS, and I haven&#8217;t said nearly enough good things about it here, but let this stand as endorsement enough: If your MLS is on the cusp of its vendor contract, get FlexMLS. It&#8217;s plausible to me that other companies might have cool stuff, but other companies don&#8217;t listen to geeks like me. FBS is wicked smart to begin with, but they&#8217;re smart enough to know that nobody knows everything. By listening to the user base, they&#8217;re able to grow their product in ways that will matter a great deal to all of us going forward.<\/p>\n<p>So for Act one, I worked out how to build radius searches from any valid street address. By software, I mean. I want to be able to work from street addresses to build searches on the fly.<\/p>\n<p>Act two was just brute force API programming, building semi-custom searches into 11,000 or so unique pages. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6242\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve mentioned that Realtors have a publishing problem<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll bet you weren&#8217;t thinking in the thousands of pages.)<\/p>\n<p>Act three was a quick-search form. A lot of folks already have stuff like this from their IDX vendors. The difference is that I can build as many as I want, as elaborately as I want, using the most common or the most arcane fields in the MLS system. As an example, imagine a weblog post about central vacuum systems coupled with a quick search form featuring homes with central vac. Can your IDX system do that?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s innovation, y&#8217;all, and there is a point at which it is nothing more for me than <em>ars gratia artis<\/em> &#8212; art for art&#8217;s sake. I play with new ideas not to make money or to skin elephants, but because I love new things, and I love to wring every last drop of implication out of anything I lay my hands on. I can find the marketing &#8212; and, one hopes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9043\/building-the-perfect-bloodhound-three-years-into-the-job\/#more-9043\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathleen took most of my client contact off my hands Sunday so that I could have time free to play with a new API the FlexMLS folks are getting ready to release to their client MLS systems. I love FlexMLS, and I haven&#8217;t said nearly enough good things about it here, but let this stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,212,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-flourishing","9":"category-marketing","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3652,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3652\/new-flexmls-system-is-a-bold-stride-into-the-twenty-first-century-for-phoenix-area-multiple-listings-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":9043,"position":0},"title":"New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service Metropolitan Phoenix got a brand new MLS system this week. 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