We are happy to announce that Joel Beasley has joined us as lead software developer.
Joel is a talented technologist, with just enough real estate experience. Most recently, he led a team that stitched together torn patches of technology within large real estate brokerages. A tough job. And he’s got almost a decade of building really good web apps under his belt.
He’s smart, sensible and intensely focus on usability. We like that.
Why
When Marc and I started 1000watt, we decided to build a business around a simple belief we shared:
Real estate is important, and it must be better.
We’ve tried to remain true to that in our work, helping companies aiming, in their own ways, to improve this industry. It has been successful and fulfilling. That work will continue to expand.
But we want to take things a little further. So we’re going to build products – web apps – small projectiles hurled against the dark glass of real estate’s “Fortress of Suckitude.” They may crack the barriers or bounce right back in our face, but we’re going to have at it nonetheless.
It’s an exciting time to be doing this. The era of crappy real estate software is waning. The prevailing modus operandi of the real estate tech community over the past 20 years – selling stupid stuff to stupid people – is dissolving in the face of new apps and savvier real estate pros.
We’ve built products before. We’ve succeeded and we’ve failed. We know some things, but don’t know so many more. So we’ll ask for your help along the way.
But the first thing we ask is that you help us welcome Joel. He’s signed on for a fun but long adventure – one on which we hope you’ll ride along too.
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Would love to see something based on Filemaker Pro Cross Platform Database. I know REST has developed something, what I’d like is something where I can customize the fields AND still have contact management (call in 3 days, send email in 5 days, send letter 1 in 10 day) functionality.
Ira
Welcome Joel #2. Look forward to seeing the apps you guys have in mind. Thanks
Welcome Joel. I look forward to following your work.
Cheers,
Mark, this is a great opportunity and wish you the best. The only problem is that there are thousand to one stupid agents out there getting stupid products, and a majority of the rest won’t pay for anything good, because they don’t want to spend money and they resist learning anything new. I just developed a major project with a regional media company, and know all to well that the agents mentality is to keep practicing Einsteins theory of insanity. But you have a have a large following, and I didn’t.
For those who follow you and yearn for change, here’s their opportunity to put their money where their mouth is…because nithingnof value is for free.
Go for it guys, and knock em dead!
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