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I'm working on a project to find the best places for you to live (in the US).

Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you.

Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them:

https://exoroad.com



> best fit

Depending on who you ask, and/or by what methods you're computing this, this is in fact AI. Probably most would agree that a neural network is AI, but quite a few will assert that linear regression is too.

edit: didn't mean to make this a put-down or try to exclude you. I guess I'm just being pedantic for no reason (or bitterness about the near-meaninglessness of the term "AI").


That's a fair critique for the context of this thread. There's no linear regression currently. I didn't take the thread title to mean "explicitly attempting to have my product devoid of any AI," as opposed to "building a product, and it doesn't have AI", which is my current case.


Hey, this is really great! I used gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages when I decided where I wanted to live. One thing that was really important to me, that your site doesn't cover, is growth. I grew up in a small town, and hated the "we're a small town where everyone knows everyone one and we want to keep it that way". I specifically filtered out cites that didn't show Year over Year growth, which surprisingly filtered out hundreds of cities and virtually every small town in America. You could create a section for "History" and then start with census data and work your way out. The age of the town probably reveals a lot too, like the average age of houses, types of jobs, etc...


Thanks for the feedback! Growth is an interesting concept I hadn't heard people wanted yet, but totally makes sense. Population and home price over time for a specific place, of course. But to filter or weight choices based on YoY growth in some aspect? There's definitely a case to be made for the momentum of some places to keep getting better and others that stagnate.


Really Cool,had this problem when I was looking to move places. Do you reckon there is a profitable business model with this?




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