A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
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…
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This website creates heatmaps of cities based on a user's housing preferences, showing travel times to locations and people that matter to them. It helps apartment hunters evaluate neighborhoods and listings by visualizing distances to work, shops, parks, and other priorities, accounting for actual travel times rather than straight-line distance. The tool addresses the complexity of assessing multiple locations simultaneously when searching for a new home.
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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 major park. Given that public transportation networks can sometimes make close things hard to get to and far things easy to get to, it's not always obvious whether a neighborhood actually even fits my criteria or not! The overarching goal of theretowhere.com is to allow you to make more informed moving decisions while also making things more convenient than they are today. https://ibb.co/pBsX2HjN It can generate detailed travel time breakdowns for individual listings and addresses, making it easier to determine whether a listing is worth applying for without juggling Google Maps tabs. This is great for questions like “How far is this apartment from my friends, work and dancing gyms?” https://ibb.co/mVBjwPrJ It also has the powerful ability to heatmap a city based on which parts of it are close or not to the people and places you care about. This is great for questions like “Where in the city would I be reasonably close to work, friends and a woodworking studio?” https://ibb.co/vCynPSRK You can add these heatmaps to sites like Zillow and Streeteasy to make things super convenient (this was very fun to make). The main thing that's on my mind is whether this is useful or not. Like, is this something you would actually use? I also have other ideas I'd like to eventually intergrate into this (crime heatmaps, noise heatmaps, etc)
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