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I ran a home search startup in 2015 and I will always remember the moment my searching finally came up with the name "isochrone" and the explosion of research and data that came with that. Our home search went from "we'll send you an email when its done" to adding fake loading bars to make it seem like it was doing more.

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By 2015 Zillow was already well entrenched, what was your differentiator?

Zillow doesn't have isochrones, for one.

I long for a map experience that's more like a SQL query than a catalog, and Zillow's filtering leaves a lot to be desired.

I agree, Zillow has lackluster filtering. I’ve been working on something similar for people looking for remote work and aren’t particular about where they live. How did the project end up? What were the good parts and the bad parts?

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