Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
For the past few months, I've been working on a website that answers two different questions: - Where in my city have the best travel times to all the things and people I care about? - Given a listing, how far is it from all the things and people I care about? Personally this was fueled by my own frustrations when I was apartment hunting in NYC. I was frustrating to have to juggle so many Google Maps tabs when I was evaluating a listing, and it was also annoying to not have full confidence that I was even searching in the right places. I wanted to be close to work, a Trader Joe's, and a…
This website creates heatmaps of cities based on a user's housing preferences, showing travel times to locations and people that matter to them. It helps apartment hunters evaluate neighborhoods and listings by… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I wanted to build a tool to help people decide when and where to travel. As I started building, I realized that "when" and "where" need separate treatment to be most useful. The map tool handles "where" best: https://championtraveler.com/travel-weather-map/ Clicking through each week would be frustrating for those who know where they want to travel but not when. For these people I built "best time to travel" pages using the same data. https://championtraveler.com/best-time-to-travel/ My hope is this site will help travelers plan. This data is taken…
2017 · its alternatives →
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Learn how to become a digital nomad and find the best places to live and work remotely as a location independent remote worker. Explore places based on cost of living, internet speed, weather and other metrics. For startups that work remotely and remote workers.
2014 · nomadlist.io · its alternatives →
- 3UM
2016 · cole-maclean.github.io · its alternatives →
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See where people click so you can improve your page
2014 · bdow.com · its alternatives →
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Transplant.to▲202An interactive website showing where people are moving & why
2020 · its alternatives →
- 6WM
We're a small team of 3 engineers, and wanted to make a better way to look for for properties online. Traditional portals (esp. outside of US) are just a bit rubbish for doing anything other than basic searching. So we've: - Created a crawler that reads through estate agents websites to find homes for sale - Parses that through a series of LLMs and other models to understand each home in depth (e.g. floor type, location, total sqft) - Parses every photo through an embeddings vector space so that people can search for whatever they want. Check it out: https://jitty.com Currently…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Visualize Google location history data on a heatmap 🗺️
2018 · locationhistoryvisualizer.com · its alternatives →
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- 10WD
Hi guys, wanted to show my (few) weekends project: http://wherehop.com A free app for you to basically see the best neighbourhoods to live in in many cities around the world. It uses data pulled from various sources to rank the best areas to live. Let me know your thoughts and how it can be improved.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Work Onward▲81A map-based hiring platform for small businesses and locals
2023 · workonward.com · its alternatives →
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Visualizing your collected Google Location History data
2014 · theopolis.me · its alternatives →
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Locator▲35Turn blogs, TikToks and more into a map of places to visit
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I came up with this idea when I was looking to move to London with a friend. I quickly learned how frustrating it is to trial-and-error housing options for days on end, just to be denied after days of searching due to some grotesque counteroffer. To add to this, finding properties that meet the budgets, commuting preferences and work locations of everyone in a group is a Sisyphean task - it often ends in failure, with somebody exceeding their original budget or somebody dropping out. To solve this I built a tool (https://closemove.com/) that: - lets you enter between 1-6…
2025 · closemove.com · its alternatives →
- 17GI
Visualize your collected Google Location History data using an interactive heatmap directly in your browser.
2014 · theopolisme.github.io · its alternatives →
- 18IB
I love culture + travel, and one of my favorite pastimes is dropping into random streets on Google Street View. I just LOVE getting a tiny snippet into how people live, the architecture, and discovering hidden corners of places I'll probably never visit. I'm kinda weird like that. When AI came along, I started asking it to explain what I was looking at - and I learned a ton. I couldn't stop using this combo. So I built Streetwhip. It's kinda like reverse Geoguessr - instead of guessing where you are, you get educated about places as if you had a smart local guide with you. What used to be…
2025 · streetwhip.com · its alternatives →
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I've been building a bunch of US geography tools/games/visualizations and thought folks on HN might like this one. There are also drive-time and bike-time tools available on the same page. For folks interested, all of the data comes from OpenStreetMap and the US Census at the moment - OSM for routing and points interest and the US Census for population data. Anonymous users can use it 5x/day. I put up a waitlist page to gauge interest in a paid version but there's no way for the public to make an account - feel free to bypass the limits in an incognito tab. The site is US-only…
Jul 2026 · blockatlas.com · its alternatives →
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Backstory: Few years back, I used a shared spreadsheet (GSheets) to organize my property hunt, and found it quite frustrating to keep on top of things just on the productivity side alone. Felt that there should be a better way to do this, and that's when I started creating a webapp, with features that can make this journey feel less stressful. This is a solo dev project. Have a look at the demo, and let me know your thoughts! Cheers
2025 · dash.collabnest.app · its alternatives →
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Learn how to become a digital nomad and find the best places to live and work remotely as a location independent remote worker. Explore places based on cost of living, internet speed, weather and other metrics. For startups that work remotely and remote workers.
2016 · placestowork.co · its alternatives →
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We posted a couple of months ago and you all seemed to like what we're putting together. Since then we've added a lot! -Editorial articles -Explore cities by filter -Saved & Grouped comparisons -Many more data points and higher quality data
Mar 2026 · whythere.life · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I love scrolling through Zillow and spend way too much time thinking a property is gonna be my next home just to find a couple of days of research later what’s the catch. I built this property analyzer to get a quick overview of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” (love spaghetti westerns) for the property. In ~30-45s you get a pretty comprehensive analysis of the history, risks, and everything else about the property, on top of a short AI-generated podcast going over the details. Users can also comment on properties (a feature I always wish I had on Zillow) and guess the final sale…
2025 · trymasterkey.com · its alternatives →
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