Custom Roommate Finder App Development

With increased urbanisation and increased female labour participation rates, cities in the western world are going through a transformation. As such many people are shifting to cities and living with roommates. As such, there is a great opportunity to connect roommates who can live with each other and the right properties for the right people. The target audience will be students, newly graduated youngsters, and those who are living away from their homes for jobs. 

We propose that a roommates finder app can be a good opportunity for your next custom app as it:

• Taps into a young market
• Can be used for both B2B and B2C ends for landlords and roommates.
• Integrates a quasi-social network type of arrangement into the app
• Relatively untapped market

Let’s discuss the feature of roommates finder app development

Features of Roommate Matching App

Users sign-up and login

Users can create their profile by email-id and password or use of social media accounts.

Filters

This feature allows users to find certain kinds of preferences such as budget type, room sharing, the type of home they are looking for, and the dates on which they are ready to move in. 

Search Roommates

With this feature, users can easily search for roommates by budget, the number of roommates, images of apartments, and the date of availability in the app.

Home Screen

It is one of the vital screens to finding roommates. Users can access all details of information through home screen app features like the apartments, owner’s profile, locations, amount of apartments, and many more.

Apartment screen

This is a major custom apartment screen feature, it provides all images of the available apartment for rent, different views, types, locations, and amount per month.

Edit Profile

As per recent needs, users can access their profile and modify it with a few clicks in the app. They can make the changes and save them.

Users Options

Under this feature, users can view nearby best roommates as per their interests or the apartments, then they can easily shortlist it and mail it to that co-person.

Shortlist for roommates

The users have the facility to look for different roommates as part of their preferences in the roommates’ app. This feature allows users to click on the add to shortlist option to shortlist the best matches, and later send them emails for further communication.

Chatbots

This feature enables easy communication between users who are looking for an apartment and owners/users who have put up his/her apartment details on the app.

Google Map

With the integrated google map feature users can view and bookmark the ideal and like images as well users can view the current location and discuss further details with the roommates finder app owner.

Monetization of Roommate Finder App

There are multiple ways to monetize the app such as taking a subscription fee, taking a commission of the rent, or providing eCommerce features and selling items that help people move into the new apartments.

The approximate technology stack of the app

• Kotlin for Android App
• Swift for ios app
• Node.js for back-end
• Cloud environment: AWS
• Online Payments: Paypal, & Braintree.
• Elastic email, email notifications
• Socket io for real-time notification
• Database: MongoDB, Hbase, Cassandra, Postgres, MailChimp Integration
• Google Maps
• Google Places
• Google Directions
• Card.io
• APNS
• Firebase
• Facebook SDK for Facebook login

Tech Stack and Team

The following team may be needed for app development

• Business Analyst
• Project Manager
• UI/UX designer
• Android/ios developer
• Back-end developer
• Quality Analyst
• DevOps

Conclusion

Developing a roommate finder app can be a successful idea for finding an ideal roommate, place, or apartment. In this blog, we have come up with a short guide and vital features of the roommate app. If you have an idea to develop a custom roommate finder app for startups, hire our expert app developers who can help you from consultation to the launch of the app. We have extensive experience in developing similar apps, drop us a line to discuss more.