#greatwebsite

I had been stuck for finding a good website to look for a room to rent in Singapore until last night I found Homie!

This is quite a new site that allows landlords and tenants both post ads to voice out their needs and offers. You can customise your profile with pictures, photos of your places, renting conditions such as non-smoker and no-pet, also can write a short biography so that other people can filter the useful bits of information super easily. One of Homie's unique feature is that it has a map that locates listings and the nearby amenities. Believe me, this is exceptionally useful. I think it's the first one of its kind in Singapore. 

Another speciality of Homie is that the website offers the choice of looking for roommates. There will be thousands of profile with photo, biography and information of their needs for you to browse. If you like anyone, you can easily message them with a click!

Don't forget to 'shortlist' the 'candidates' so that you can review later! (This is another great feature of Homie.)

The website generally runs fast and has a nice, modern and smooth look. I reckon that it was created by the young minds. I mean young minds not binding to young age *blink*.

Well, now comes the best part. When I checked my email box, I saw the greeting email from Homie's administrator. It sounds normal, except for this part: "That's it! Reply to this email to say hi, or ask us any questions!"

My reaction after reading this line is "Oh I can just reply do say hi, really?" And I did. "Hi Darius

I just reply to say your website Homie is terrific! I'll rate it the best website to look for a roommate by now. The map that locates listings and nearby amenities is awesome. Thank you and your team to create Homie! :) 

Regards

Jennifer"

Actually I did not expect a reply. However, 10 mins later I receive an email from Darius. 

"Thanks Jennifer, we really, really appreciate your comment.

We really hope to create a good experience -

we are still early and the more people use it, the more useful it would become, so do let your friends know! (we will keep it free forever, in case you are wondering)

And do let us know how we can improve!

Thanks.

Darius

on behalf of team Homie"

This email is CC to the core team of Homie too. Oh gosh, can you see the developers of Homie is so nice! Exactly as he mentioned, I was wondering if Homie is free because an established site of searching for rooms Easyroommate charges us more than two dollars a day. So, this is a good news for everyone in Singapore!

Okay, the last interesting thing I've just found is that Darius is also in the developing team of BillPin - another cool app you all should take a look!

Found this courtesy of the Economist website:

www.thebrowser.com 

It collects reviews of dozens of interesting books on a vast range of topics, as well as interesting articles by the bagful. Look no further for interesting procrastination material. It's exactly what I've been looking for for ages - a one stop shop for high quality analysis on anything and everything. 

For example, fifteen minutes of 'browsing' led me to:

The mafia provides a neat identification strategy for isolating the effect of fiscal expansion.

Why we should be wary of economists' (and others) tendency towards quantification of everything.

Renting only beats buying as an investment a quarter of the time.

If only it were still 1973...How the McJobs recovery is undermining the position of (who else?) the middle class.