avalore
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
This was in the early 90's. I wonder how effective this would be now with more automated systems in use.
Extract from the "model":
$yearsBetween = $comparisonItems->created_at->diffInYears(Carbon::now());
if ($yearsBetween <=1) {
$multiplier = 1.08;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 2) {
$multiplier = 1.12;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 3) {
$multiplier = 1.15;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 4) {
$multiplier = 1.22;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 5) {
$multiplier = 1.37;
} else {
$multiplier = 1.41;
}
Those multipliers were just from a bit of human-playing-around-with-the-data.The thing is, customers were happy with the result and, as far as I know, still are. Internally it was always called the random number generator.
I've been in this industry (SaaS for agents) for 6+ years. I may even have customer #1 for you (was asked only last week).
I'll ask the question also, if those portions aren't ready yet I'm sure they'll be in the works though.
They have a quick to implement SDK that will take care of licensing, payments, etc. Depending on how you want to price your app the 5% + 50c deal could also work out well.
We were approached to provide a quote, which turned out to be too expensive for them. We liked the idea so offered to do this for a 3 way split (two developers) with the understanding he would take care of sales (his background was sales and marketing). The situation changed after this but that's another story.
He originally came up with the idea from his parents who owned a couple of franchise letting agents and used to do this process with paper, pen and a digital camera.