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Tracking KN95 mask prices while researching Jamstack technologies for RealBird

While researching JAMStack and static page generator technologies for upcoming RealBird products, I started a personal project aggregating kN95 mask prices across various international marketplaces.

The goal of this project is twofold: I have been interested in how prices of a "hot" product change over time on major marketplaces and KN95 masks fit this category perfectly. I was also looking for a smaller scale project to run some real-world experience with GatsbyJS, the static site generator framework used for maskprice.info

In the back, the project scans Amazon USA, AliExpress and Rakuten Germany for masks advertised as KN95 types (please note that we don’t verify that these products actually match the filtration criteria KN95. ) We then use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workers to get unit prices and availability for these products. The data and data collection techniques are open sourced and available on Github

The React/Garsby based front-end then uses this data to build the site and charts. For the front-end showing historical prices and price distribution per marketplaces please see maskprice.info

We’ll follow up with more details about upcoming RealBird products and redesigns utilizing some of these new technologies.

Your feedback and inquiries are most appreciated.

-- Zoltan

RealBird.com

Get RealBird PRO for only a buck

Get RealBird PRO for only $1 per first month (new member special)

This offer is available for new members and includes all RealBird PRO features including unlimited listing marketing for coming soon, active, sold listings, virtual tours, SMS text code marketing features, listing QR codes, rental listing syndication and much much more.

New member special is only $1 for the first month via this link (renews at $25/month, but it's month-to-month subscription, that can be canceled any time) 

New RealBird blog

We are going to retire this Typepad blog as our primary RealBird corporate blog at the end of this year. In fact, we are already posting on our new RealBird blog posts exclusively on our new site for some time.

The new blog platform allows us way more control over the look and feel and also about how we do our own SEO and adding new search engine optimizations with guest blogging, featured listings by RealBird members and case studies.

All existing feed subscribers are transitioned to the RealBird Articles and will continue to receive email updates, or if you haven't yet, you can visit https://articles.realbird.com and sign up to the RealBird newsletter there.

Let us know what you think about the new RealBird blog

Thank you

-- The RealBird Team

www.realbird.com

Cold Calling for Expireds: make people LIKE and HIRE you! Guest Speaker: Shelly Northern

Join Shelly Northern of Compass and us for a free RealBird webinar: "Cold Calling for Expireds"

Shelly came to the U.S. from England. She has 11+ years of real estate experience as a broker and agent,  and was co-presenter on Sky TV’s “Million Dollar Dream Homes”. She has handled many different kinds of residential and commercial real estate, and has gained a diverse client base. One of her successful strategies is based on  what makes FSBOs and owners of expired listings list their property with her.  In this webinar she will share her recipe and tips!

The RealBird webinar is free as always and will be held on June 20, 2018, from 8 AM to 9 AM Pacific time (11 AM to 12 PM, Eastern Time).

Reserve your spot today, register here for for the webinar

 

Open House Registration Form Reimagined with QR and SMS Text Code

 
A new sign-in form page is now automatically created for all of your listings on RealBird. You can use it at for-sale residential, rental and even at commercial open houses as a registration form for visitors. You'll get the benefit of capturing visitor information for your follow up marketing, while visitors can use their smartphones and receive instant details of the open house by bookmarking your RealBirde-flyer.

You can load this new open house sign-in form on your laptop or tablet as an alternative or side-by-side to paper sign-in forms or you can print and show the QR code that we provide as well, so that visitors can load the sign-in form easily and automatically on their own smartphone. Now that both Android and IPhone devices support QR codes natively with their built-in camera app, this is an easy and effective way to capture the visitor's contact information for follow ups.

Just login to RealBird, publish your listing and your new open house sign-in form is automatically created for you right away.

We hope you like this new marketing tool. Your sellers or landlords sure will :)

— The RealBird Team

p.s we are also started a new sweepstake and we'll be giving away a Amazon Fire tablet. Just visit your Reward section on RealBird and invite your colleagues via that page to collect points. You’ll be automatically enrolled.