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24 alternatives to Rental data supplied by tenants in Ireland, searchable by all

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.

HowMuchRent is a searchable database of rental prices in Ireland, built on data submitted by tenants themselves. The site allows renters to contribute information about their rents and browse what others are paying… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rental data supplied by tenants in Ireland, searchable by all launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Submit their rent, and can see what other renters are paying

    2023 · howmuchrent.com · its alternatives →

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    historically, rentals in NYC have been pretty wild. the median 1BR in West Village as of July 2025 cost $5,750/month. about a month ago, NYC passed a law to ban broker fees which many predicted would have increased rents. I realized I had access to some original data from a previous project so I built a dashboard to help me visualize the changes and see for myself. you can filter by neighborhoods, bedrooms, original source where the rentals were posted, and select a timeframe. this is still a work in progress, so apologies in advance for any issues you encounter. I would love any…

    2025 · leaseswap.nyc · its alternatives →

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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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    Connect with outgoing tenants instead of brokers.

    2016 · lighthouse.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built Own or Rent (https://ownorent.com) after getting frustrated with existing rent vs. buy calculators that hide assumptions and use confusing jargon. What's different: - 100% transparent calculations - no hidden fees or confusing math - Results in under 5 minutes without lengthy forms - Public REST API for developers building financial apps or LLM integrations - Clear breakdown of mortgage payments, taxes, maintenance, and opportunity costs The API is particularly useful for chatbots, financial advisory platforms, or any app that needs reliable rent vs. buy…

    2025 · ownorent.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time property, rental and real estate market data

    2021 · rentcast.io · 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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    Naborly▲84

    Lets landlords screen tenants automagically.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Portfolio analytics for landlords who think like investors

    Dec 2025 · rentspan.io · its alternatives →

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    Rent almost anything TO and FROM other people

    2015 · rentbillow.com · its alternatives →

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    Discovering Tomorrows Startups One Test At A Time

    2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Review landlords, properties & areas, anonymously.

    2025 · 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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    Stress-test the Swiss rent vs. buy decision with real math

    Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Yupa▲9

    Chat about a property or area before you buy

    Jun 2026 · yupa.ai · its alternatives →

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    The minimalist dashboard for independent landlords.

    Mar 2026 · landload-hq.vercel.app · 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 →

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    Your fastest path to debt freedom — free, instant, no signup

    Jul 2026 · rentorbuyhq.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 →

  24. 24PA

    Make confident home offers with actual sale data. See how much homes sell over asking price in any zip code. Access detailed market reports and compare recent sales.

    2017 · pillr.io · its alternatives →

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