Very popular term in gaming

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/what-does-meta-mean-in-...

Thank you! (Starts down fresh rabbit-hole...)

Working on my website that can heatmap cities based on your lifestyle preferences.

https://theretowhere.com

It currently supports complex heatmaps based on travel time (e.g. close to work + close to friends + far from police precincts), and has a browser extension to display your heatmap over popular listing sites like Zillow.

I'm thinking of making it into an API to allow websites to integrate with it directly.

Absolutely stellar! I've been looking for something like this for ages. Any chance you'll have some pre- defined options like grocery stores, libraries, airport, etc?

Yup! Definitely something I've been thinking about

Living in hongkong for a few months, and absolutely love exploring the different neighborhoods. I’d love something like this or walkscore but for local guides to contribute.

I was in Korea during the Kakao fire incident and thought it was astounding that they had no failovers. However, I thought it'd be a wake up call!

I guess not.

Still working on https://theretowhere.com, which is a website that makes it easier to find apartments and hotels/airbnbs close to people and activities you care about.

The past couple months have been fun since I've implemented a lot of new highly-requested features into the site's city heatmapping capabilities. One thing I've found motivating is having my own private changelog that shows screenshots of feature requests people have given me, and then dates for when I finally finished those features.

It's easy to forget how much stuff you've built in a month or two, sometimes.

I have a user script that just hides the LinkedIn feed. It's quite blissful.

Currently thinking about better ways to spread the word about https://theretowhere.com (my website that makes it easier to find apartments and Airbnbs/hotels close to things you care about).

I've actually started getting some back and fourth feedback with a couple users, which has kept me motivated and validated. But I need more organic traffic somehow. I've recently released a new usecase (https://theretowhere.com/vacation) that might be more well suited for vacationers, so let's see if that sticks.

Funny anecdote from today - I just set up Slack notifications so I get more instant knowledge of errors on the platform, and the first notification came in just a couple moments after I deployed. It was for an error that I thought noone would run into for a couple days. Imagine my (bad) luck!

I'm starting to think about moving to a new city and was considering to build a tool like this. And now I'm excited to see this already exists!

For my use-case the interface you created isn't the best. Now that I'm searching for a new home I'm interested in finding a place that has a bakery nearby, but it doesn't really matter what bakery. The same goes for restaurants, pubs, ... For this case there are too many places to add them "manually".

Thanks for creating this, I will be definitely using this in the the coming months.

You don't have to add them in manually - the heatmap interface supports "Open searches", where you can add in pins for a bunch of locations at a time based on a query (like "bakeries").

Looks cool! One use case for travel is ppl like often like to be near public transport, especially places like Tokyo, NYC, etc.

Might be nice to have an easy way to enter all subway stations in a city and create the heatmap based on that.

I built a portal that makes it easier to query against multiple different search engines (https://allsear.ch/). It's open source, free, all that. I must say, building it really expanded my view of the internet.

I am also a heavy Kagi and Reddit user for search, and usually that's enough. But when it's not, its concerning how much better other search engines can be, especially since non-tech savvy folks will never use them.

using my default browser (brave) and pressing "enter" (doing a search) did not do anything. The page just sits there.

apparently, I need to make a selection of a search engine to use this.

I would not use this as a replacement for my duckduckgo or google searches simply because of the UX of not being able to type a query and press "enter" as the default.

That's fair.

You can probably hack that experience by making use of the "rules" feature. You can have certain search engines or macros launch automatically upon pressing enter based on the content of the query. You if you set a rule to check if your search contains a vowel (which most will), it's effectively a catch all rule.

Hacky, but it will work.

Still working on https://theretowhere.com since I announced it to HN in February.

It's an website who's goal is to make it easier to find apartments/hotels/etc that fit your housing preferences (starting with places that are close to the people and things you care about). It's flagship feature is the ability to make heatmaps of cities based on your preferences.

Since February I've slowed down on feature development temporarily as I try and find a way to sustainably increase it's popularity and learn what's the most important thing to focus on next.

This is super cool - I definitely have a lot to learn from this. I can probably use this for my project theretowhere.com

Kudos!

Noted, thanks!

> If I put the same thing in two different criteria (with different settings), it says the heatmap parameters are invalid.

That's odd, since the website does not differentiate places by coordinates. I think you might have been missing something else (like you clicked a "new place" button and didn't fill out that place, maybe)