Eating, Praying, Losing: Getting Beaten by a Voting Bot in 50 Minutes
If you’ve used the site in the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed that PadMapper recently got nominated for a Webby Award for best Real Estate site! We were pretty excited about this since our...
View ArticleWebby Won!
Woohoo! PadMapper won the Webby (the judge’s panel one, not the web voting one) for Best Real Estate site! Thanks to all of you who voted for PadMapper in the Webby vote, and to all of you who wrote in...
View ArticleReordering Favorites
It’s a pretty basic feature, but you can now reorder your favorites list by clicking and dragging! This should allow you to order your list by priority, by dog vs. no dogs, living with a roommate vs....
View ArticleBye Bye Craigslist :-(
It’s with a heavy heart that I must announce that PadMapper is no longer including Craigslist rental listings – they’re currently being wiped from the search index. I recently received a Cease and...
View ArticleEmails/Letters to Craigslist
Thanks everyone for writing so many emails and letters to Craig and Jim of Craigslist! No response yet from Craig and Jim, but that’s possibly because it’s been the weekend. In the meantime, I thought...
View ArticleHelp Replenish Landlord Listings on PadMapper using PadLister
A couple years ago, when I thought seriously that Craigslist might ask me to remove their listings and that I should have a backup plan, I created PadLister for listing directly on PadMapper. Over...
View ArticleBringing Craigslist Back
I’ve been wrestling with whether to bring back Craigslist listings in the search results. I’ve found a way to include them that I’m told is legally kosher since it doesn’t touch their servers at all,...
View ArticleHow to Solve Crappy Cell Phone Reception at Home
The following is a post mostly written for me by the folks at UberSignal.com, who sell cell phone reception boosters. They didn’t pay me anything to post this, I just thought it was useful because this...
View ArticleVacation Rentals!
You may have noticed a small addition to the filter box – a little checkbox called “Vacation”. It’s probably temporary, but for now that will let you filter for/filter out nightly/weekly vacation...
View ArticleNeat Rental Analytics
Every so often, I get requests from researchers for rental data/statistics to analyze, and they frequently yield some interesting papers and visualizations. One of them just posted some great...
View ArticleGood night, sweet PadMapper Bar
Craigslist has decided to make it impossible for the PadMapper bar to function with their listings, so now, those listings won’t have the PadMapper bar on them. Sorry everyone. If you want a consistent...
View ArticleMassive Rewrite in Google Maps V3!
Well, I did it. I finally got around to rewriting PadMapper in a newer version of Google Maps. I’m probably one of the last developers on the planet to upgrade to Google Maps v3. Why? Well, I really,...
View ArticleScammy Email Gems
Here at PadMapper, our servers automatically screen emails that go through PadLister, to monitor for scams, and ban listers who send scammy emails. Before we ban them, though, we have to review them by...
View ArticleOnward!
After 3 years, we settled our lawsuit with craigslist today. As part of the settlement, we’ll no longer be including craigslist users’ listings in our search results. However, PadMapper is not going...
View ArticleMoving Back to College After Summer Vacation
So you’ve spent your long summer days at your parents’ pad and while we all wish those days could have lasted a little longer… that wishful thinking makes it even harder to believe that the end of...
View ArticlePadMapper is Joining Zumper
Hi everyone, I’m very excited to announce that PadMapper has joined forces with a much larger (27 person) and much better resourced startup – Zumper! I’m guessing that many readers of this aren’t very...
View ArticleFulltext Search Filter is Back!
Hi everyone, fulltext search is back! Next up, no-fee and filter by age. Sorry they didn’t make the relaunch. A little primer on how the fulltext search works. If you just put some words into the box,...
View ArticleNo-Fee and Max Listing Age Filters are Back
Hi guys, continuing with the work of bringing the new site back up to parity with the old in terms of filtering functionality, I’ve just released a new version of the site that includes the old No Fee...
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