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Echo — Find a quiet place to live
The best way to find out if your apartment is quiet before signing a lease is to hear from the people who lived there before you. Our site allows users to find apartments and read rating based solely on noise.
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Manny
Looking forward to when it gets international data. We are currently experiencing noise issues ourselves and this tool would be handy in the future.
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@manny_orduna sorry we're only in the US right now. Thanks for checking it out!
@lpavele we have a couple ideas for additional features, like incorporating street noise data, that we might offer exclusively to users who've left a review.
Good job. Congrats. I'm looking for ways to help WFH people here in my country as well.
We're here to find you a quiet place to live. Looking for peace and quiet in the rental market is nothing but a roll of the dice. We've built the only apartment rating site that is strictly dedicated to helping you find the needle-in-a-haystack that is a quiet apartment. Paper thin walls and upstairs neighbors that sound like a stampede are more annoying than ever in the modern WFH era. Hearing from previous and existing tenants lets you take luck out of the equation and find the right apartment the first time.
There are numerous sites for reading reviews for apartments, but none made it easy to find a quiet one, so we built Echo Rating. There are already so many unknowns when moving to a new apartment, but noise level is notoriously difficult to figure out before you sign a lease. Far too many apartments leave you hearing every footstep from upstairs and every word your neighbor says. Paying more doesn't even guarantee success, especially in expensive markets like Seattle, San Francisco and New York.
What we built is a simple, clean, easy-to-use web app for browsing buildings during your apartment search. We're not here to revolutionize the tech world or raise a Series A. We're just some engineers that wanted to make something useful for people who work from home, study from home, are sensitive to constant noise or are just tired of never being able to relax in their own apartment. We hope some people find this as useful as we do.
Note: We are currently only operating in the US. We hope to add more soon. Apologies to all the international users who've taken the time to check it out anyway.
@farynaio Sorry about that. I updated the description. We have some unique map challenges that made an international rollout too difficult for the MVP. Thanks for pointing it out and taking a look. I didn't realize how high of a percentage of users here are international. lesson learned.
