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Finding apartment #housing #search

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:46:00 +0000

In an discussion regarding finding apartment, User haswell on HN says:

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.
Conclusion: it hasn't changed much at all.

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".

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.

With all of the modernization and streamlining that has happened in other parts of our lives, apartment hunting remains unstructured, messy, frustrating, stressful.

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.

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?

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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.

Are you facing issues with apartment search and/or solving for that?

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Search and organize saved reddit posts/comments #reddit #search

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:16:00 +0000

Hi,

So I have been using reddit for 5 years now and I keep saving interesting links/discussions that I want to come back at a later time.

Reddit limits saved posts/comments to 1000 and there is no easy way to search for that specific topic you remember you saved 2 months ago.

3 points posted by th3owner

Control+F for life #search #lifestyle

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:02:00 +0000

We spend so much time on searching for stuff in our real-life that, we have got used to the criminal waste of time it is.

It is 2020, there must be a better way to search for things in real-life right? Or at-least help to place things better, so that we can find them easily when needed.

I'm sure this a problem faced by everyone, I challenge the brilliant minds to come up with a solution for this.

5 points posted by Jacqueline Holt

Hard for small companies to rank on search #search #seo

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:22:00 +0000

It is difficult for small or new companies and independent content creators to rank on search even though their content may be truly good. It means small business lose a lot of potential revenue and exposure every year simply because they can't compete with a company that has the budget to have better SEO strategy. Existing search engines prioritize long time players because of the trust of their content, not necessarily quality content compared to a newcomer.
4 points posted by Grimm1

Finding correct package efficiently in a bag #package #search

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 05:42:00 +0000

I am an Amazon delivery person in India. We deliver packages here in motorcycle from a large carry/backpack bag. The packages are not-arranged in any order and has to be taken out randomly at the customer location.

Each time when I visit a customer location, I have to keep the bag on ground and search for the particular package among dozen other packages. Sometimes, when lucky the required package is at the top but most of the time I have to take out all other packages one by one till I get package I need risking loosing other packages.

I was hoping someone can solve this problem of finding correct package from a bag of random packages, to make the life of the amazon and other delivery personnel easier.

3 points posted by Suresh Kumar

Search existing library in address bar #search #browser

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:15:00 +0000

Many of us maintain our own library of content through several read-it-later apps like Pocket, Evernote, Instapaper etc. but forget what we saved, but we saved the content for a reason and would be great if we could retrieve the content when we need especially when searching in the browser.

Right now browsers display the content from our bookmarks, history when we start typing on the address bar. It would be even better if the browsers could also display content from our read-it-later library as we type on the browser address bar; It would save us lot of time by giving the content we already saved for a reason before instead of searching anew.

2 points posted by Purohit Jaikumar

Search Engine for Products powered by Reddit #search #reddit

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:51:00 +0000

These days the search results from google are full of low quality affiliate marketing blogs. On the other hand, the products recommended on Reddit are generally good. Someone should create a search engine for products recommended on Reddit.

Karma alone cannot be used to determine if a particular product is good. For example, Nexus 5x is one of the most mentioned smartphone on r/Android but its mostly all about of bootloop complains. So sentiment analysis is needed to find whether the post/comment about the product is positive or not.

Another challenge is extracting the product name from the comments. For example, on r/PCMasterRace most people wont link to individual products but would just mention the products.

What do you guys think?

2 points posted by vipul

Outsource common searches to someone #search #outsource

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:31:00 +0000

When I want to find out more about something - could be an illness, a new topic I found interesting (AI/ML), or just new travel ideas, I spend hours searching online, reading reviews, blogs, forums, etc. and then creating a mental conclusion about what I found. In the process, I bookmark pages for later review and make notes if necessary.

Can I out-source this work to someone to kind-of, summarise the findings and give me a balanced view, highlight the most relevant links for me to look at and basically cut-down a lot of the initial time I spend on searching things?

1 points posted by xtraxor

Search Engine Wall of Shame #search #submission

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:52:00 +0000

A while back, I started writing down the search queries for bad search results from different search engines to publish one day a 'Search Engine Wall of Shame'.

But this needs to be public effort to create any meaningful action from search engines. How many of you would be willing to contribute to such platform by submitting your bad search results?

Some examples, Format: [Search Engine],[Search query],[Expected Result],[Actual Top Result],[URL] , [Alternate better result search engine]

Google, "Port Chrome extension to Firefox", Official document from Mozilla, 3rd party blog, [https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Port+Chrome+extension+to+Firefox] , DDG (First result from Mozilla).
DDG, "have i been pwned credit card number", Does HIBP include credit card details, Irrelevant news article, [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=have+i+been+pwned+credit+card+number] , Google (Shows discussion on topic from actual creator as 2nd result)

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian