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Very popular term in gaming

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Yup! Definitely something I've been thinking about

Working on my website that can heatmap cities based on your lifestyle preferences.

https://theretowhere.com

It currently supports complex heatmaps based on travel time (e.g. close to work + close to friends + far from police precincts), and has a browser extension to display your heatmap over popular listing sites like Zillow.

I'm thinking of making it into an API to allow websites to integrate with it directly.

I was in Korea during the Kakao fire incident and thought it was astounding that they had no failovers. However, I thought it'd be a wake up call!

I guess not.

Still working on https://theretowhere.com, which is a website that makes it easier to find apartments and hotels/airbnbs close to people and activities you care about.

The past couple months have been fun since I've implemented a lot of new highly-requested features into the site's city heatmapping capabilities. One thing I've found motivating is having my own private changelog that shows screenshots of feature requests people have given me, and then dates for when I finally finished those features.

It's easy to forget how much stuff you've built in a month or two, sometimes.

I have a user script that just hides the LinkedIn feed. It's quite blissful.

You don't have to add them in manually - the heatmap interface supports "Open searches", where you can add in pins for a bunch of locations at a time based on a query (like "bakeries").

Currently thinking about better ways to spread the word about https://theretowhere.com (my website that makes it easier to find apartments and Airbnbs/hotels close to things you care about).

I've actually started getting some back and fourth feedback with a couple users, which has kept me motivated and validated. But I need more organic traffic somehow. I've recently released a new usecase (https://theretowhere.com/vacation) that might be more well suited for vacationers, so let's see if that sticks.

Funny anecdote from today - I just set up Slack notifications so I get more instant knowledge of errors on the platform, and the first notification came in just a couple moments after I deployed. It was for an error that I thought noone would run into for a couple days. Imagine my (bad) luck!

That's fair.

You can probably hack that experience by making use of the "rules" feature. You can have certain search engines or macros launch automatically upon pressing enter based on the content of the query. You if you set a rule to check if your search contains a vowel (which most will), it's effectively a catch all rule.

Hacky, but it will work.

I built a portal that makes it easier to query against multiple different search engines (https://allsear.ch/). It's open source, free, all that. I must say, building it really expanded my view of the internet.

I am also a heavy Kagi and Reddit user for search, and usually that's enough. But when it's not, its concerning how much better other search engines can be, especially since non-tech savvy folks will never use them.

Still working on https://theretowhere.com since I announced it to HN in February.

It's an website who's goal is to make it easier to find apartments/hotels/etc that fit your housing preferences (starting with places that are close to the people and things you care about). It's flagship feature is the ability to make heatmaps of cities based on your preferences.

Since February I've slowed down on feature development temporarily as I try and find a way to sustainably increase it's popularity and learn what's the most important thing to focus on next.

This is super cool - I definitely have a lot to learn from this. I can probably use this for my project theretowhere.com

Kudos!

I missed this comment!

Central Park OR Prospect Park OR Brooklyn Bridge Park OR Fort Greene Park

You can do this, actually. I kinda explain that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976053

The heatmap supports both AND and OR clauses

The second one (acrage, stars, etc) is harder, you're right.

The "Search nearby places" is really meant to be a convenience feature to fill your OR clauses. It works better for certain types of things. Like, sure, all parks is too broad because not all parks are equal. But use it for something like all Targets (the shopping chain) or something, and its more useful, since those are, more or less, all equal.

I'm still thinking of other convenience features for places that have more nuance, like parks.

Noted, thanks!

If I put the same thing in two different criteria (with different settings), it says the heatmap parameters are invalid.

That's odd, since the website does not differentiate places by coordinates. I think you might have been missing something else (like you clicked a "new place" button and didn't fill out that place, maybe)

That's fair!

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978067

Ah, you probably tried to search before the website got your location (so it couldn't bias your search).

I'll make this an impossible state, thanks for bringing this up.

This is possible!

