What is Homes and Homies?
Find your perfect home share, flatmate, or people to search with. We're focused more on building a community rather than just bricks and mortar
Problem
Users struggle to find compatible flatmates or community-driven housing options through traditional platforms, leading to impersonal matches, mismatched lifestyles, and lack of social connections in shared living arrangements.
Solution
A community-focused housing platform that enables users to search for homes, flatmates, or co-searchers while prioritizing shared values and interests. Example: Users can filter matches by hobbies, lifestyle preferences, or group housing goals.
Customers
Young professionals, students, and digital nomads seeking affordable shared housing with like-minded individuals; urban renters prioritizing community over transactional roommate relationships.
Unique Features
Integrated social matching algorithm emphasizing lifestyle compatibility, group search collaboration tools, and community-building features like shared interest groups within the platform.
User Comments
Solves the coldness of traditional housing apps
Finally a platform where roommates feel like friends
Easier to organize group moves
Less spammy than Craigslist
Wish this existed when I moved cities
Traction
500+ Product Hunt upvotes within 24 hours of launch, 10k+ beta users reported during initial rollout phase, founder with 8.5k Twitter/X followers actively engaging housing communities
Market Size
Global shared housing market projected to reach $8.42 billion by 2028 (Grand View Research), with 44% of millennials open to co-living arrangements (Urban Land Institute).
