Happy to announce — or maybe not, because I’m currently drowning in backlogs of unfinished projects, fahhkk — that I’ve taken on another commissioned project for a business called JTerra Property Group.
It’s a real estate sales agency founded by my sister. And on a little tangent, this will probably spell out changes in my life as well, in a lot of ways.
First, you’d have to know that apart from me coding nonstop daily, I also work part-time as a sales administrative admin for a company in the exact same industry my sister is building her company in. Matter of fact, she works there too as a senior sales agent. But since she basically solo-carried that company with all the sales, it makes sense for her to just start her own business instead of staying there, pretty much.
Builders that she’s already in contact with are on board with the decision, other sales agents from my current job are willing — or actually already did — move away to work for my sister, and yeah, this spells certain doom for my current job.
I’m doing this job temporarily while finding either a permanent software dev role, or until one of these slop projects I’m currently cooking actually pays off, which will EVENTUALLY happen. Just trust me, bro. But until then, I’ll probably either work another job or get absorbed as the admin for this company, which, with my very not-so-stellar performance in my current work, would be unlikely. Lmao.
Anyways, that out of the way, this project surprised me. I thought I was already battle-hardened by a lot of frameworks and stacks at this point, but this project introduced me to CRM and CMS systems.
All this time, there was already a built-in framework for handling role-based access controls, admin dashboards, and endpoint management? What the fhuhck?
Anyways, I was introduced to my first CMS, and an open-source, headless one too: Payload. I haven’t gotten too far into the development of the project where I’ve fully integrated it, but when I do, it’ll probably be sicc from what I hear.
Then there’s also HubSpot, which is industry-grade but expensive as hell at scale. CRM is basically a system used to efficiently track and handle customer relationships and their respective email correspondence, so now everything about one particular client is in one isolated area, making it easier to track. Which is actually pretty cool.
However, HubSpot isn’t really headless, and there were already heavy limitations right at the beginning, especially with only two seats available on the free version. Luckily, Payload can also be upgraded to cover CRM features too, so I’ll probably be building that in the future.
Overall, it’s nice that someone finally reached out. Honestly, they only reached out because they’re relatives, but hey — it’s a start, I’ll take that.
Anyways, if you want to buy some properties in Melbourne, go check us out:
https://jterrapropertygroup.com.au/
Deadass, we’re the biggest and bestest sales associate in Melbourne. It may come out as biased, not gonna lie, but I swear to God, we are goated fr. I’ve seen other agencies — they are buns, my guy. I swear to God.
