Cribspot (YC W15) is a search engine for college housing

Re:Cribspot (YC W15) is a search engine for college housing by padobson on Monday March 23, 2015 @04:36PM (#9253207)

I'd love to know how you have gone about getting the initial sublets on there. Was it scraping other sites like Zillow and Craigslist?

I just posted one of my apartments expecting to be the only one in the area (I'm the only host on Airbnb in my city limits), and there were already four other apartments there.

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Re:Cribspot (YC W15) is a search engine for college housing by timjones on Monday March 23, 2015 @04:42PM (#9253237)

All sublets are posted by our users. We haven't had to scrape from other sources.

Airbnb doesn't typically have a ton of supply in most of our smaller college towns. We get a lot of sublets posted partially because there aren't a lot of great resources outside of Craigslist.

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