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Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to ZipSage — Wise moves start here

See what your salary really buys in any US city

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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    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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    Know your potential profits before you buy a property

    2023 · propertizer.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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    City comparison tool to see how far your salary will go

    2017 · nerdwallet.com · its alternatives →

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    Cost of living calculator to plan your relocation

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Find Your Next City: The one that fits your life

    Jan 2026 · yournextcity.com · its alternatives →

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    Which cities are best for you?

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Know someone's zip code, find the average income in the area

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Show HN: I built a tool to calculate real tech salaries across cities (after tax & COL) As a software engineer obsessed with data-driven decisions, I wanted to quantify how much better/worse other cities would be compared to my current home in Berlin. While sites like Glassdoor and levels.fyi tell you how much you can earn, they don't show what you actually keep after taxes and living costs. So I built Tech City Index - a tool that compares cities based on actual purchasing power for software engineers, combining: * Real-time salary data from levels.fyi * Cost of living data from Numbeo…

    2025 · techcities.app · its alternatives →

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    Resume-based salary estimate from real-time market data

    2025 · payscope.ai · its alternatives →

  11. 11H1

    Excited to share my New Year’s project. For a long time, I’ve wanted to build H-1B data directly into Levels.fyi. Every time I went looking for this data elsewhere, it was a frustrating experience to use. Most H-1B sites felt antiquated, unintuitive, cluttered with ads, or just overwhelming to use. The data was there, but it wasn’t usable, and definitely not pleasant to explore. So out of that frustration, I decided to build the H-1B data experience I personally wanted to use. Right into Levels.fyi. https://levels.fyi/h1b/ Some other pages I'm excited about: Wage Heatmap:…

    Jan 2026 · 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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    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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    See your true take-home pay in 15+ global cities.

    Feb 2026 · moneytoolsglobal.com · its alternatives →

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    I trained a stacking ensemble model on recently sold data and it turned into my startup Property Deal Finder. Just enter a zip code or city and it will find properties for sale under market value!

    2025 · propertydealfinder.com · its alternatives →

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    Two roles. Who earns more? Real US salary data.

    May 2026 · salaryduel.com · its alternatives →

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    ZipTax▲5

    Calculate and compare your taxes across States in the US

    2024 · ziptax.org · its alternatives →

  18. 18PA

    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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    Pillr▲9

    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.

    2025 · trendyzip.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20SA

    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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    Every local business in any ZIP, scored for cold outreach

    Jul 2026 · ziplead.ai · its alternatives →

  22. 22MY
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    See every layer. Own your paycheck.

    Jun 2026 · salarypeel.com · its alternatives →

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    Figure out what rent you can actually afford.

    Feb 2026 · weleap.ai · its alternatives →

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