Week 6 was project week. I had to come up with my own idea and whilst I think its a valid one that isn't met by the market, expectation vs. reality was hard hitting this time. 

The idea was called Reality. It was trying to resolve the many issues in real estate, from misleading photos or information given by realtors to rewarding the ones who do a great job. There is an existing service that does this part already called RateMyAgent, but I wanted to integrate property management, search and selection on top. Quite ambitious!

I had structured a Rails backend that enabled a person to upload properties, give them details and even review the property. I had separate accounts and logins too. But the associations were already so complex, I spent the majority of the time working on them. It was only until the day before that I created a simple front end and this was not ideal. It was ugly!

Whilst the experience was intense, there was a lot to be learned from the process and I was to take the learnings into a tough problem in a group project.