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I don't understand the "Add Your Website" thing, considering the mention of "see ads from Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace and other home-share/roommate startups." Do we provide the URL of a Craigslist search that we want to watch?

I'm in Sacramento and would love to use this.

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The "Add Your Website" is essentially for other housing startups who want their listings to be added onto the map.

It's still early and we're exploring how the listings ecosystem is going to populate and retire itself. We're thinking of using a combination of crawling/indexing, 3rd party APIs/feeds, and manual submissions (aka "add your website" button) to achieve this.

The 'add your website' button is if you have an apartment complex website, housing startup website, or a craigslist/facebook posting you'd like for us to index.

You can give us the URL and we will include it in our results after verification of its validity and availability.

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