Thanks! Was a fun project to do. I have a bunch of ideas to make it better, but I decided to let it rest for a bit and focus on other stuff. Might put in a bit more effort if it keeps getting the interest it's getting now!
Marketplace for painters and those looking to hire them
http://ehirepainter.com/
Inspite of investing ~$50k in marketing efforts, could not get enough customers to list their projects.
I built a corporate 360 degree employee feedback system. It is basically google-page-rank-algorithm applied to feedback system and few other mathematical tricks to auto-normalize. Not sure though so many HR heads liked the idea but i could not make them write a cheque. You can look at the first video on this page:http://www.groupraisal.com/ to know the details.
Please get rid of the video titled "What the ?" on your home page. It is very unprofessional. If I was in HR, or even if I wasn't, I wouldn't touch your company after seeing that video on your home page.
I created a sheet which shows the same calculation as above. It shows how when the selling price increases with respect to reference price(agreed between seller and broker) both benefit. Actual listing price on MLS does not have to be same as the reference price.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RZPJ0PxdZo-tMwsTG3g7...
This ensure that the seller broker interest is aligned with the seller. And the broker will tend to come up with a realistic price as reference price rather than an inflated price before signing the contract and then constant nagging for reducing the price after signing the contract.
Why would anyone enter a contingency deal with penalties? Relative to maximizing your sell price-- better to invest in extra fluff & buff, designer quality staging. Make sure your property gives buyers a Wow Factor.
With small tweaks i think all of the shortcomings mentioned here can be taken care of. e.g. provide much larger tax rebates as lottery instead of actual money. These rebates are much more beneficial to the rich who spend the most and are the ones who evade taxes the most.
Then most of the ordinary consumers(people) will confuse and lose the motivation to ask for this receipt. Because a lot of Chinese people don't, don't need and don't know how to fill tax return.
The government don't want to do that as well, because if then they are indirectly educate people there is a concept of tax return exists, which is most people don't aware of. That is a big chunk of money government steal away from people every year.