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Turn the chaos of NYC apartment hunting into one shared pipeline your household actually agrees on

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Overview

Hunting for an apartment in New York with someone you trust sounds romantic until you’re juggling seventeen listings across StreetEasy screenshots, texts, and half-remembered tours. nyhome is the “finally we have one source of truth” app: a gorgeous shortlist-first PWA where every unit flows through a real pipeline—from new through tours, finalist debates, applications, lease review, and signed—with rejection and blacklist paths handled intentionally so emotionally charged decisions don’t corrupt your data.

Each listing becomes a mini dossier: rent economics, amenities chips, neighborhood pins tied to Google Maps when addresses exist, star tiers on cards for gut reactions, dual scorecards so both partners grade criteria independently, blended averages with clever “beats X% of what we’ve seen” storytelling once you’ve scored enough inventory, photo thumbnails (including hover previews), and an Activity Log that behaves like CRM notes—not chat screenshots buried in SMS.

Managers get the backstage dashboard—scan every saved apartment, tweak statuses inline, maintain scoring criteria libraries, enforce blacklist guardrails with duplicate warnings, flip on compact scoring when you only care about your top priorities, ping digest emails on demand, peek at lightweight analytics, and lean on guided Tour-vs-Toured coaching so nobody skips steps during crowded Sunday opens.

Hook up email and you get pipeline digests, “spot something new?” surprises, scoring-complete cheers, and gentle closure notes when a listing lands in rejected—all without shouty browser popups—plus calm in-app confirmations when messages fire. Fair warning: there’s still no login screen by default, so treat deployments like a shared family workspace until you bolt on access controls you trust.

What you can actually do with it

Choose how you want to browse listings

Cards feel like flipping through glossy pitches—stars, photos, rent chips, quick stats along the top. Finalist switches to rows and columns when you’re comparing finalists side-by-side with links handy. Next actions jumps between a tidy checklist and calendar modes so tour dates, application deadlines, and move-in targets finally live somewhere outside group texts.

Filters & navigation that respect phones

Tap the floating filters button for a sleek drawer that groups pipeline stages sensibly; on smaller screens you also get thumb-friendly bottom navigation so you aren’t stretching for menus mid-sidewalk.

Every apartment gets its own mini headquarters

Open a listing and slide between scorecards with plain-language criterion hints, photo galleries tied to how you graded things, mirrored editing forms whether you arrived from admin or the shortlist, separate tabs for each partner’s notes, tour scheduling that drops straight into Google Calendar, toured walk-through checklists (plus a focused checklist-only screen when you’re onsite), application paperwork tracking, and a living timeline that reads like CRM notes instead of chaotic chats.

Paste messy listing blurbs—let nyhome tidy them

Drop gnarly copy from portals or Maps snippets into Notes and watch address, rent math, concessions, and bedroom counts unpack into structured fields before you finesse the details.

Guardrails when emotions run hot

Blacklist sketchy buildings before they creep back in, get warned before saving duplicates (unless you’re resurrecting an old rejection), and step statuses forward or backward safely so adrenaline doesn’t wreck your pipeline.

Built-in etiquette lessons

Share the instructions page with curious helpers so everyone understands “scheduled tour” versus “already toured”—no more mystery statuses after relatives babysit open houses.

Emails & gentle confirmations

Pipeline digests, “new listing” surprises, scoring-complete cheers, and respectful bump notes when something lands in rejected—all powered by mail when you hook up SMTP—plus tidy dialogs instead of hostile browser alerts.

Feels like an app on your phone

Add nyhome to your home screen so it opens instantly like software you paid for; updates roll forward smoothly once caches refresh.

Technology stack

JavaScript
Netlify Functions
PlanetScale MySQL
nodemailer
Progressive Web App

Get access

nyhome isn’t offered as an open demo here—reach out from the inquire page if you’d like details or a conversation about using it for your household or team.