Homer - community-based, real-time housing marketplace
Homer is a community-based, real-time housing marketplace that helps you find, compare and get alerts on rental homes from your community using the logic you define. Renters and homeowners use Homer everyday to improve their rental journey and shape the future of cities. It is an open source project supported by the IBM Builder Program and grant from New Ventures BC.
This repo is a work in progress. In fact, your first pull request could be to fix or add to this doc. Reach out to your team lead or anyone on the engineering team with questions, or try the Homer "hack at home" Slack workspace.
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Target users
- Billy is a local in Vancoucer and with Homer is able to receive complete well-specified, high-quality jobs safely and is paid [a percentage based on marketplace] with in-app rewards. Billy is able to choose which jobs to take on, know the requirements of each job upfront, know the rewards, and understand the job timeline to plan accordingly.
- Chloe the renter in Vancouver, able to receive complete, high-quality videos of available homes safely and pays [some percentage] in-app currency to other users, to find and rent a home more quickly.
- Judao the home-owner in Vancouver, looking for help with renting a vacant home.
Project brief
For Homer to flourish, it's important that people understand how it works! We are crafting a scalable, well-designed, fully open source web-app.
- Rules are written in Python; they can utilize any Python libraries or functions
- Serverless design is cheaper, easier to maintain, and scales to terabytes per day
- Deployment is automated: simple, safe and repeatable for any IBM account
- Secure by design: least-privilege execution, containerized analysis, and encrypted data storage
- Merge similar issues and automatically promote new features if they are not too niche
Sharing
- Tell users to star our repo if they find it interesting!
- If you use Homer to find a home, share your story on relevant networks. Invite people to check out our website and GitHub repository.
- Reach out to others who keep interest in your work and see if they can proactively communicate about your Homer.