Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Search Away – Housing search companion
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Search Away – Housing search companion launched in 2022; 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 →
- 2HH
Hi HN! A few days ago I saw a graph[0] that showed the # of job postings on HN was declining. I started wondering what other trends I could glean from the data, so I created this! You can filter through the top level comments by keyword; for example you can filter by "remote" to see the massive spike around March 2020. Another interesting thing I found is that I can compare hiring across cities. I hope you enjoy! I made it so that the links to your search are sharable so if you have some interesting data you should be able to just link the page you're on! [0]…
2023 · hnhiringtrends.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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Filter home search by natural light/yard size/commute/school
2019 · flyhomes.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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- 7WM
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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The largest zip code database at the lowest price.
2022 · everythingbyzipcode.com · its alternatives →
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Research any US neighborhood before you move — free
May 2026 · zipprofile.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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Median rent by city and ZIP, bedroom breakdowns, and trend data. No account, no paywall, no upsell. Covers all 50 states, 4,000+ cities down to the ZIP code level with a Leaflet map across 7,700+ ZIP markers. What data would be most useful to add here?
Mar 2026 · rentdatanow.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 →
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Get the best data for homes, areas, crime, schools and more.
2025 · propertyinsights.io · its alternatives →
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Free neighborhood data for any US ZIP, no signup needed
Jul 2026 · bluecrabmoving.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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Home values and rent trends across US ZIPs and UK postcodes
Jun 2026 · homesight.live · its alternatives →
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Get all the data like city, state, population, by zip code.
2025 · uszipcodes.org · its alternatives →
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Hi fellow job seekers! In a few hours this month's "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread will be posted. I've created a simple bookmarklet that removes jobs from the cities you are not interested in. You can find the bookmarklet & instructions here: https://github.com/janhancic/hnHiringFilter I hope somebody will find it helpful.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive UK house price heatmap with 30 years of data. Search any postcode to explore average prices, trends and transaction volumes from 1995 to 2026.
Jan 2026 · housepricedashboard.co.uk · its alternatives →
- 22WD
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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Fast, Accurate, Real Estate Data Search and Insights
2025 · marketmorse.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - Like many in tech, I've thought about relocating to different cities. But comparing salaries, income tax, housing costs, and overall cost of living is hard. It's hard to know where you'd actually save up more money. So I built a site to make it easier. It's my first HN project, hope you find it useful. Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!
2025 · takehomepay.city · its alternatives →
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