I should probably make the UX better. When you're on the heatmap page (or the distance matrix page), look at the top right of the screen. It shows you where it's basing its searches on, and you can override that bias with any location you like.

You only need to update it once per session - all pages and components will be updated

Hello!

To echo what loxias said, it is possible to make queries like this on the heatmap. You can use the "Search Nearby places" button - this takes in more general queries (like cafe, gym, walmart, etc) and gives you back a bunch of venues that fit that search.

It can! I can overlay with Zillow, Apartments.com and Streeteasy

https://theretowhere.com/we-got-an-extension-babyyyy

Yeah, different geo analysis providers have different weightings for travel time (turns, street density, etc). It can sometimes lead to inconsistencies like this, especially if they don't use GPS and proprietary data to correct things...

The "grocery store" problem is something I've been thinking about for a while, since it has two problems:

- There are tons of grocery stores (efficiency of processing all of those)

- Not all grocery stores are the same (supermarkets vs pricey luxury stores vs bodegas)

I've been thinking of mass processing one-time then allowing the user to super-impose pre-made heatmaps onto thier existing heatmap.

I have a v2 of that algorithm coming this weekend! I expect it to make it MUCH faster :)

That actually is possible

Heatmaps are split into criteria, and each of those criteria can contain multiple places.

The criteria are OR clauses between any of the places, and the heatmap is an AND clause over all the criteria

So to do what you'd like, you'd place the libraries in the same criteria

Hey, that's my former professor! Hi Shriram!

Thanks for responding!

What you're saying is correct. Obviously you should stand out. Of course recruiters shouldn't move on with or make initial contact with folks that aren't good candidate.

That's not really what I'm working against though.

If someone applies to a role via a portal or something and the company doesn't respond, that's not ghosting (or, rather, that's not the ghosting I'm talking about). Maybe I should make that clear in the original post - I'll do that. This is more tackling the case where there's been some communication between you and the recruiter, and then they just drop it. That's the rude case I'm focusing on.

In both the recruiter case and the dating case, the recruiter is perfectly in the right to want to move on at any point. But a quick 5 work message or email vs ghosting makes a big difference for the recipient, I'd think. Even outside of being less rude, it makes things easier because you know which doors are actually still open or not.

For the record, I already do what you're saying, and it is good advice in general. I have dozens of calls with people inside companies I'm looking to work at and look for internal roles. How well that works though depends on a number of things even outside of how qualified you are.

For companies like Airbnb, their frontline support often sucks.

However, a bit of sleuthing and you can sometimes find secret unadvertised support phone numbers they have that give premium support.

I found such a number for Airbnb (I don't remember what it was though, sorry) and they refunded me a $1.5k refund the frontline support refused to give me. And they did it on the spot.

I surmise these hidden support lines are for premium customers they actually care about.

Note to folks who are migrating away from LastPass now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33810084

Restoration of the 2fa codes onto a new device doesn't seem to require communication with the original device, so I don't think there's client-side encryption going on.

The Authenticator also has password vaulting features, but I agree that would be a bad idea for both your 2fa codes and your passwords to be in the same place (even worse if you use Outlook!)

you lose access to your email/bank/github/etc. accounts protected by 2FA

I wonder if apps like Microsoft Authenticator are better for this. They sync 2fa codes to your Microsoft account. Naturally, the question becomes "Doesn't that make Microsoft a single point of failure? If someone know's your Microsoft password, they can get into your Authenticator and all your other accounts basically don't have 2FA anymore"

From what I can tell it doesn't look like Microsoft has an answer to this, unless there's something obvious I'm missing. On the bright side, though, if you lose your phone, your 2FA codes aren't lost.

Choices, choices.

Came here to say this. I switched to RSS about year ago and it's given me much more control over my aggregation. Unfortunately, some websites don't have RSS anymore, but I still find the switch worth it.

Some tools (like Kill the Newsletter) also turn newsletters into RSS feeds so you can add them to your aggregation, with the added benefit of them not actually having your email.