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
27.09.2025 12:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
24.09.2025 01:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
01.09.2025 20:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I had a dev session recently adding testimonies to my product homepage. It was quite affirming ☺️ #indiedev #buildinpublic #indiehackers #buildingaloneishardlol
14.08.2025 00:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
12.08.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
05.08.2025 22:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
27.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
26.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
21.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Theretowhere has a blog! 🙀
The blog for Theretowhere - the powerful apartment, hotel and Airbnb hunting tool. Find apartment hunting and travel tips and facts here.
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
19.07.2025 12:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
17.07.2025 00:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Theretowhere has a blog! 🙀
The blog for Theretowhere - the powerful apartment hunting tool. Find apartment hunting tips and facts here.
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
16.07.2025 01:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
15.07.2025 22:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There to Where
Theretowhere helps you find apartments, homes and hotels that are close to people and things you care about.
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
14.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
15.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Theretowhere has a blog! 🙀
The blog for Theretowhere - the powerful apartment hunting tool. Find apartment hunting tips and facts here.
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
15.06.2025 02:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
16.02.2025 02:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There to Where
Making moving easy.
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
13.02.2025 06:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There to Where
Making moving easy.
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.
13.02.2025 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you've come to my profile because I mentioned theretowhere to you - hiiiii 👋🏾
Let me know what you think of it! 😊
13.02.2025 06:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just changed my settings! Send me a DM :)
10.02.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
10.02.2025 06:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There to Where
Making moving easy.
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!
09.02.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There to Where
Making moving easy.
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.
08.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?
08.02.2025 05:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My project just reached top 5 on hackernews 😳
theretowhere.com
This is pretty dope :3
07.02.2025 20:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
