[tibbon]

Seems, not quite there yet. I like living in Somerville, which is one of the neighborhoods it indexes.

1) It only returns 19 results for Somerville

2) None of them allow cats (really? Every apartment I've lived in Somerville was more than happy to have cats).

3) There is no option to search for ones with garages (yes, there are garages in Somerville!)

4) There is no feedback as to where this Hop Score comes from (freshness, quality, manager? How do they know who a good landlord is?)

I'm not sure what this does for me honestly over other services. It looks nice. But 3 years, MIT developers and funding don't seem to add up here.

Fundamentally, the problem of indexing information about apartments is still broken completely, and no one seems to be able to fix it.

[leelin]

Hi there, I'm one of the RentHop founders.

For now we had to seed our initial reputation using priors from our data partners and our NYC models. We'll be sure our scoring gets smarter and better fit to Boston over time.

[dkrich]

Hmm, interesting points. Maybe you noticed that the service JUST LAUNCHED in the Boston area. I'm pretty happy to see this because just today I was wondering why apartment hunting sucks so bad. I've been looking in DC for two weeks now and I still haven't found two people who agree on which neighborhoods/apartments are best.