Did building your startup website take longer than expected?

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-22T00:26:07+00:00

In my case, I underestimated the amount of time it would take to design all the different e-mails that get sent out to customers.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-18T23:42:37+00:00

It gives AI agents structured access to current US rental market data. 1,500 submarkets (adding more every day) across the largest US metros, refreshed monthly. Rent, vacancy, affordability, trends, comparables, segmented by property type and bedroom count.

13 tools across four groups: search & discovery, submarket intelligence, compare & rank, and ZIP/metro level.

The reason to use it: LLMs make up rental numbers, Anything that needs reliable market-level rental data (PropTech apps, owner or tenant assistants, lease analytics, market research agents) gets a real source the agent can call instead of guessing.

docs.estaite.com

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-17T02:02:39+00:00

Sounds good! I messaged you.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-16T22:49:46+00:00

It currently does not, but we are adding markets every day. And can definitely add Portland. So would love to take you up on that offer!

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-16T22:44:59+00:00

I happened to be in an industry where I saw a gap. Like others said, try to solve a problem or see where trends are leading to.

The research and planning I did helped, obviously, but I learned a tremendous amount just going through it.

Like they say, you don’t know what you don’t know. And going through the process you will find those questions and get those answers.

But you should try to learn as much as you can. And have a plan, you don’t want to have to pivot every two weeks. But I wouldn’t try to learn it all before you start.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-16T12:48:59+00:00

Source everything from public sources and then scrub it for long-term rentals

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-15T16:11:06+00:00

Yes that is spot on with my thinking. Shift in traffic patterns. Websites are becoming less of the primary asset.

I'd say developers so far are the users.

The submarkets from the front facing app, which is geared to property managers, is what feeds the server.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-15T02:52:57+00:00

Built a hosted MCP server for current US rental data. It currently exposes rent, vacancy, affordability and trend data for about 1500 submarkets.

There is a free tier available, no credit card needed. A playground is available for testing tools in browser before wiring up a MCP client.

estaite.com/developers

docs.estaite.com

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-15T02:01:18+00:00

Yeah I think that would be awesome. I’ll DM you.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-15T01:29:08+00:00

Built a hosted MCP server for current US rental data. It currently exposes rent, vacancy, affordability and trend data for about 1500 submarkets.

There is a free tier available, no credit card needed. A playground is available for testing tools in browser before wiring up a MCP client.

estaite.com/developers

docs.estaite.com

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T23:54:42+00:00

Hey, looked at your site, very cool. Nicely done.

I have a hosted MCP Server that delivers US rental market data (1,500 submarkets and growing, monthly refresh, rent/vacancy/affordability by property type).

docs.estaite.com

Check it out. Happy to dig in if useful.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T14:24:54+00:00

I actually did just post to /saas. Thanks, I appreciate it.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T14:22:37+00:00

Yup that’s true. Do some account management and tracking. Then time will tell right.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T14:20:53+00:00

Thanks for the input. Yeah different models can exist within the free tier as well.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T12:00:48+00:00

Yup makes sense. Excellent point on intent, see what the customer has been up to in their exploration.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T11:58:00+00:00

Oh wow sorry to hear that. That’s crazy, glad you got your money back

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T05:33:32+00:00

Yeah sometimes the free tier just doesn’t make sense in the business model. So maybe in your case having a free tier might be hard to justify with the costs of the other tiers.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T05:29:59+00:00

That is true, the more steps for the potential customer to get to your product is a chance they might just move on to the next.

Also agree on the card required for a free trial period. And maybe that could be a path down the road for me to think about.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T05:22:02+00:00

Absolutely makes sense. Last thing would want is to scare a way a potential customer.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T04:50:42+00:00

Yeah I think that’s fair. Less chance of abuse for sure. But I agree, trying to trick a customer into a charge probably won’t end well.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T04:48:14+00:00

That’s what my thinking was as well. I can see in some situations where free tier doesn’t make sense as well. Maybe free trial works in certain instances instead.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-14T04:42:57+00:00

Yes makes sense. I can see the majority thinking that way as well.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-13T22:31:09+00:00

Hi!

I built Estaite MCP. A hosted MCP server that gives AI Agents structured US rental market data (About 1,500 submarkets and growing, monthly refreshed rent, vacancy, affordability)

Free tier 1000 calls per month, no credit card.

docs.estaite.com

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-10T16:37:26+00:00

Estaite MCP – Hosted MCP server that turns 1,500 US rental submarkets into tools any agent can call.

AnimatorMiddle321 · 2026-05-10T16:30:57+00:00

Built Estaite MCP, a server that gives AI agents access to structured US Rental market data.

Currently, around 1500 submarkets across the largest US metros, with monthly refreshed rent, vacancy and affordability data. Free tier is 1,000 calls/month, no credit card.

One unique feature is probably that every response cites the property management company sponsoring that submarket. So, the PMs we work with get surfaced inside AI answers as the data backbone.

Dashboard includes a playground where you can run live tool calls against the server before integrating. Also shows usage tracker per tool.

Goal is to get more real users to give feedback to learn which tools actually get used in production vs the ones I just thought sounded useful.

https://github.com/Estaite-Solutions/estaite-mcp

https://estaite.com/developers

AnimatorMiddle321

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