I recently bought my first house in the greater Wellington area, so have spent the last four or so months dealing with real estate agents. I think anything to reduce their influence is probably going to be popular. The fixed commission is probably a good move as it makes you look more neutral, unlike agents who wants the highest sale price possible.

From a buyer's point of view the biggest problem with the site is the low number of listings, but I imagine that will grow with time. Best of luck.

Thanks - here's hoping they'll accelerate in the new year!

Jef Raskin worked on an OS named Archy that also dealt with this problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Persistence

This reminds me of the boxes from Hell Pizza, which can be turned into a coffin "for your remains":

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hell+pizza+box+coffin&w=...

I registered just to see what the puzzles were. Some thoughts:

I found that you can answer the same puzzle multiple times, which you probably want to change.

For three of the puzzles, if you submit a blank form the website breaks.

You should make it more obvious how many sickles a user has. And why are they sickles anyway?

I don't know if this breaks your idea, but maybe add trivia questions as well as puzzles. That might be helpful when you're struggling to find new puzzles, and if a theme built up it might help build a community.

Good find on the blank submission. :-) Just pushed up a new build

Answering the same puzzle multiple times is by design: most of them randomly generate (except meaningoflife). And in theory our algorithm scales your reward based on the real-world difficulty of the problem. I'm sure it will take some tweaking, but it looks like meaningoflife is handing out 5-10 sickles at the moment, spiralling downward with each solve, while the resistor lattice is in the hundreds of sickles.

Sickle balance is on the page footer. Did you miss it? Should we move it to the top somewhere?

What kind of trivia questions do you want to see?

I didn't realise most puzzles change, I just answered the Meaning of Life three times and assumed I was cheating.

As for the sickle balance, I did find it, but think having username and balance on the top right works well on HN. Somewhere near the top would be an improvement on having it in the footer.

I didn't have any trivia questions in mind, I just figured the kind of people who like puzzles are probably mostly the same as those who like trivia. Maybe that's too easy to game though.

Another method:

Right-click picture, "Inspect Element"

Firebug expands

Right-click highlighted img element, "Delete Element"

Thanks a lot for the feedback (and to everyone else too). I'm going to try both of those ideas when I get home from work.

For "Modern Nerd" he didn't mention that the N and the D are the same character, putting two words into one, which I think looks very cool.

There's some cool looking stuff there. I had never seen "Light-Transmitting Concrete" before (http://en.red-dot.org/2838+M582dcf2224d.html).

HearWhere placed me in Mt Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand which is slightly off but very close.

Two minor things: 1) "DJ Carlito" came up as "�J CARLITO" and when I clicked on "Peaches" the "About Peaches" section was for a different group. Otherwise I thought it was pretty good.

nytimes.com busts out of the frame.