Introducing DirectorySF ✨
DirectorySF is an invite-only directory to find housemates & coliving communities in the San Francisco tech scene. Go to www.directorysf.com for more.
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What is DirectorySF?
DirectorySF is a private directory of vetted people looking for housemates and group houses in the SF technology scene. It’s kinda like how Facebook took the IRL Harvard social network and brought it online, but instead, DirectorySF is taking an online social network and bringing it offline to help people find a great place to live.
Why build this?
Over the last few months, there’s been a large wave of people moving back to San Francisco. This is the best city in the world to build, and people are starting to see that again. On any given day, five new people need my help finding a place. That’s 35 people a week. I can’t tell you how overwhelming this has become—if I stopped responding to your messages, I’m so sorry. I’m building this because I think DirectorySF will do a much better job at helping people find a place than I ever could. If you have sent me cool people over the last few months, I greatly appreciate you, and I think they’ll be in much better hands here.
Who is this for?
If you’re reading this right now, it’s probably for you. DirectorySF is for founders, builders, researchers, writers, designers, and anybody related to tech/startups. I believe this will be especially helpful for people newer to the city, those trying to coordinate with friends on securing an apartment or coliving space, and existing coliving community organizers looking for a helping hand at finding highly qualified roommates.
How do you use it?
It depends on who you are! Let’s break down the three scenarios.
Looking for housing
If you’re looking for a short-term rental or don’t want to lead the efforts at organizing a group, then you can add your information to this part of the directory. It’ll be a great way for future house and existing community organizers to spot you.
Also, if you click around the other tabs of DirectorySF, you can reach out to the other groups of people that are handling all the housing.
It’s good to do both to find the right place for you.
Starting a new house
If you’re a person that cares deeply about cultivating the environment you want to live in, then this is the spot for you. Your responsibility is to find people of similar interests as you & lead the efforts at securing an apartment or house. Add your information to this tab of the directory. Also, outreach to people seeking space to speed up the process.
Existing communities
If you already have an apartment or coliving community but need more high-quality inbound to fill your rooms, this is definitely the spot for you. The DirectorySF’s main purpose is to bring in our scene exclusively, so every person that reaches out has a significantly higher chance of being a fit. Add your information to this part of the directory for looking residents to discover you, and just like the others, I encourage you to do outreach to others you see in the directory.
Built on top of Twitter
Honestly, I could’ve just made a Facebook group and sent people there, but I don’t use Facebook and that’s not where our people live online anymore. All of my internet friends are on Twitter, so I thought it’d be a cool way to discover people I probably know who are looking for housing. Going to do some cool stuff with the “Followed by” metric.
Open-source
If you live in another city & wanna fork this for your own community, then go right on ahead: https://github.com/tjschulz2/sf-housing-app.
Would love to see this help more people.
How do I signup?
Submit your information here: https://airtable.com/shrBmKG0e4fxr8hAp. Or go to https://directorysf.com and press “Apply”.
We’re prioritizing people looking for housing within the next 3 months.
We’ll also add you if you know many people looking for housing & want to help by sending referrals.
Special credit to Neall Seth
Neall and I worked on this together, and he was crucial in making this happen. I haven’t programmed in a few years, and Neall brought a lot to the table in architecting how all of this would come together.
Enjoy! If you have any feedback or any questions, then feel free to reach out to me on Twitter.
Thomas
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