Year in Review

Before we kick off the New Year, we think it’s important to take stock of the year that has passed–to review our progress as we press forward through 2007. It’s hard to imagine that just a year ago, we were live in one state. Of course, it’s important to reflect on what could’ve been done better as well, but I’ll save that for another blog post.

It’s been quite a year…

January
We launch our New York service, our first state outside of California. Curbed called our NYC announcement a “huge one” and both Gothamist and Rain City Guide liked our “nice” interface. Not a bad way to start the year!

February
We receive a belated Valentine’s Day present from Business 2.0 who featured us as one of the NextNet 25; one of 25 start-ups reinventing the Web.

March
We get personal with the launch of My Trulia. Offering home buyers the ability to save searches, save properties and manage email subscriptions. Our first ever white paper: “The Truth About Real Estate Search” is released.

April
Florida and Texas launch. Still seems like a long road to national coverage…

May
More real estate brokers see the value of the Trulia search model and sign up with Trulia. At least 15 partnerships are announced.

June
Trulia launches TruliaBlog as a new way to communicate with our friends in the real estate community, announce new products, and share our deep thoughts.

July
A busy month for Trulia. Our Markermen make their first public appearance–out and about at the Inman Connect Real Estate conference. TruliaMap launches, enabling listings to be mapped on agent and broker sites.

We also were delighted to win the 2006 Inman Innovator Award for Best Web Service.

August
Another ten states launch.

September
Trulia goes national, launching in all 50 states. Major new product enhancements were reported on in the blogosphere: we launched Heat Maps, neighborhood guides and our property comparables.

Both BusinessWeek and Future of Real Estate Marketing readers vote us the 2006 Best of the Web for Real Estate and Best Real Estate search site, respectively.

October
We discover an important alternate use case for Heat Maps.

November
It’s a month of videos! We decide to launch vlogging on TruliaBlog. And, Silicon Valley legend Robert Scoble comes into the office for an interview.

December
Thought we’d close the year out with a bang–we take our mash-ups to another dimension by adding Google Earth integration. We get visits from 3 oceans and the Real Estate Economy. Hit a major milestone with 1m for-sale listings on Trulia. Finally, we add an all star Real Estate Advisory Board to provide us their wisdom as we innovate into 2007.

Wow–what a year it was…we started the year in one state, now we’re in 50; we’ve imposed quality control standards to keep our listings clean; and looking at our traffic statistics, we’ve been growing an average of over 25% each month over the last 6 months.

We know that there is still a lot of work to be done, but for now, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our users, our partners and our ever expanding and very talented team of Trulians for making it all happen.

THANK YOU for making 2006 an exciting and very memorable year. Here’s to 2007!