Everything HomeScout Can Do (And Why I Built It After Moving to Dublin) Originally published on Medium . I moved from the Netherlands to Dublin about two years ago. I had a job lined up, a rough idea of which neighbourhoods looked interesting, and what I thought was a reasonable budget. What I did not have was any idea how broken the rental search experience in this city actually is. Within the first week I was refreshing Daft.ie on my phone during work meetings, copy-pasting the same inquiry email to thirty letting agents, and genuinely losing sleep over apartments I missed because I did not check listings fast enough. Coming from Amsterdam I thought I knew expensive rental markets. Dublin turned out to be worse, with fewer tools to help you make sense of it. After about a month of this, I started building HomeScout . Not because I wanted to launch a startup. Because I was tired of the way things worked and I knew they could be better. I ended up using HomeScout to find my own apartment.…