StayMatch - Open Source Roommate Compatibility Platform
Students and working professionals moving to new cities struggle to find not just accommodation, but compatible roommates. Current methods like brokers, social media groups, or random allocation focus only on room availability and ignore lifestyle compatibility. This often leads to conflicts due to differences in habits, schedules, cleanliness, food preferences, and budget expectations. There is a need for a structured, database-driven platform that integrates accommodation listing with roommate compatibility matching to ensure a smoother and more harmonious shared living experience.
Nowadays, many students and working professionals move to new cities for studies or jobs. One of the biggest challenges they face is finding a suitable hostel or PG and a roommate who matches their lifestyle. Most people depend on brokers, social media groups, or random roommate allocation. Because of this, they often end up facing problems like lifestyle clashes, cleanliness issues, financial misunderstandings, or differences in daily habits. Right now, there is no proper system that checks whether two people are actually compatible before they share a room. Differences in sleep schedules, smoking or drinking habits, food preferences, and budget expectations can easily lead to conflicts. This project aims to make this process more organized and reliable by creating a web-based platform that stores user preferences and calculates compatibility between roommates. By using a structured database system, the platform can manage data properly and suggest better matches, helping users avoid unnecessary conflicts and have a smoother accommodation experience.