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Building a Voice-First Property Search with OpenAI Realtime

Dec 04, 2025#engineering #voice-ai #openai #webrtc #real-time

Building a Voice-First Property Search with OpenAI Realtime

How Homi uses OpenAI's GA Realtime API, short-lived client secrets, WebRTC, and a shared tool registry to turn conversation into property-search actions.

Kristian Elset Bø

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Email Audience Segmentation Without Schema Pollution

Nov 02, 2025#engineering #email-marketing #backend #data-architecture

Email Audience Segmentation Without Schema Pollution

How we built a campaign-ready sync system for Loops that computes dynamic user segments on-demand without polluting our database schema or scattering one-off updates throughout our codebase.

Kristian Elset Bø

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Still No UI Survives First Contact: A Sequel

Oct 20, 2025#engineering #ui-design #user-feedback #iteration

Still No UI Survives First Contact: A Sequel

Remember when we redesigned our Add Property dialog and wrote about it? Turns out that design also didn't survive. Here's how we got it right (this time, we think).

Kristian Elset Bø

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Building GDPR-Compliant User Deletion: A Full-Stack Approach

Oct 15, 2025#engineering #privacy #gdpr #backend

Building GDPR-Compliant User Deletion: A Full-Stack Approach

How we implemented user deletion at Homi with PII anonymization, analytics provider updates, and proper dependency handling—all while maintaining data integrity.

Kristian Elset Bø

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No UI Survives First Contact with Users

Oct 13, 2025#engineering #ui-design #user-feedback #iteration

No UI Survives First Contact with Users

How we rebuilt our 'Add Property' dialog three times in one session based on real user feedback. A case study in iterative design and the importance of staying flexible.

Kristian Elset Bø

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