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24 alternatives to Reveal- Water Bills Bleeding Them Dry

The soaring costs of water in NYC in low-income areas

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reveal- Water Bills Bleeding Them Dry launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data▲70

   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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   Detroit Water Project▲130

   Connects donors to unpaid water bills

   2015 · detroitwaterproject.org · its alternatives →

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   Puddle▲93

   Borrow money easily and cheaply from your community.

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   Vox's The Weeds - Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters▲59

   The good and bad of gentrification + swing voting

   2015 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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   Dispatch Monitor▲61

   A framework for assessing the health of a water project

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Unprompt▲75

   Your AI usage in dollars and liters of water

   26d ago · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Seeking Wisdom: Why Millennials Need To Carry The Water▲60

   Lessons to help accelerate your learning.

   2016 · drift.com · its alternatives →

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   Exponent - Competing Against Non-Consumption▲63

   Apple's earnings and Twitter's troubles

   2016 · content.blubrry.com · its alternatives →

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   Subspotting▲65

   Visualizing available cell phone coverage on the NYC subway

   2016 · its alternatives →

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    Open Loans Project▲63

    An open data set for student loans.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    99% Invisible - The Magic Bureaucrat▲62

    How overgeneralized correlational data influenced US welfare

    2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Reveal - Do not drink: The water crisis in Flint, Michigan▲61

    How Flint, MI went from trusting tap water to fearing it

    2016 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →

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    Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything- New York After Rent▲1

    The AirBnb economy in New York

    2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Joinery.nyc▲119

    Connect with outgoing tenants instead of brokers.

    2016 · lighthouse.app · its alternatives →

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    Retail in Real-Time▲70

    Visualizing how the US spends its money

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Global Startup Movement: Making private capital markets efficient from Richmond, VA▲54

    Uncovering stories from entrepreneurs and VC's worldwide

    2017 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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    Stacks▲83

    Make it rain real money on your friends using Venmo

    2014 · rainstacks.com · its alternatives →

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    Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars▲65

    An urban transformation is underway

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    99% Invisible: Public Works: Rethinking America’s Transportation Infrastructure▲66

    Roads? Where we're going ... we need better roads!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    FREE: The Future of a radical Price▲77

    How businesses can profit more by giving things away.

    2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →

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    Billcrush▲55

    Simple tool for tracking and settling shared expenses.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    The Zero-Sum Society▲61

    Distribution and the possibilities for economic change

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Money Trail▲72

    Venmo analytics. See who your friends are paying.

    2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero to Scale - 55: Sales compensation and bartering▲53

    Setting up sales compensation and bartering for services

    2015 · zerotoscale.com · its alternatives →

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