MoveBuddha Product Information and Latest Updates (2025)

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Should I move for work?

1 in 4 people who relocate for work ultimately regret their decision. That's no good. Since we help thousands of people move every year (mostly for work) we built this tool as a starting point to help people think through relocation decisions.

Launch tags:

Web App•Productivity•Home

Launch Team

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Request for product: A more accurate cost of living calculator than Numbeo. This is particularly needed as more companies expand globally. cc @seanlinehan

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5yr ago

Ryan Carrigan

MoveBuddha

Maker

@rrhoover the numbeo data is pretty disappointing for sure. COLI has better data but it's limited to only major US cities. Would love a better API!

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5yr ago

Sean Linehan

Placement

Love the product @carriganisms! @rrhoover We use a variety of sources for Placement.com but it's a tricky problem. For broadly lower-to-middle class folks the data from COLI + government sources gives a good high-level take. The reality is that no matter how good the data is, there are a crazy number of lifestyle-driven factors that come in to play (family planning, school districts, commuting preferences, status signaling via zip code, etc, etc). We have plans to build tools to help people think through those types of things in the future!

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5yr ago

Ryan Carrigan

MoveBuddha

Maker

@seanlinehan agreed, cost of living is not as straightforward a calculation as it seems. A personalized cost of living calculator would be a very cool product.

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5yr ago

Sean Linehan

Placement

@carriganisms We can do a MoveBuddha + Placement collab for it in the future? :-)

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5yr ago

Thom Malone

I went through the form but it didn't return a result unfortunately, just an infinite loading screen. Will try again later though, love the idea!

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5yr ago

Jason Pancake

MoveBuddha

Maker

@thom_malone Thanks for the feedback, Thom. Sorry it wasn't working for you. If you're comfortable sharing the cities I'd be happy to check it out. You may also try some other nearby cities?

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5yr ago

Thom Malone

@jasonpancake yeah great call! I was trying out Sydney from Toronto. I'll try a few more examples right now though

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5yr ago

Jason Pancake

MoveBuddha

Maker

@thomasmalone I see the same issue for Toronto => Sydney. I'll check it out!

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5yr ago

Shavin Peiries

This is interesting! It might help to clarify the how much you make question by stating a month or a year. I also like that fact that you guys persist the data when you start over

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5yr ago

Ryan Carrigan

MoveBuddha

Maker

@shavin47 very true, I can see how that question is a bit confusing. We'll think about it a little more. Appreciate you trying out the tool.

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5yr ago

Shavin Peiries

@carriganisms Happy to help, congratulations on getting to the top 5!

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5yr ago