EveryBlock

Next Door acquired EveryBlock. I helped start EveryBlock. When making a product, there are lots of competing product directions. The direction I most wanted for EveryBlock was what we call in database work as a “single source of truth”. A decade later, there is still no one delivering on that promise, and the idea of…

It’s been a while since EveryBlock was removed from the Internet. Shortly after its removal, I put together a Github repository on what it would take to take the open source code and get it to the shape it was on that crisp February day. Now here’s some thoughts on what the product ended up…

Today marks the end of a website called EveryBlock. I was lucky enough to be a part of the team that first made that site. Here’s a post I wrote on our launch day explaining what it meant to be a meaningful contributor to the project. I had been obsessed with municipal data for years,…