Stadtvergleich

Can City Data Become a Business?

Stadtvergleich is a business in community / reddit / startups_eu based in Europe.

Profile

A few weeks ago I was considering moving to another city in Germany.

I expected the hard part to be making the decision. Instead, the hard part was finding reliable information. Most resources I found were either

* SEO-driven relocation content
* subjective opinions on forums and Reddit
* rankings with questionable methodologies
* official datasets scattered across dozens of government websites

That led me down an unexpected path. I started collecting and organizing data from official German sources to answer a simple question:

"How do different German cities actually compare when you look at housing, safety, healthcare, economy, mobility, environment, and quality-of-life indicators together?"

What started as a personal research project eventually became [StadtVergleich](https://www.stadtvergleich.com/).

Some observations from the journey:

* Data collection and cleaning took longe

The company sits in the community / reddit / startups_eu segment, where it competes on its core product or service.

Europe is where the company is located.

Website: stadtvergleich.com