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Hereabouts

Jul 18, 2026 Other

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Hey all — I recently build a platform called Hereabouts over the past few weeks. The idea: pick an activity (running, night out, quiet time, biking, shopping, etc. — or type your own), and it scores every NYC neighborhood in real time based on things like current noise complaints, traffic, crime/crash data, subway activity, nearby events, and even live social media chatter. Green = great fit right now, red = probably skip it. It's genuinely live data — pulls from NYC Open Data, weather, Tick...

Comments (6)

Jeffrey Schamberger Jeffrey Schamberger 3 months ago

basically just yelp with extra steps

Gene Wiegand Gene Wiegand 3 months ago

finding spots by what you wanna do there is such a clever angle

Sydnie Stark Sydnie Stark 3 months ago

what location data source? google places api gets pricey at scale

Trent Howe Trent Howe 3 months ago

what's powering the location scoring? postgres+postgis or something lighter

Newell Klocko Newell Klocko 3 months ago

what's powering the location data, osm or hitting a commercial api?

Audie Wilkinson Audie Wilkinson 2 months ago

how does scoring work? kinda the whole pitch