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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a small project I’ve been building in my free time. It’s called WishPlace, and the idea came from something very common: we often see buildings where we would love to live, but we have no way to know if someone inside would actually sell or rent at a price we can afford. WishPlace tries to flip this. Instead of monitoring dozens of websites, you save the places...
Hi, I’m Alessio and I’m building WishPlace
Hi everyone, I’m Alessio. I live in Barcelona and I work as an Engineering Manager. In my free time I like to build small projects, usually starting from problems I see in everyday life and trying to solve them with quick prototypes. I’m now experimenting on an idea called WishPlace, an inverse housing market. Instead of checking dozens of listings, you save the buildings or streets where you...
What if Homes Found You?
The story behind WishPlace: why I’m building an inverse housing market
There are some buildings where I would love to leave. They are expensive, probably. But who knows if someone there would like to sell the apartment at the price I can afford? And if there would be one, how could I know he exists without visiting any agency of the city, hoping that that person went already there, or without visiting all the possible websites in which he would advertise it? I am...








