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Life & fun · February 7, 2025

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…

A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences launched on February 7, 2025 with 321 votes, #99 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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In plain words

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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From the sources

A bunch of new features! Theretowhere can now supercharge your travel by making heatmaps of cities based on just travel itineraries. It can also provide even more detailed travel time breakdowns for any part of a heatmap.

Theretowhere helps you find apartments, homes and hotels that are close to people and things you care about.

Welcome to Theretowhere. This is an awesome website that makes it easier to find apartments and hotels close to things you care about. You need Javascript to run this, so please enable it! In the meantime, you can visit our blogfrom theretowhere.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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