HomeDeetz
For buying a home online — score, model, offer, close.
HomeDeetz
A guided platform for buying a home online — score properties on what actually matters, model the mortgage, draft the offer, run the closing. End-to-end for first-time buyers.
Most house-hunting tools optimize for what's easy to measure (square footage, listing price, photos) and ignore what actually predicts buyer satisfaction twelve months in (schools, walkability, transit, neighborhood trajectory). HomeDeetz inverts that.
What it does
| Stage | Module |
|---|---|
| Prepare | Income + savings + credit assessment. Down-payment grants. Homeownership lessons. |
| Search | Map-based browsing with HomeDeetz Score per property. |
| Analyze | Mortgage calculator (P&I + tax + insurance + HOA). Comparative market analysis. Investment insights. |
| Tour | Schedule in-app showings. Pre-tour briefings. Synced post-tour notes. |
| Offer | AI-assisted drafting. Counter-offer modeling. Attorney-review hooks. |
| Close | Document prep checklist. Inspector coordination. Closing-day dashboard. |
The HomeDeetz Score is the opinionated piece — a composite across walkability, schools, parks, grocery, transit, and assessed-value-vs-ask, weighted by what correlates with buyer satisfaction in our data.
What I'm publishing here
A focused, interactive Mortgage Calculator built from the same codebase, embedded directly into this site. Adjust price, down payment, rate, term, taxes, insurance, HOA — see the monthly number move in real time. It's a single building block from a larger platform.
How it's built
React + Vite for the SPA shell, Supabase for auth + storage + Postgres, Google Maps for the property map, React Query for the data layer, shadcn/ui as the component vocabulary so the design stays consistent without me building primitives twice.
The interesting architectural choice is the score-first information hierarchy — the platform refuses to let you look at a property page without the score showing first. That's a product decision more than a technical one, but it shapes the data model: every property has scores cached and ready before it's listable.
Status
Live, in active development. Mortgage calculator is the most-polished public surface; the full guided flow is being tested with first-time buyers in Chicago.