Troy Simon
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Real estate discovery

Home Squad

A mobile-first, video-first real estate platform designed around how younger buyers and renters actually browse, compare, and share properties.

Problem

Traditional real estate search leans heavily on static photos and dense listing pages. Home Squad needed a format that felt faster, more visual, and more natural for mobile-native users.

Approach

  • Centered the experience around short-form property video as the primary discovery artifact.
  • Balanced social browsing behavior with practical search and evaluation needs.
  • Designed the product direction so listings could be inspected quickly without losing context.

What shipped

  • Short-form video property discovery experience for buyers and renters.
  • Mobile-first product flow for browsing, saving, and evaluating listings.
  • Platform direction that moves the experience away from static listing galleries.

Stack

Mobile product UX Marketplace architecture Video-first discovery Product delivery

Constraints handled

  • Needed to make video feel useful for property evaluation, not just entertaining.
  • Had to preserve practical listing context while keeping the browsing flow fast.
  • Required marketplace thinking across supply, discovery, saved properties, and buyer or renter follow-up.

Next proof to add

The next proof layer should include launch status, listing supply, user engagement, and qualitative buyer/renter feedback.

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