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Looking for an apartment/roommates?
If you are looking for an apartment for the summer, or a sublet, or a roommate, try tpot (http://tpot.stanford.edu).
tpot is an app built at Stanford that helps you find tenants/roommates that shared common friends/attributes with you.
Here's how it works:
1a. if you are posting a "roommate wanted" ad on, say craigslist (CL), you log into tpot using Facebook, create a trust link, and paste it in your description on CL.
1b. If you are responding to a CL ad, again log into tpot, create a trust link, and send it with your response.
2. When the other party clicks on it, they (and you) see the following info:
- If you and them are within 3 hops (friend of a friend of a friend) of each other on FB.
- Which of your friends are you connected to them through.
- If you went to the same school, grew up in the same town, and/or worked for the same employer.
This info will help you (and them) make a more informed decision about renting/roommates.
This also works in other settings which require a high degree of trust: ride shares, finding cofounders, contract jobs, etc.