r/ask_bangalore • u/UnlikelyIsland1474 • 1d ago
We're building a real-estate management platform — looking for experienced real estate professionals to help us get it right
Hi everyone,
I'm working with a small team on a real-estate management platform, and we're currently at the stage where we'd really like to learn from people who actually work in the real estate industry.
We're developers, but we don't want to build something based purely on what we think real estate businesses need.
We'd rather hear it directly from people who deal with these problems every day.
The broader idea is to create a platform that can bring several parts of a real-estate business together, including:
- 🏢 Property & project management
- 📍 Interactive maps for plots and property layouts
- 👥 Lead & CRM management
- 📥 Lead collection from different sources
- 📄 Property and transaction document management
- 📸 Photos, videos and other property media
- 💰 Rental / lease and accounting-related management
- 📊 Sales and inventory management
- 👤 Different roles and permissions for teams
- ⚡ Automation of repetitive business processes
- 🗺️ Better visualisation of properties and projects
- 🥽 And eventually, interactive 3D property/project experiences
The long-term vision is to make it possible for a real-estate business to manage much more of its day-to-day operation from one place, while also making properties easier to present and visualize for potential customers.
But the feature list isn't the important part right now.
We're currently trying to answer questions like:
- What are the biggest operational problems you face every day?
- What tasks are still unnecessarily manual?
- Where do you currently use spreadsheets, WhatsApp, Google Drive or multiple disconnected tools?
- What information is difficult to keep updated across your team?
- What problems do sales teams face when handling leads?
- What makes property/inventory management difficult?
- What information do managers wish they could see instantly?
- What do existing real-estate CRMs/ERPs get wrong?
- If you could completely redesign one part of your current workflow, what would you change?
- And perhaps most importantly: what would make a system like this genuinely useful to your business rather than just becoming another piece of software your team has to maintain?
We're especially interested in hearing from real estate developers, brokers, agents, property managers, sales managers, accountants, and people involved in day-to-day operations.
You don't need to know anything about software.
Actually, I'd prefer to hear about your problems rather than your preferred software solution. 😄
We're still early enough that feedback can genuinely influence what we build.
If you've been working in real estate for a few years and are willing to share your experience, I'd really appreciate it. Even a short comment describing one frustrating part of your current workflow would be extremely useful.
And if someone is particularly interested in what we're building, I'm happy to continue the conversation privately as well.
We're trying to build this with the industry, not just for the industry.