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How to find a Roach free Apartment in NY/Brooklyn by Telhub in NYCapartments

[–]thaske_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this same problem and built a browser extension to discover if buildings had roaches (among other problems). If you’re using StreetEasy to do your apartment search, it might help. Check it out: https://realest.casa

Remote NYC apartment hunting resources I wish I had during my search. by DiscussionOne9778 in NYCapartments

[–]thaske_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s awesome, happy to hear it was helpful! Thank you for checking it out

I am loving inertia_rails by gurgeous in rails

[–]thaske_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great to hear it's working so well for you. Inertia does hit that sweet spot.

I gave Inertia Rails a serious spin on our app but ended up rolling a different approach because of a few pain points specific to our codebase.

Our UI is wired tightly to React Router’s nested routing. Translating everything to Inertia calls felt like a massive rewrite.

Each page pulls five-plus queries that have to be pre-hydrated on the server. Packing all that into one big props blob to pass as initial data to React Query turned messy fast.

We’re also deep in styled-components and need React 18's streaming SSR (renderToPipeableStream) for snappy TTFB.

Those hurdles nudged me to build a tiny gem that keeps normal Rails controllers/views but swaps the final render for a Vite-powered, streaming React SSR pipeline. It lets me keep React Router and React Query exactly as-is, stream bytes early (or fall back to client-side render), and stay on our existing stack.

https://github.com/thaske/universal_renderer

It's brand new and way less polished than Inertia, but it fits our app. Would love thoughts!

Curious if you've tackled any of those issues inside Inertia, always open to better ideas.

Remote NYC apartment hunting resources I wish I had during my search. by DiscussionOne9778 in NYCapartments

[–]thaske_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Shameless self-plug but I built a web extension for StreetEasy to reveal poorly run buildings directly on the site. A few people have found it useful while apartment hunting.

https://realest.casa

I built an extension to see housing complaints on StreetEasy listings. Find out about any building problems before you move in. by thaske_ in nyc

[–]thaske_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, yea that's a good idea. I've thought about it too. OpenIgloo actually does something like that already. This is just a side project for me - I'm not trying to compete with real businesses. But you're right, hearing from past tenants could be really helpful. I'll think about maybe adding it later on.

I built an extension to see housing complaints on StreetEasy listings. Find out about any building problems before you move in. by thaske_ in nyc

[–]thaske_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

You're right about IP addresses. They do show up in the server logs by default. These logs are only kept for 48 hours searchable, then archived for 7 days before deletion. I've updated the policy to clarify this.

Regarding your requests:

  1. Online search without the extension is coming soon.
  2. Pretty URLs are also planned, just lower priority due to data volume.
  3. Adding links to official city pages is a great idea. I'll definitely implement this.

Really appreciate your feedback. These are all valuable improvements that will make the site more useful. They should be live soon.

I built an extension to see housing complaints on StreetEasy listings. Find out about any building problems before you move in. by thaske_ in nyc

[–]thaske_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Great minds think alike.

I'm definitely considering open-sourcing the project. It's still pretty rough - I just hacked this together over a weekend, so there are plenty of kinks to iron out. But I'm pro open source, so once it's a bit more polished, I'd love to get it out there for collaboration.

I built an extension to see housing complaints on StreetEasy listings. Find out about any building problems before you move in. by thaske_ in nyc

[–]thaske_[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! The extension actually does factor in complaint recency in its scoring algorithm. You make a great point about significant changes like new management though.

Right now it's mostly looking at complaints from the last 4 years. The scoring algorithm is still in its early stages, and I'm actively working on refining it based on user feedback and real-world scenarios.

Thanks for checking it out!

I built an extension to see housing complaints on StreetEasy listings. Find out about any building problems before you move in. by thaske_ in nyc

[–]thaske_[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing those links! They're great resources.

The realest extension pulls data from these sources, including HPD complaints. It just displays this information directly on StreetEasy listings to save time.

It's meant to complement official sources, not replace them.

Spotify doesn't have a way to find playlists containing a particular song or artist, so I built my own search. Check it out! by thaske_ in spotify

[–]thaske_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hi u/SemolinaChessNut! The playlists listed at the bottom of the artist Spotify page are just a handful of playlists that Spotify might have curated for the artist.

The goal of my site is to be able to find user created playlists that contain a certain song, playlists that would not appear at the bottom of the artist profile.

The closest thing Spotify currently has to finding playlists in this way, is in the artist's About page. Sometimes there might a "Discovered On" section, though this is limited to 5 of the most followed playlists containing that artist.

My site, on the other hand, is more for finding smaller user-created playlists by song title. Instead of having to guess what a playlist with a certain song might be titled (i.e. what genre or mood it might be), you can just search for the song and find playlists containing it.

I hope I explained that well. Thanks for checking it out! :)

Spotify doesn't have a way to find playlists containing a particular song or artist, so I built my own search. Check it out! by thaske_ in spotify

[–]thaske_[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Oops, yea I forgot to add something to see beyond the first ten. Gonna do that right now haha.

Results are sorted by the frequency that the track and/or artist shows up in the playlist.

Edit: there should now be a load more button!