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by rwl
5842 days ago
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1) Job and apartment search -- or "matching." I know there are all kinds of places where you can look for a job or an apartment online. But the process sucks. There is a ton of information out there, most of which is irrelevant, and the tools for sifting through it are terrible (I'm looking at you, Craigslist). Even when you find a job or an apartment you want to contact someone about, it's a total crapshoot as to whether the person at the other end will get back to you, most likely because they too are being inundated with irrelevant information -- inquirers or applicants they're probably not interested in. I can envision something that works more like a dating site solving these problems. Both parties put in descriptions of themselves and criteria for what they're looking for in a potential employer/landlord or employee/tenant. Then the site matches people based on these criteria and sends both parties a list of good potential matches. Et voila -- a much smaller, more relevant set of data for both parties. I know there are sites that already do something like this in one domain or the other, but I haven't seen any that really do a good job. I also think there's huge potential for putting the two problems together, since people are often looking for both a new job and a new apartment at once, and they use similar criteria (e.g., location, proximity to XYZ, seeking someone who has or wants XYZ...) that are currently difficult to search by. Edit: I see that "dating site" and "Craigslist competitor" are both on the original ideas.html. I see my idea as an instance of these. |
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There is so much overlap because the apartment finders (working on commission) are all posting the same listings they grab off the MLS. This seems ripe for innovation as the redundancy and non-existent barriers of entry make for a very ineffective system.