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Why I'm building Deedio
An off-market real estate platform that connects buyers with owners who want to sell - and puts autonomy back in real estate. I'm building it because it's the product I want.
- deedio
- real estate
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Mission
Put autonomy back in real estate - help buyers find affordable property by connecting them directly with the owners who want to sell.
Deedio is an off-market real estate platform for Tennessee, starting in the Tri-Cities. I’m building it because it’s a product I want - a straightforward way to find property and talk to the people who own it, on terms both sides set.
Why I’m building it
Plenty of owners would sell to the right buyer at the right time - but would never list publicly. No sign in the yard, no strangers walking through on a Saturday, no agents calling. Buyers never find out those properties are even an option.
Deedio is the bridge. Owners decide if and when they’d ever sell, buyers get a direct line to property that never hits the market, and nobody is pushed into anything. That’s the autonomy part - the owner and the buyer are back in the driver’s seat.
How it works
- Owners claim their property privately and see a value estimate. Nothing is public unless they choose to make it so.
- Owners choose how open they are - just tracking their value, open to conversations, or actively exploring a sale - and can change it anytime.
- Buyers reach owners only through the doors owners open. No cold calls, no flood of agents.
- Listing is free, permanently, and Deedio never takes a share of a sale. Agents are welcome whenever an owner or buyer wants one.
How I’m building it
It’s just me, building alongside my day job in BI. Deedio runs on Next.js and Supabase, with Mapbox for the maps, and I build it with Claude Code as a pair programmer.
Under the hood there’s a Python pipeline that pulls county parcel data from the Tennessee Comptroller, so every property in a covered county already exists on Deedio before its owner ever claims it. We’re starting in the Tri-Cities region and expanding county by county.
What I’ve learned so far
The hardest part isn’t getting people to sign up - it’s willing sellers. A marketplace like this is only as good as the owners who are open to a conversation, so that’s where most of my focus is right now.
If you own property in East Tennessee and have ever wondered what it’s worth - or you’d sell to the right buyer someday - claim it at deedio.ai. It’s free, and it stays private until you say otherwise.