Build a Shot List Generator for Real Estate Photographers

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   Template the craft that veterans carry in their heads

   Interview working real estate photographers and encode the standards: which rooms need wide plus detail, exterior angles by property type, twilight-worthy features, drone-worthy lots, and the per-room counts that fit each listing tier (a starter home brief differs from a luxury one). The generator is expertise packaging; the expertise must be real.

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   Generate from property facts, delivered mobile-first

   A one-minute intake (or pasted listing text parsed automatically) produces the plan: ordered room checklist, feature callouts, orientation-based timing advice for exteriors, and gear reminders. On site it is a tap-through checklist that works in a pocket between rooms; nobody carries a PDF through a four-shoot day.

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   Give the agent a voice before the shoot

   A shareable link where the listing agent flags what the sellers care about ('the pizza oven, the garden, the finished basement') feeds the plan and kills the largest reshoot category: the feature nobody mentioned. Agents experience the photographer as more professional, which is the referral loop.

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   Check completeness before delivery

   After the shoot, imported filenames or a quick tally check off the plan; the tool flags gaps (no kitchen wide, no backyard) while the photographer is still in the neighborhood. This single moment, catching a miss before the drive home, is the anecdote that sells subscriptions.

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   Price cheap and sell through the community

   A low monthly price a working photographer never questions, team tiers for real estate media companies running multiple shooters (their consistency problem is bigger than any solo's). Real estate photography groups, gear YouTube, and editing-service partnerships reach the whole niche cheaply.

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   Expand along the same workflow

   Adjacent niches (vacation rental photography with its amenity-checklist needs, commercial property, insurance documentation shoots) reuse the same engine with different templates, each a small bounded expansion rather than a pivot.

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