Scout by LayeredGeo
Flood, zoning and elevation on Australian property listings
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Details
- External ID
- 1278405
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Scout by LayeredGeo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Maps
Description
Scout is a Chrome extension for Australian home buyers. It adds a badge to each realestate.com.au listing showing council flood risk, flood history, elevation, zoning, heritage and bushfire flags. The mapping is public but spread across separate state and council portals, so most buyers never check it before an inspection. Scout reads the address and shows it on the listing. Covers Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Free to install with a 5-day trial, then $15 a month.
Enrichment
- Niche
- real estate and investment platforms
- Vertical
- Real estate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- property risk and zoning data for australian real estate
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Injecting badges into real estate listings via a Chrome extension is simple, but sourcing and harmonizing fragmented Australian council and state GIS datasets is a major spatial data challenge.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a Chrome extension coupled with a PostGIS geospatial backend. The hard component is building an automated ETL pipeline that continuously ingests, unifies, and polygon-indexes disparate WFS/WMS feeds, shapefiles, and flood/bushfire overlays across hundreds of local councils and state planning portals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 61 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 62 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- QReport · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I built a Red Flag Warning zone-check tool for the East Bay in 48h · hn · 2026-06-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I built a Red Flag Warning zone-check tool for the East Bay in 48h · hn · 2026-06-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Venturu · hn · 2025-11-11 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Listing Price Watch · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- StormWatch · hn · 2026-01-24 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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