It’s been a minute since I’ve posted here. Truth is, I haven’t disappeared, I’ve just been buried in the grind of building something new: reSpots.
If you’ve ever tried to find a solid commercial real estate site, you know the pain. You bounce between spreadsheets, zoning codes, flood maps, demographic reports, and half a dozen browser tabs just to figure out if a site is even worth looking at. Most of the time, you waste hours (or days) only to realize the deal was dead from the start.
That’s where reSpots comes in. We built it to cut all that wasted time. Instead of digging through 10 different sources, you can see in minutes whether a property passes the big tests: zoning, environmental risk, demographics, supply, and market fit. It’s basically pre-due diligence in one platform, designed to help developers, brokers, and investors move faster and make better calls.
But getting here wasn’t easy. When I say I’ve been grinding, I mean long nights in front of my laptop, breaking APIs, fixing them, rethinking features, and running into roadblocks I didn’t even know existed. There were weeks where it felt like nothing was moving, times where the tech didn’t cooperate, and days where it was just overwhelming. Building a platform from scratch isn’t glamorous. It’s a constant fight to keep momentum and push through the frustration.
That’s the part most people don’t see. Everyone notices the launch, but not the late nights, the failed tests, or the ti
mes I thought about throwing in the towel. What kept me going was knowing that if I was struggling with site selection, other professionals were too. The industry needed a faster way to filter deals, and I wasn’t going to stop until we had it.
Now reSpots is live and growing. We’re starting with self storage, but expanding quickly into retail and residential. The vision is simple: save people hundreds of hours and let them focus on the deals that actually matter.
If you’re in commercial real estate and want to see how it works, check out reSpots.ai.