http://needgap.com Find your customers by the problem you are solving for them. Sat, 22 Jul 2023 23:58:00 +0000 <div>In an discussion regarding finding apartment, User haswell on HN <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969270">says</a>:</div><div><br></div><blockquote><div><span class="commtext c00">I'm in the middle of an apartment search. I was reflecting the other day on how much searching for an apartment has changed over the last 10 years.<p>Conclusion: it hasn't changed much at all.</p> <p>It's still necessary to search on a myriad of sites. Most of the time, by the time you inquire, a place is gone. Or the ad was misleading and that "$2000 2BR" is actually "$2000 for the cheapest Studio we have, but we also have 2BR for $3.5K".</p> <p>Finding places that match my criteria still requires careful inspection of the description. Checking a filter box for "Parking" excludes places that only mention parking in the description.</p> <p>With all of the modernization and streamlining that has happened in other parts of our lives, apartment hunting remains unstructured, messy, frustrating, stressful.</p> <p>Aggregators like Padmapper helped for awhile, but these days, it seems like most listings are posted by scammy middlemen just trying to make a commission on the listing, and now the site actively makes the process even harder.</p> <p>Is hunting for an apartment doomed to be this messy forever? It seems like an area that is ripe for disruption or a better option, but what would it take to actually solve this?</p> <p>---</p> <p>With all of that said, this post is exactly what I needed right now. I've been toying with a very similar idea to improve the efficiency of my search process and this is good inspiration. </p></div></blockquote><div>Are you facing issues with apartment search and/or solving for that?<br></div> 3 points posted by Abishek Muthian /problems/381-finding-apartment-housing-search 381 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:46:00 +0000