How a coder used ChatGPT to search out an house in Berlin in 2 weeks after struggling for months

• Daniel Dippold, a founder and investor, used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to search out an house in 2 weeks.
• The 28-year-old used the AI to counsel alternate options to housing web sites and automate the search course of.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT appears to have infinite potential use instances as individuals flock to the expertise to plan holidays, improve their relationship profiles, and even drop extra pounds. One coder-turned-investor used the chatbot to search out an house.

Daniel Dippold, the 28-year-old CEO and founding father of enterprise capital agency EWOR, and his girlfriend had spent 4 months on the lookout for an house to lease in Berlin with no success. German housing platforms like Immo Scout24, immowelt, and Immonet did not supply items they appreciated, and when he turned to his community, there have been no good leads.

“I obtained actually fearful as a result of there was actually nobody capable of present a flat,” Dippold instructed Insider.

Then, Dippold, who started utilizing OpenAI’s ChatGPT and was quickly “coding with it on a regular basis,” turned impressed by the chatbot’s capabilities. He puzzled if he might use ChatGPT to safe an house.

“Once I was actually exhausted on the lookout for a flat in Berlin, I figured, ‘Hey, can I construct one thing that makes it simpler for me doubtlessly with GPT?'” he puzzled. It labored.

First, Dippold requested ChatGPT to counsel 20 issues he might do to search out an house utilizing “a way that is a bit more ingenious and tech-focused” than on-line platforms. The chatbot spit out 20 choices, together with organising automated alerts on housing web sites and growing a machine-learning mannequin to foretell which areas have the very best offers.

A few of these ideas “impressed him,” however many weren’t sensible, he stated. Consequently, he requested ChatGPT to generate 40 extra ideas. He zeroed in on his favourite: compiling a database of all the private and non-private property managers in Berlin to contact.

He appreciated this feature as a result of he might ask them if they’ve residences that will quickly be available on the market to get forward of the competitors.

Subsequent, he requested ChatGPT to construct an internet scraper — a device that extracts information from web sites — in Python that might create a database populated with the names of all of the property managers in Berlin. The chatbot spit out a script, and after Dippold tweaked its code, the bot produced a database full of greater than 100 property administration companies, every with a number of residences that got here with an handle, location, cellphone quantity, and e-mail.

“That sped up the method even additional,” he stated.

After that, he manually wrote emails in German — GPT is healthier in English, he says — to every administration firm on the record. He included contact data, in addition to why he and his associate can be good tenants. He obtained 35 responses in simply in the future. Insider verified the method with screenshots of the chatbot’s responses and with emails from housing authorities.

Since he did not need to manually reply to every e mail, Dippold requested ChatGPT to generate code that may create automated responses that would come with private paperwork like their passports and pay stubs. This meant the couple was capable of ship out their utility supplies earlier than different potential tenants.

He narrowed down the record to a few items that his girlfriend later toured based mostly on their most well-liked measurement, value, and placement. Dippold and his girlfriend at the moment are selecting between considered one of two residences that accepted their purposes because of ChatGPT.

Utilizing the chatbot to search out housing, Dippold stated, was a “inventive resolution” that he discovered “quicker” and “increased high quality” than conventional modes of house looking.

Nonetheless, Dippold admits the chatbot is not good. Lots of the options ChatGPT advised, he stated, had been “absolute crap,” similar to making a chatbot to speak to landlords and signing a lease with out seeing the place in-person.

The AI solely understood quick prompts with little context, produced “buggy” code riddled with errors, and generated solutions “that had been simply fallacious.”

Nonetheless, he was capable of finding workarounds by asking the bot follow-up prompts and drawing from his personal coding experience to repair bugs.

As a self-proclaimed digital nomad, there isn’t a doubt he’ll use ChatGPT to search out housing once more sooner or later.

“I’d positively do that once more,” Dippold stated.

Disclosure: immowelt is a part of the AVIV Group, which is a part of Axel Springer, Insider’s father or mother firm.