We got our monthly newsletter out just in time for the holiday. We sent it to 135,021 folks, up 7% from last month. You can always read our newsletter here, but if you’d like to receive it via email, just sign up. Enjoy! Lisa Happy Thanksgiving Redfinnians! Lots of big Redfin news this month, and… Read More
Redfin just published an essay on TechCrunch about what we learned from venture capitalists while raising money. Some of the small-is-beautiful thinkers here in Seattle may say it’s just another how-to guide for kissing investors’ fannies rather than boot-strapping a business. Not true! Our point wasn’t to tell people how to raise money; the entrepreneurs who are… Read More
The Ravens just beat the Browns 16 – 0, but those of you without a Tivo may have noticed something else about the Monday Night Football telecast: a new Apple iPhone ad featuring the Redfin iPhone app. On seeing it, Scott Nagel, Vice President, Real Estate Operations, hardly one given to over-the-top displays of emotion,… Read More
Twitter has certainly been on everyone’s minds lately. The company’s traffic has declined recently, but its news coverage hasn’t. TechCrunch has written about Twitter 45 times in the last 15 days alone — including MG Siegler’s magisterial 2,500-word think-piece on Twitter’s re-tweet function . Over the same fortnight, TechCrunch has written about only one other… Read More
Big news! We just announced a $10-million round of financing led by Greylock Partners’ James Slavet and his colleague David Thacker. Redfin’s group of existing investors — Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, DFJ, The Hillman Company — also pitched in on the round. We couldn’t be happier about the team behind us. Like all the… Read More
Redfin.com’s performance and stability problems, which began with Thursday morning’s upgrade and continued until this evening, seem to be over. All the photos and details of recently sold homes that became available with this upgrade had caused our database to fail under high user load . We resolved the problem by tuning the database and… Read More
This morning we did a massive update to our website increasing the amount of photos and data we store 340%. Unfortunately, our website was offline from about 6:40 AM PST until 9 AM PST and then intermittently until 2:20 PM PST because of the increase in the amount of data coupled with the load from… Read More
First of all, a warning. If you’re browsing this post in a car, or while you’re listening to someone blather away on the phone, pull over, mute the line, buckle up, REMAIN CALM. We’ve got some good stuff to tell you about. Really good stuff. Sometime in the wee hours of the night last night,… Read More
Since launching our iPhone app two months ago we’ve been glued to the App Store compulsively checking our app’s rating and reading the reviews, and for good reason, our iPhone app is 10% of site traffic on weekends. Overwhelmingly the feedback has been positive; folks love the app. However, there were some folks bummed out… Read More