I built BrickCheck because I got tired of having 20 tabs open every time I found a house I liked. I wanted to see the actual data (crime rates, internet speeds, school ratings) right next to the listing, without jumping between different government websites.
The Problem: Rightmove and Zoopla give you the sales pitch, but they don't easily show you the "red flags" or the raw financial reality (like true monthly cost vs. yield).
The Solution: BrickCheck is a dashboard that aggregates data from the Land Registry, Ofsted, Police.uk, and Ofcom.
Key Features:
Deep Data: Instantly pulls crime rates, broadband speeds, and school ratings for any postcode.
Smart Stats: Calculates Price/sq ft and calculates stamp duty.
Floorplans: Uses vision analysis to break down room sizes and flag "box rooms" that are listed as double bedrooms.
Financials: You can set your custom Deposit & Mortgage Rate preferences to see the real monthly cost for every property.
Tech Stack: It’s a React/Next.js app wrapped with Capacitor for mobile.
It’s currently in v1. I’d love feedback on which data points you find most critical when comparing homes!
Funny, just to check I picked 5 random BBC articles about ISRO off Google search. 3 didn't mention anything like that, one said arguments that India shouldn't invest in space tech are misguided and one cited low salaries as part of why the project was so impressively cheap compared to western programs. That doesn't seem particularly worthy of outrage?
> It is the same publication that cannot complete any ISRO/Science related article without highlighting first how poor india is!
That's ad hominem. If you have a specific point mention that. If the only document you will accept is from RSS mouthpieces then there is no point in the conversation.
Previous govt had huge concerns as well. PM Singh said "The atomic energy programme has gone into difficulties because these NGOs [non-governmental organisations], mostly I think based in the United States, don't appreciate the need for our country to increase the energy supply."
Also, Important to note that some of the changes to laws for NGOs were done during congress led UPA govt as well. It is just that changes to laws have now been highlighted more by mainstream media.
Every provider has their own walled garden. Several offerings just tie companies to the vendor. For example, with AWS - services like ECS, EKS or even Redshift go very well with the AWS ecosystem. Try getting data into Redshift for example.
There is no doubt that AWS is more mature. You make few points:
- poor documentation
- no security auditing tool
- API limits.
In my experience 1 and 3 are true for AWS as well. AWS has automated tools to detect things but to say that GCP does not have any such offering is not true. It may not be automated and that goes to the larger point of AWS being more mature.
It is amazing to see how we declare something as too obvious or natural. Like trunk based development, so obvious that questioning it makes one a fool :-)
Git and its model was the best thing few years back. Now since google is doing all its dev in the main trunk/master, it must be correct and more intelligent.
Wouldn't it be a case that they went with what they had at a certain time and continue to use it as everyone is used to it and it still works? Not sure if google analysed if branching was bad and then chose trunk based development?
I cannot understand how a company that has a well defined process doing branches, is doing it wrong? or how it is so not optimal etc. I guess it is a matter of processes and culture. None of the great companies are great because their source control strategy (or code) was excellent.
We developers always over analyse everything and come up with excellent logic and some of us are gifted with words more than others.
At least on two occasions i have seen configuration as literal code (like in config as java, scala, python code). While config as code could be beneficial, using it as literal code is not optimal.
If coding is such an art and so important to the industry, why are all people at the top do not have a git hub account to show? They must still be "passionate" about coding, no? Or is it a function of how much money you have?
Facebook worked not because of some guy wrote great, highly maintainable code. It worked because of the idea. Same with others great companies.
If there were these unicorn people who did not write "unmaintainable junk" there would be no security bugs, hacks, leaks etc.
All big companies have recruited "the best" for forever. Can any one of them guarantee a bug free software. They can't. Suddenly, all these passionate people with their github account do not look sexy.
Insisting on a side project is similar to people insisting on TDD and i am sure TDD does not solve the problem of bugs in code.
I built BrickCheck because I got tired of having 20 tabs open every time I found a house I liked. I wanted to see the actual data (crime rates, internet speeds, school ratings) right next to the listing, without jumping between different government websites.
The Problem: Rightmove and Zoopla give you the sales pitch, but they don't easily show you the "red flags" or the raw financial reality (like true monthly cost vs. yield).
The Solution: BrickCheck is a dashboard that aggregates data from the Land Registry, Ofsted, Police.uk, and Ofcom.
Key Features:
Deep Data: Instantly pulls crime rates, broadband speeds, and school ratings for any postcode.
Smart Stats: Calculates Price/sq ft and calculates stamp duty.
Floorplans: Uses vision analysis to break down room sizes and flag "box rooms" that are listed as double bedrooms.
Financials: You can set your custom Deposit & Mortgage Rate preferences to see the real monthly cost for every property.
Tech Stack: It’s a React/Next.js app wrapped with Capacitor for mobile.
It’s currently in v1. I’d love feedback on which data points you find most critical when comparing homes!
Link: https://brickcheck.io/