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Padspin is a crowdsourcing platform for finding apartments. Padspin incentivize outgoing tenants to share unique details on their living experience and the availability of their soon-to-be-ex-apartments. This provides unprecedented insight into the housing market, and creates a direct path to the landlord, bypassing brokers and their hefty fees completely.

Padspin launch their Beta at Techweek New York LAUNCH competition, one of the largest tech conferences in the US, Oct 4th 2014. The LAUNCH competition consisted of 50 start-ups chosen from hundreds of applicants. Padspin was selected as one of the Top 5 finalists to make the stage and present to the conference and panel judges.

Since launching Padspin has helped many apartment seekers avoid paying exorbitant broker fees and is proving to be a string consumer tool. Padspin has been featured in multiple publications:

Gothamist: http://gothamist.com/2014/11/26/new_app_kills_broker_fee.php DNAinfo: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141126/east-village/apartment-hunt-without-brokers-fee-theres-new-app-for-that TechPageOne: http://techpageone.dell.com/tech-culture/padspin-matchpad-make-nyc-renters-lives-easier/