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Re:The Startup Graveyard on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:48PM (#46695192)
Works surprisingly well.
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.
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.

How about following: asking/reference price is determined at the time of signing the contract.

"For every 1% change in the selling price, seller broker will get 10% change in commission rate. i.e.

Sell price Seller broker commission

Reference/asking price 2.5%

1% less than asking 2.25%

5% less than asking 1.25%

10% less than asking 0% (same for anything more than 10% less than asking price.

1% higher than asking 2.75%

5% higer than asking 3.75%

Ask HN: Why would seller broker not put their skin in the game?

As soon as I listed my property for sale by owner on zillow, i started getting 100s of calls(10x more than actual buyers) from realtors wanting to be my seller broker. Though i offered to pay 2.5% buyer broker commission most realtors were selling hard to be seller broker instead of taking advantage of the buyer broker commission.So i offered the following: "Besides giving me the listing price...

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Re:SQL interface for Elasticsearch on Monday November 16, 2015 @08:56PM (#10578712)
Absolutely agree. ES query is difficult to read.
Users are always looking for enhancements and willing to pay for them. Allow people to bid features up, by paying.
Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement on Sunday April 22, 2012 @11:53AM (#3875115)
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.
Re:One hiring filter that works on Friday April 06, 2012 @11:37AM (#3807543)
I found this very intriguing and decided to try. Here is my version of the filter: http://www.careesma.in/employer/joboffer/view/id/124996

Any thoughts/feedback welcome.

Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? on Friday March 23, 2012 @08:22PM (#3747991)
SQL is the best
Re:Poll: What is Your Favorite Programming Language? on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:11AM (#3745485)
SQL

Didn't realize SQL was an option too.

Re:Poll: What is Your Favorite Programming Language? on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:06AM (#3745468)
python

Wondering how the points are assigned to each language.

Re:Why we need Python in the Browser on Thursday March 15, 2012 @08:38AM (#3708118)
I do agree that we need a language with static typing so that one can have some level of confidence before releasing the code to production. Having said that python definitely is much better than javascript.
I agree. If noSQL/SQL vendors start providing a common query mechanism for both SQL and coSQL, it will lead to huge adoption of noSQL products resulting in a huge transformational effect on data persistence.
Re:Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss on Saturday March 12, 2011 @11:17PM (#2318300)
It is very difficult to measure the quality of each manager on these eight effective habits in an objective manner. What is the opinion of this group, about, google people rank algorithm(ratings from good performers carry higher weight and vice versa) to rate employees within the company.