This is an experimental project to build a “clean and simple” site where people can advertise and search for rented rooms/houses in a specified region of interest.
Searching for accommodation in cities like Bangalore and Bombay is a big pain, and we have experienced it many a time. The idea of building a clean site for the same has been brewing in my head for a long time, and finally I found some collaborators to work on this!
We hope that this site will solve the following problems –
- Often, a person new to a city, doesn’t know it’s geography and finds it difficult to look for houses in the close vicinity of her workplace.
- Many of the houses listed as available are occupied, but nobody really bothers to update the websites.
- The description given by owners often paints a rosier picture than reality.
- The contact work-flow doesn’t work well in many sites, requiring new login credentials for each site, lots of spam email of ads that aren’t very relevant, non-responsive advertisers, etc.
The code in this project is licensed under the 3-clause BSD License.