SecurityBot.dev's answer:

SecurityBot.dev is built using the Laravel Framework, and is backed by a managed MySQL database. The application and infrastructure is deployed through Laravel Forge and is hosted on Digital Ocean.

SkaldMaps's answer

SkaldMaps is designed for home buyers, real estate investors, realtors, and anyone who wants a practical way to understand U.S. places through data.

We offer a large dataset of attributes across ZIPs, counties, and census tracts, with tract workflows on Expert. We do not just re-package census data and have many attributes to explore.

Whether you're a first-time buyer trying to balance commute and school quality, an investor looking for locations with strong public-data fundamentals, or just a curious researcher, SkaldMaps gives you the data and tools to make informed decisions.

SecurityBot.dev's answer:

SecurityBot is used by a mix of established tech companies and indie entrepreneurs.

SkaldMaps's answer

SkaldMaps LLC is a small business from Georgia. Our background is in Data Engineering and Data Science, and we're passionate about making data more accessible and actionable for everyone.

Our starter plan is well within reach for regular home owners, no MLS access required.

SkaldMaps was born out of a prototype we've built for ourselves - and wound up purchasing a property based on the data it uncovered.

SkaldMaps is the grown up version of that idea.

SecurityBot.dev's answer:

SecurityBot.dev founder Jason Gilmore is a prolific creator of online products, including 6DollarCRM, SpiesInDC, TurboShrink, and has long maintained a personal website at WJGilmore.com. He originally built SecurityBot.dev to monitor his own products, and it worked so well that he subsequently released it for wider use.

SkaldMaps's answer

Instead of using a generic market score, you define the criteria, weight them, and filter the results according to your own strategy.

This allows you to find exactly what you're looking for, whether that's areas with favorable rent benchmarks and home price trends, affordable ownership costs and good schools, or a low-density rural area for a hunting property.

SkaldMaps's answer

We do not offer parcel data - our focus is on area-level data and tools across ZIPs, counties, and tracts. This allows us to provide a more affordable and user-friendly product for home buyers, investors, and realtors who want to explore and understand markets before considering individual parcel research.

In other words, if you want to filter an entire state by price, schools, commute (or whatever you care about!) to find promising ZIP codes for a home search or investment thesis, SkaldMaps is built for that.

We wanted to build a tool that's useful for a homebuyer moving for work, somebody looking for an investment property, or a realtor or investor helping clients - not just for giant corporations investing millions in commercial real estate.

Nothing wrong with that: We think SkaldMaps still offers some great tools for those folks. However, if you need property lines, the good people over at those companies do great work and offer powerful tools for users who need parcel-level data and analysis.

We see SkaldMaps as complementary to those offerings - a more accessible entry point for many users, and a way to explore and understand county, ZIP, or even census tract level patterns that can inform more detailed analysis down the line.