January 2, 2026
PDFs, Prompts & Property Drama
OfferGridAI – side-by-side comparison of real estate offers from PDFs
OfferGridAI turns messy home-offer PDFs into a clean grid—agents cheer, HN demands receipts
TLDR: OfferGridAI auto-compares real estate offers from PDFs into a quick, sharable grid with risk scores. Commenters split between loving the time-saver and calling out US-only labeling, Show HN rule violations, and the spicy claim it’s “just a prompt,” while asking for real paying customers.
A solo dev dropped OfferGridAI, promising to turn chaotic, 10–20 page home-offer PDFs into a clean side-by-side grid with prices, financing, contingencies, closing dates, and risk scores—all in under two minutes and the first property is free. Listing agents in hot markets say this could save hours of spreadsheet pain, and the founder claims it came from watching real-world chaos. But the crowd didn’t just nod; they sharpened their keyboards.
The first flare-up: gatekeeping. One commenter barked, “Sign-up pages are not Show HNs”, linking the rules (showhn) and implying the post wasn’t up to community standards. Another demanded clarity: “title should indicate American market”—translation: don’t make it look global if it’s US-only. Then came the classic startup interrogation: “how many paying customers do you have?” because traction talks. And of course, the meme moment: “This app could have been a prompt”—a jab suggesting it’s just a simple AI wrapper rather than a hard product.
Between the snark, some quietly cheered the “export a clean PDF for sellers” pitch and the no-credit-card free first use. The vibe: agents are curious, the dev is earnest, but the comment section is a cocktail of rule-lawyering, market nitpicking, and prompt-shaming—peak internet energy for a tool that wants to end spreadsheet suffering.
Key Points
- •OfferGridAI extracts key terms from multiple real estate purchase-offer PDFs and generates a side-by-side comparison grid.
- •The tool identifies price, financing, contingencies, closing timelines, and calculates risk scores for each offer.
- •An example grid shows fields including purchase price, down payment, earnest money, contingencies, closing date, and net to seller.
- •Results are promised in under two minutes, with no manual data entry and a seller-ready output, including a PDF export option.
- •Pricing includes pay-per-property and monthly subscription options; the first property analysis is free with no credit card required.