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Ask HN: How can I make PadMapper.com better?

2 points by PaddyTheMapper ↗ HN
Hi everyone. Ever since a miserable experience trying to find a place to live in Manhattan a couple of months ago, I've been working on and off on something to help people find a place to live. It's similar to housingmaps, but it fixes some of the issues I had with it when apartment hunting. I was hoping to get some feedback as to what I could do to make it better. I've got a lot more that I plan to do, but I was hoping to figure out if there were any current usability/discoverability/performance issues.

A couple of the harder to discover features:

-Currently, in New York and San Francisco, if you zoom in far enough, you can see points of interest from Yelp (anything rated 4 stars and above).

-Also in NYC, you can filter by morning commute time to an address via subway. This can yield some surprising results.

Thanks very much, and I'm all ears. www.padmapper.com

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PaddyTheMapper
And, to get a comment on the board: Some of the features I'm planning on adding, once I figure out an unobtrusive and usable way to do them: a favorites list, neighborhood crime rate overlay, probably a more details page with a list of nearby businesses and some other things, and full text search filter on the listings. Driving commute time filter is also a possibility, but only after I expand the subway commute filter coverage to more cities.