{"id":29430,"date":"2014-09-11T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=29430"},"modified":"2014-09-11T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T18:43:45","slug":"local-3d-tour-tech-upstart-surefield-design-jacked-heavyweight-competitor-matterport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/local-3d-tour-tech-upstart-surefield-design-jacked-heavyweight-competitor-matterport\/","title":{"rendered":"Local 3D Tour Tech Upstart Surefield Design-Jacked by Heavyweight Competitor Matterport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local startup Surefield<\/a> launched as a brokerage in April<\/a>, offering home sellers detailed, virtual-reality-style online 3D tours. A major part of their site is the listing detail pages, which hold their signature 3D tours and basic listing info about the home.<\/p>\n

Most other real estate listing sites have settled on a fairly standard layout for home listing detail pages—two columns, address and price at the top, photos on the upper-left, bullet-point list of property features, etc. Compare this Capitol Hill listing’s page on Redfin<\/a>, Zillow<\/a>, and Trulia<\/a> for a good example of what has become the standard layout.<\/p>\n

Surefield went with a very different and distinctive design—single column, 3D tour at the very top, big bold address and price under that, followed by a 3-column layout with the home’s description in the left column and the details in a bullet-free list format in the remaining two columns.<\/p>\n

Apparently the design is a hit… with their competition, anyway. 3D tour technology heavyweight Matterport<\/a>, who has raised $26 million since 2011<\/a> and recently rolled out a major partnership with Redfin<\/a>, has pretty much completely design-jacked Surefield’s listing detail page.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to a Surefield listing detail page<\/a>, and here’s a link to a Matterport listing detail page<\/a>. Compare them below.<\/p>\n

\"Surefield<\/a> \"Matterport<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Surefield<\/a> \"Matterport<\/a><\/p>\n

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Matterport even jacked the shrinking top-bar feature from Surefield.<\/p>\n

As well as I can tell Matterport didn’t straight-up copy any code, so this isn’t a sleazy as the Kirkland brokerage who ripped off Redfin code earlier this year<\/a>. Still, you would think that a company with $26 million would be able to pay for an original design rather than just ripping off a smaller upstart competitor.<\/p>\n

Full disclosure: The Tim is currently a Redfin shareholder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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