PadMapper (YC S10) is Joining Zumper
blog.padmapper.com
blog.padmapper.com
Sad to see that Zumper isn't open to those outside the USA, hopefully that will change. I showed PadMapper to a number of friends and they loved it. Let us take advantage of this new platform too!
I don't know if they'll bring their platform to Canada as well, we'll see.
Just finished reading you OIJ post! One of the best ones i've read. Thanks for sharing all that info.
congrats again! Ill check out Zumper as i was not familiar with them...
enter my apartment budget and my work location and propose apartments and tell me the commute cost from the available places.
i.e. I want to pay $3K per month but I work at ADDRESS-X - so $3K apartments from that ADDRESS will also cost me $X in commute/gas/tolls ++ X hours of my time.
It sounds like you guys found a good home! Keep at it!
Nicely done and congrats on the acquisition.
One thing to note, though, is that when we ban them, they get hellbanned, so that it looks to them like they're still up, but their listings just don't show up on the map. If you (or they) go directly to their listing, you can still see it, with the theory that it'll make it harder for them to tell when they've been banned, and make it slower for them to repost. That user you posted was, in fact, already hellbanned.
Also, you can always hit Flag as Bad on the desktop website to report a scam.
That's a good point that it's not very satisfying to report a scam and then have no visual indication that it was taken down, though.
If you're willing to give us another chance and try us out again, and you encounter any scams, please send them along to hello@padmapper.com. We've got a full time customer service person now!
Sidenote: Congratulations!
One thing we've had good success with in the past, but just couldn't afford once they raised their prices, was Sift Science. We've been meaning to try some of the alternatives to that.
Zumper also has some interesting ideas about it that they've used successfully in the past, that we're planning on integrating.
Having the time to do this (and not focusing on dealmaking) will be really nice :-)
I note that 3 full-timers managing a 100M-sessions site would be another interesting writeup. Hint hint, nudge nudge.
On the technical side, big multicore Xeons and SSDs have made it possible to run a veritable server farm in only a few physical machines recently.
We're coming to the Python world finally, after bouncing between PHP and Ruby.
And belated congrats to you too!
Everything else is a function to generate profit.
If there's any part you'd like to hear more about, let me know!
Well, I would love to read about keeping focus, high productivity and a lean team after 7 years. I just love stories about high-productivity small teams. On the technical side, the PHP to Flask migration would be very interesting too.
Batching email into a couple of times per day is another big boost.
One of the big benefits of such a small team is there's much less communication flying around, and far fewer meetings, so it's easier to get real work done.