Monthly Archives: April 2009

“Apartments by PadMapper Lite” has joined “Apartments by PadMapper” on the iPhone app store. The only differences between the two are the price ($Free vs. $1.99), and one of them is missing the ability to modify the filters. The lite version basically just gives you a big list of the couple hundred closest listings sorted [...]

Over the past couple of days, I completely redid the way keyword search works, switching to a new search technology, and I just pushed the update out. It should be MUCH faster now. With the old method, it would take up to 15 or 30 seconds and destroy the server to the point where it [...]

Update (4/17): someone just pitched in $150, so $15->$165 in the article below, which changes the conclusion… since the tip jar is about 10x what it was before, and advertising was looking 10-100x more profitable than donation, now donation is roughly on par with the low end of those advertising figures, which I think is [...]