**Two years ago in mid-June I got my UIUC transfer offer.**

**Two years ago today, July 3rd, I signed the 4B4B that turned into a total nightmare.** If you saw my earlier post, you know the story.

**Two years later, on this exact date, I used the CS I've been learning at UIUC since then to build something that hopefully saves other people from spending hours across a dozen tabs just trying to figure out what's actually available!**  
  
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Coming back with an update on this project. It's basically done at this point, just made a bunch of changes recently.

Biggest one: search is now split into two modes.

1. If you're not sure what you want yet, or you have general questions like *"when should I start looking," "when are prices lowest," "do prices go up after the semester starts,"* you can just type it in plain language and it'll walk you through it.
2. If you already know exactly what you're looking for, you can go straight to map view or card view and filter from there.

Been polishing the UI too, and messing around with AI to generate some nicer visuals for the project page.

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The project is launching very soon!!!!!!!!! Invitation links start going out today.

If you're interested, feel free to join the waitlist, first batch of invites will go out to people already on there. 

>*Not trying to do the fake scarcity thing, just being honest: this is my first time actually launching something like this, and I genuinely don't know what kind of traffic to expect. Rolling it out to the waitlist first is mostly so I can make sure everything actually works smoothly before opening it up to everyone, don't want anyone's first experience to be a broken page or a site that's crawling.*

Thanks for following along with this, means a lot !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update: the UIUC housing tool is launching next week!!!! (yes, the one from the cigarette post)