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by brudgers
3728 days ago
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Based on the list of features, it's not clear who the core users will be. How will the competing interests of flat mates, service providers, neighbors, and land lords be reflected in the information flow? For example, there are categories of information that land lords and neighbors might find attractive to know about flat mates but that flat mates are not keen on sharing. Likewise, local vendors may wish to message flat mates in ways that flat mates find annoying or that land lords find at odds with their interests. Good luck. |
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We are building a platform that targets people who are living in a shared property. So tenants will be our core users. Once signing up, a user will either create a new group or join an existing one (invitation only - users won’t be able to discover other groups). The group represents the house and inside that group only the tenants can interact, chat, do social planning, etc. It is a private place, where all the interaction between the users will remain private and they can’t be reached by people outside the group. That’s the core part of our app.
Now the second part is the marketplace of tasks and services, where people that have some skills or can offer some services and want to get paid for that, can list themselves. You can think of it as something similar to TaskRabbit.
Why are we building that? Because while interacting with their flatmates, people may notice that need some help on house duties or other tasks. For example you may want a professional cleaner to take care of the house cleaning, or you may realise that you don’t have time to do the shopping and want to find someone locally that can buy what’s on your shopping list. In that case, you go to the marketplace and ‘book' a person that will accomplish your task.
Finally the landlord will also not have any access to tenants’ activity. However we want to make it easy for flatmates not only to communicate with him, but also to raise any issues occurred in the house, such as damages, so that the landlord can take care (or even him can go the marketplace and search for a handyman that will do the fixes). We haven’t done any work on the landlord’s side, yet. These are just some ideas.
So that’s all! Please let me know if you have any further questions.