We made a Buy Button for real estate

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We made a Buy Button for real estate

Hi HN! At Open Listings, we build technology to make buying a house simpler and more affordable. Ultimately, we want to make buying a house as simple as clicking a button. Our core technology is really our transaction process. While we also provide some shopping tools for house hunters, we recognize that people don’t just use 1 site when they’re searching for a home. In the spirit of supporting our clients even if they’er shopping on other sites, we made a “buy button” that we hope will work anywhere. When you click, it looks for address and MLS# on your current page and fills them in on our offer form. It’s the fastest way to make an offer on a piece of real estate. Also it’s open source, so if you find a real estate site that this doesn’t work on, feel free to send us a pull request: https://github.com/openlistings/open_listings_chrome Fun trivia: pg suggested we call it “Buyjacking” but we thought that sounded too much like we were stealing someone else's business. We’re just trying to build tools to make the buying process less painful and thought this was a fun idea in that spirit.