Show HN: London flat-finding tool that shows commute times

Hey Cal,

I saw your recent post about asking for feedback. I check the Show HN submissions regularly but I hadn't seen flatnik before. Thought I would drop you some initial points from my first use.

I know London areas reasonably well by name but less so geographically. I guess seasoned commuters would, but not someone new to living in London. I had to keep hovering over the red neighbourhood icons to get the name up. It would be good if each neighbourhood icon was the initial or first letters. That way I'd know MV was Maida Vale, CT would be Camden Town. You will have repeating letters (Kensington, Knightsbridge) but it would make it a lot easier to naturally gravitate to roughly the right area.

When you click on the icons, some of the longer names force the words 'to search' to be orphaned onto the next line of the button. (Whitechapel/Brick Lane & Bethnal Green are two examples) You could take the words 'to search' off.

Also there could be a button for 'Add All' - then folks could filter on commute time at the end. That would really highlight the cost savings by getting people to expand their search. It would be a no brainer if you were considering two flats at 600 & 700 - probably served by the same tube stop, same commute - just a few streets apart. Opening people up to new locations could be really helpful!

Also, when I went through to the results page. They were neither ordered by price or by commute. I think they go by advert age by default. However the option to sort by price/commute would be nice.

Great project, will share it with my friends darn sarf :)

Hey, I'm the author (and this is a just-for-fun project). I'd really like to hear any feedback you have, especially negative feedback! :)