Started working on an application to make it easy to see what parcels in NYC are upzoned with the City of Yes[1] changes that were passed last year.
I started off trying to make it a service to help people who are interested in ADU's get connected with architects/ contractors but spent a lot of time working on the interactive map to explore related ideas. The site is here buildbound.xyz and map here buildbound.xyz/map. Right now for example, it's very hard to tell if your site qualifies for the TOD upzoning portion of the City of Yes so maybe there is room to crunch those kind of numbers and provide it as a public service.
Trying to decide to keep going down the ADU route in NYC, even though the market is really early here, expand to NY State/ California where the ADU market is a bit further along or keep doubling down on making the best interactive zoning/ land use map in NYC and see if there is any product market fit to be found.
I'm in the same boat of some of the other commenters using Claude Code but I have found it atleast a 2X in routine backend API development. Most updates to our existing APIs would be on the order of "add one more partner integration following the same interface here and add tests with the new response data". So it is pretty easy to give it to claude code, tell them where to put the new code, tell it how to test, and let it iterate on the tests. So something that may have taken a full afternoon or more to get done gets done much faster and often with a lot more test coverage.
I started off trying to make it a service to help people who are interested in ADU's get connected with architects/ contractors but spent a lot of time working on the interactive map to explore related ideas. The site is here buildbound.xyz and map here buildbound.xyz/map. Right now for example, it's very hard to tell if your site qualifies for the TOD upzoning portion of the City of Yes so maybe there is room to crunch those kind of numbers and provide it as a public service.
Trying to decide to keep going down the ADU route in NYC, even though the market is really early here, expand to NY State/ California where the ADU market is a bit further along or keep doubling down on making the best interactive zoning/ land use map in NYC and see if there is any product market fit to be found.
[1]https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/our-work/plans/ci...
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