Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hidden Housing
You can afford a house. Somewhere.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hidden Housing launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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…
2025 · theretowhere.com · its alternatives →
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Explore social, housing, and economic data across the U.S.
2018 · betterknowyourarea.com · its alternatives →
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I created https://www.howmuchrent.com last Friday to help bring this kind of transparency to Ireland, allowing people to submit their rents. Would love to get any HN feedback on the idea/website.
2023 · howmuchrent.com · its alternatives →
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The new way to find your perfect home
2020 · smartscore.searchsmartly.co · its alternatives →
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RentCast▲75Real-time property, rental and real estate market data
2021 · rentcast.io · its alternatives →
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HomeFlow▲68Make home buying easy with a self-paced home buying platform
2020 · tryhomeflow.com · its alternatives →
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A framework for deciding when/where/how to buy a home
2020 · flyhomes.com · its alternatives →
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Determine how much house you can really afford
2016 · nerdwallet.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built AffordWhere to answer a question I kept running into: “If I earn X, where can I actually afford to live comfortably?” The site lets you compare cities based on income, rent, taxes, and day-to-day costs, and see how far a salary realistically goes in each place. It’s intentionally simple: Focused on affordability rather than averages Designed for relocation and remote-work decisions No account required I’d appreciate feedback on: Whether the affordability framing is useful Missing cost factors you’d expect Data accuracy or methodology concerns Link:…
Jan 2026 · affordwhere.com · its alternatives →
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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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Filter home search by natural light/yard size/commute/school
2019 · flyhomes.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · splittable.co · its alternatives →
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2015 · spendtree.com · its alternatives →
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Fast, Accurate, Real Estate Data Search and Insights
2025 · marketmorse.com · its alternatives →
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Search homes by true cost, not just list price
Jun 2026 · quollhomes.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, excited to share a side project I’ve been working on for the past few months. This started after getting frustrated trying to figure out where to live. I wanted an easy way to see how an area was changing. Are schools improving or getting worse? Is housing inventory increasing or decreasing? How does this compare to historic levels? Search Away brings together housing, income, school, census and crime data for over 33,000 zip codes and 87,000 schools. Housing data is updated monthly. All other information is updated when more recent data is published (every few months). Hope this…
2022 · searchaway.co · its alternatives →
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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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Delivering the latest property headlines without the BS.
2019 · its alternatives →
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