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How I hacked my room hunt in SF
- paulorlando 13y agoCool. Easy hack I'll try next time I look for a place.
- jqueryin 13y agoVery interesting... having never had to apartment hunt before in an area I was unfamiliar with, I find it fascinating that I would've overlooked sounding interesting in my emails and kept things pretty stock.
- rcatsr 13y agoGreat, now craigslist is going to be filled with a couple real rooms for rent, the usual spam, and a bunch of "hacker" spam.
- banachtarski 13y agoAgreed this is horrible.
- jashmenn 13y agoI can imagine an unethical candidate reposting a duplicate job (or several copies) and then replying "sorry, no thanks" to the competition. This introduces an interesting dynamic: how can you verify that a post you're replying to is genuine?
- uxuf 13y agoWell that ended abruptly.
- bensw 13y agoWas considering of doing a similar thing for accepting candidates for my house. My plan was to take all the responses, strip all references to locations, and then randomly send them to every listing in every other major metropolitan area. The one that got the most callbacks I would then callback. In the end, my roommates read through all the responses and I didn't have to do any work.
- mikesilvis 13y agoYou mean... If you make yourself sound like a somewhat normal and interesting person people will want to live with you? I don't understand how this was a breakthrough for you.
- nemrow 13y agoThats a pretty sweet way to utilize startup strategies you have learned on the job to benefit you personally.
- birken 13y agoUnfortunately this fails the categorical imperative test. If everybody did this, the system you are using would be much worse off. You are benefitting at the cost of other people's wasted time and effort. So I wouldn't brag about it too much.