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Anderson
@andersonaddo.bsky.social
I make things – startups, apps, games.🔸Building http://theretowhere.com
Currently @ Stripe Atlas 🔸 Founded getemit.com, others 🔸 Brown University alum.

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If you've come to my profile because I mentioned theretowhere to you - hiiiii 👋🏾
Let me know what you think of it! 😊
Pay for good tools, people.
I've been using some startup tools for social media, email, etc, and my goodness they're great. Those people have spent years working on that problem, you haven't - just pay up and benefit from their time. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
September 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I love buying new domains. I tend to keep them forever, even if a project is dead or no longer havily used. I own about 8 so far - more to come in the future lool #indiehackers #buildinpublic #domains
September 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Big win for the accuracy of travel time heatmaps in theretowhere.com - they can now be aware of the time of day you want to take trips. Makes a big difference! Here's an example of a 20 minute car ride map in SF starting at chase center. #indiehackers #buildinpublic
September 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I had a dev session recently adding testimonies to my product homepage. It was quite affirming ☺️ #indiedev #buildinpublic #indiehackers #buildingaloneishardlol
August 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Most mapping apps cannot combine bikes with public transportation. Today, theretowhere.com can! Transit + bike is fully supported in city heatmaps and in directions. This was highly requested - give it a whirl! #buildinpublic #indiehackers #cycling #biking
August 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Looking for apartments or Airbnbs close to work but far from sirens (ie ambulances, etc)? theretowhere.com now supports searches like this! Here's an example showing parts of NYC close to WeWorks but far from hospitals. #indiehackers #apartmenthunting #nyc #buildinpublic
August 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Great testimonial I got from a user (over discord)
Just going to paste it in word for word

"wow this is unreal and DIRECTLY solves a pain point I've had for years (which is not true of 99.9% of software I see)"

Made by day ☺️
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
July 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New feature (highly requested 😂 )! Heatmaps now provide detailed travel time breakdowns without having to leave the page! Check it out in some of our template heatmaps (also mobile friendly) theretowhere.com/heatmap/temp...

#indiehackers #buildinpublic #travel #apartments #apartmenthunting
July 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In some weeks I'm going spin up a paid plan for Theretowhere so I can offer features that are uneconomical to offer for free. Wondering what I should name it. I don't want "Pro" - boring. Maybe Prime? Or something thematic, like Explorer? Any ideas?

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #showerthoughts
July 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I always say its possible (but not easy) to find good apartments in NYC without insultingly high rent. Informal rent agreements one secret! And avoiding "hip" areas. Want to write about this in theretowhere.com/blog - anyone have secrets to share?
#apartments #apartmenthunting #nyc #buildinpublic
Theretowhere has a blog! 🙀
The blog for Theretowhere - the powerful apartment, hotel and Airbnb hunting tool. Find apartment hunting and travel tips and facts here.
theretowhere.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Has anyone else realized that there doesn't seem to be an existing API that can give you crime data when given a coordinate? Like, it doesn't even need to be super accurate - county wide or precinct wide statistics would be enough. Interesting.

#buildinpubic #indiehackers #apis #indiedev
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If anyone would like to be a guest writer for theretowhere's blog (travel tips, apartment hunting tips, etc), let me know! Would love to get other people's writing up in there. theretowhere.com/blog

#travel #buildinpublic #apartmenthunting #lifehacks
Theretowhere has a blog! 🙀
The blog for Theretowhere - the powerful apartment hunting tool. Find apartment hunting tips and facts here.
theretowhere.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
New feature! Paste in your 🏝️ travel itinerary 🏝️ and get a heatmap of the best places to book hotels and airbnbs in matter of seconds! Overlay these heatmaps onto sites like Airbnb and Expedia.

theretowhere.com/vacation <-- this is an exciting direction! Try it out

#buildinpublic #indiehackers
July 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Glanced at my user session analytics for the first time in a few weeks and found a good amount of UX fixes I could make for theretowhere.com. I should never have stopped looking at them! Keep paying close attention to your user journeys - you'll always learn from them. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
There to Where
Theretowhere helps you find apartments, homes and hotels that are close to people and things you care about.
theretowhere.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Starting a blog to spread apartment hunting tips, city comparisons, moving tips, etc.

theretowhere.com/blog

Anything you would want to see written about?
Guest writers accepted! You'll get full credit.

#buildinpublic #startup #indiehackers #blogging #blogs
Theretowhere has a blog! 🙀
The blog for Theretowhere - the powerful apartment hunting tool. Find apartment hunting tips and facts here.
theretowhere.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If you've come to my profile because I mentioned theretowhere to you - hiiiii 👋🏾
Let me know what you think of it! 😊
February 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Took theretowhere.com down for the night - hackernews traffic was waaaay too expensive - got to over $400 in like 24 hours. 🫠

Made some changes that will make the site way more cost effective - hopefully users won't notice much of a difference.

Lots more improvements planned!
There to Where
Making moving easy.
theretowhere.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Some numbers from theretowhere.com usage after yesterday (and today) (a bit inaccurate since billing dashboards lag a lot):

~60K sessions
~27k cloud function calls
~100k calls to my autocomplete API
~100k operations on my heatmapping services

Will cost about $200 - would be 2x w/o free tiers.
There to Where
Making moving easy.
theretowhere.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My project just reached top 5 on hackernews 😳
theretowhere.com
This is pretty dope :3
February 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM