Pay for good tools, people.
I've been using some startup tools for social media, email, etc, and my goodness they're great. Those people have spent years working on that problem, you haven't - just pay up and benefit from their time. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
I love buying new domains. I tend to keep them forever, even if a project is dead or no longer havily used. I own about 8 so far - more to come in the future lool #indiehackers #buildinpublic #domains
Big win for the accuracy of travel time heatmaps in theretowhere.com - they can now be aware of the time of day you want to take trips. Makes a big difference! Here's an example of a 20 minute car ride map in SF starting at chase center. #indiehackers #buildinpublic
I had a dev session recently adding testimonies to my product homepage. It was quite affirming ☺️ #indiedev #buildinpublic #indiehackers #buildingaloneishardlol
Most mapping apps cannot combine bikes with public transportation. Today, theretowhere.com can! Transit + bike is fully supported in city heatmaps and in directions. This was highly requested - give it a whirl! #buildinpublic #indiehackers #cycling #biking
Looking for apartments or Airbnbs close to work but far from sirens (ie ambulances, etc)? theretowhere.com now supports searches like this! Here's an example showing parts of NYC close to WeWorks but far from hospitals. #indiehackers #apartmenthunting #nyc #buildinpublic
Great testimonial I got from a user (over discord)
Just going to paste it in word for word
"wow this is unreal and DIRECTLY solves a pain point I've had for years (which is not true of 99.9% of software I see)"
Made by day ☺️
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
Second ProductHunt launch incoming 👀 :
www.producthunt.com/products/the...
#buildinpublic #indiehackers #producthunt
New feature (highly requested 😂 )! Heatmaps now provide detailed travel time breakdowns without having to leave the page! Check it out in some of our template heatmaps (also mobile friendly) theretowhere.com/heatmap/temp...
#indiehackers #buildinpublic #travel #apartments #apartmenthunting
In some weeks I'm going spin up a paid plan for Theretowhere so I can offer features that are uneconomical to offer for free. Wondering what I should name it. I don't want "Pro" - boring. Maybe Prime? Or something thematic, like Explorer? Any ideas?
#buildinpublic #indiehackers #showerthoughts
I always say its possible (but not easy) to find good apartments in NYC without insultingly high rent. Informal rent agreements one secret! And avoiding "hip" areas. Want to write about this in theretowhere.com/blog - anyone have secrets to share?
#apartments #apartmenthunting #nyc #buildinpublic
Has anyone else realized that there doesn't seem to be an existing API that can give you crime data when given a coordinate? Like, it doesn't even need to be super accurate - county wide or precinct wide statistics would be enough. Interesting.
#buildinpubic #indiehackers #apis #indiedev
If anyone would like to be a guest writer for theretowhere's blog (travel tips, apartment hunting tips, etc), let me know! Would love to get other people's writing up in there. theretowhere.com/blog
#travel #buildinpublic #apartmenthunting #lifehacks
New feature! Paste in your 🏝️ travel itinerary 🏝️ and get a heatmap of the best places to book hotels and airbnbs in matter of seconds! Overlay these heatmaps onto sites like Airbnb and Expedia.
theretowhere.com/vacation <-- this is an exciting direction! Try it out
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
Glanced at my user session analytics for the first time in a few weeks and found a good amount of UX fixes I could make for theretowhere.com. I should never have stopped looking at them! Keep paying close attention to your user journeys - you'll always learn from them. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
Ah, that's a great point. Maybe something like a thing that says "Don't need this now? Enter a date and we'll send you an email reminder to check is out when you're ready!"
I can imagine that being a big plus.
Starting a blog to spread apartment hunting tips, city comparisons, moving tips, etc.
theretowhere.com/blog
Anything you would want to see written about?
Guest writers accepted! You'll get full credit.
#buildinpublic #startup #indiehackers #blogging #blogs
Heya!
I haven't documented the stack anywhere since its not currently an open source project.
Shoot me a DM and let's chat - maybe I can give you some advice that may or may not involve how theretowhere works.
I've been there - all the best! I've been working on a tool called theretowhere.com that might make things easier for ya; give it a gander!
It can heatmap your city based on what and who you want to be close to, and can also show you how far any listing is from multiple things all at once too
If you're considering moving to a new place you're not super familiar with, my website theretowhere.com could be a great tool for ya.
It can make heatmaps of cities based on what and who you want to be close to, and can also show you how far any apartment is from all the stuff you care about.
If you've come to my profile because I mentioned theretowhere to you - hiiiii 👋🏾
Let me know what you think of it! 😊
Just changed my settings! Send me a DM :)
Nice! ✨ Share a picture if you can! (Your heatmap is automatically saved so you don't have to make a new one)
And yes, I changed the autocomplete. The last one was WAY to expensive, given the usage I have now. I'm still experimenting, though - expect more changes in the medium term!
Took theretowhere.com down for the night - hackernews traffic was waaaay too expensive - got to over $400 in like 24 hours. 🫠
Made some changes that will make the site way more cost effective - hopefully users won't notice much of a difference.
Lots more improvements planned!
Some numbers from theretowhere.com usage after yesterday (and today) (a bit inaccurate since billing dashboards lag a lot):
~60K sessions
~27k cloud function calls
~100k calls to my autocomplete API
~100k operations on my heatmapping services
Will cost about $200 - would be 2x w/o free tiers.
It wasn't really suffering from the NH hug of death, so its probably a design tolerance thing.
Though, from your example, I wouldn't expect a crash - it usually takes more than that.
Luckily, I switched to a different generation algorithm 2 hours ago. Maybe give it another try and report back?
My project just reached top 5 on hackernews 😳
theretowhere.com
This is pretty dope :3
