LiveNearFriends has one simple goal: Help you live within a 5-minute walk of a close friend or family member. It's that "one weird trick" for a happier life. We help you find nearby homes for rent or sale and make the conversation with friends fun and easy.
My name is Phil, the creator of LiveNearFriends.
I live near within a short walk of a dozen of friends. We eat meals together, care for each other, and now are raising kids together.
Living near friends has made my life joyful and easy. I want others to experience the same (with less work than it took me). So I created LiveNearFriends.
Living near a single friend or family member can dramatically increase your happiness. One Harvard study reckons up to 50% happier.
We make it easy to find both *rental or sale* homes nearby friends. You and your friends get alerts when homes come available within a 5-minute walk
We also make the coordination piece of this fun and less awkward. The "LiveNearMe" link is the invitation to find a home near a friend. They can subscribe to housing alerts within a 5-minute walk that match their unique criteria.
5-minutes is the magic low-friction distance that makes social relationships easy. You can pop over in your crocs. Or pajamas. Or carrying a baby without worrying about that pesky car seat. You can stop in just to see if someone’s around without thinking twice. Research shows: The benefits of living near friends starts to drop off after 1/2 a mile. And we truly want you to be happy. So we focus on 5-minutes.
Matt Damon lives near Ben Affleck. Think of how many Oscars you might win if you live near one of your buds.
About LiveNearFriends on Product Hunt
“Live a 5-minute walk from friends or family”
LiveNearFriends launched on Product Hunt on August 8th, 2023 and earned 100 upvotes and 27 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. LiveNearFriends has one simple goal: Help you live within a 5-minute walk of a close friend or family member. It's that "one weird trick" for a happier life. We help you find nearby homes for rent or sale and make the conversation with friends fun and easy.
On the analytics side, LiveNearFriends competes within Lifestyle, Neighborhood and Community — topics that collectively have 4.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how LiveNearFriends performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted LiveNearFriends?
LiveNearFriends was hunted by Phil Levin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Phil Levin