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by daversa 6mo ago
Thanks, these are all good suggestions and thoughts! We do have a switch for Celsius already by the monthly temp graph. This will switch everything in the comparison table to metric first too.
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by daversa 6mo ago
Right now you can save a comparison, but we definitely plan to add "favorite" cities down the line, potentially as part of a paid account. We also want to develop the relocation aspect of the site more. You can see a rough outline
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by daversa 6mo ago
I should mention, this is just my side project. If anyone is hiring for Senior/Lead/Staff Designer positions, I'm looking for work!
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by daversa 6mo ago
There's a sources link below the comparison table that will give you all of that detail. Admittedly the U.S. has much better coverage right now, but we're always working to improve internationally.
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by daversa 6mo ago
We would like to add more community focused elements but that introduces a massive layer of moderation whereas the current model is intended to "just show the data" and let people decide what it means to them. We are playing aroun
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by daversa 6mo ago
We were getting slammed pretty hard and some of our db sources had to resort to fallbacks. If you visit the city page individually, this should update for you https://whythere.life/city/munich-upper-bavaria-germany
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by daversa 6mo ago
Thanks!
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by daversa 6mo ago
Totally agree, we had that and I think it may have been stomped on by making the city titles clickable through to the city pages. Thanks for the heads-up!
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by daversa 6mo ago
I think we're back (fingers crossed).
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by daversa 6mo ago
Looks like we're getting the hug of death! We're trying to rectify things on our end.
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Show HN: WhyThere.life – Compare cities side-by-side to decide where to move(whythere.life)
18 points by daversa 6mo ago|18 comments
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by daversa 8mo ago
We just added average home and rent cost for the U.S.—looking into international options.
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by daversa 8mo ago
You’re not wrong at all. Automated discovery breaks down fast in big global cities because raw tags don’t capture “iconic” very well. I actually just pushed an update that heavily retunes the scoring, boosting national and royal parks and p
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by daversa 8mo ago
Good idea, I'll look into that!
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by daversa 8mo ago
Thank you, I think we have the search fixed, but yeah only having Parks show is not ideal and wasn't the intent. We're just dealing with a hodge-podge of API's with rate limits and several layers of caching trying to make thi
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by daversa 8mo ago
Following up on this! Instead of just patching the empty state, we built out a proper 'Local Nature' integration using OpenStreetMap. International cities now have their own dedicated row showing real local reserves and parks (e.g
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by daversa 8mo ago
Great catch! It turns out there is a tiny village in Gloucestershire also named Cambridge (pop. 394) that was trying to steal the spotlight from the University town. Because they were both labeled as 'Cambridge, England,' our syst
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by daversa 8mo ago
Done
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by daversa 8mo ago
100%, we want to add that but the data is expensive. If this has legs we will probably spring for Zillow or Redfin API access. We actually hit a rate limit with the image API tonight, but we're caching everything we pull into a DB, so
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by daversa 8mo ago
We want to add home prices and rent, but that is really expensive data unfortunately. If this has legs, we may be able to justify paying for the Zillow API or something similar. We do plan on adding affiliate links to realtors in that city,
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by daversa 8mo ago
Great point, we'll add a toggle.
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by daversa 8mo ago
This is an early Alpha and we actually were considering locking it down to the US initially but I think it's important to get out there early and expose problems like this. All valid points.
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by daversa 8mo ago
Haha yeah, that needs some refinement! Ultimately it's a restriction of the API's we're using now. "Would I feel happier? What are the cultural differences? What is the food like? What sort of social groups thrive in the
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Show HN: WhyThere – Compare cities side-by-side to decide where to move(whythere.life)
14 points by daversa 8mo ago|22 comments
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by daversa 15y ago
It's the ol' designer with a 27" cinema display problem.