NYC renters check six different sites before finding one listing. We built the app that checks them for you.

The renter's actual problem wasn't 'where do I find listings,' it was 'why do I have to check five different places to find them, and still miss the good ones.' Any product that added a sixth tab to check wasn't solving anything.

And most of that hunting happens on a phone, standing on a subway platform or lying in bed at midnight, not at a desk. It had to be fast, current, and genuinely mobile, not a website that technically also worked on mobile.

We started with the feed, not the features: a scraping layer pulling from multiple listing sources on a schedule, normalized into one format, so a renter sees one list instead of four browser tabs.

The interface split by device on purpose: map and cards side by side on desktop, a toggle between the two on mobile, because the way someone browses listings changes depending on what's in their hand. Every card surfaces the number that actually matters first: price, room type, location, whether there's a broker fee.

We built it as an installable, offline-friendly web app rather than a native app in an app store queue, so NYC Listings could ship, get it in front of real renters, and iterate on real usage without waiting on app review. Search, filters, saved listings, and accounts rounded out the MVP so a renter could actually use it start to finish, not just browse it.