u/Beginning-Bowl-7858

Too lazy to type it out again, but who better test users than the ones in this group

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/s/yq21E1LUlV

Okay so here's what happened.

My agreement ended earlier this year and I spent about six weeks going through the usual circus - 99acres, MagicBricks, random Facebook groups, broker calls where the guy shows up 45 minutes late and the flat looks nothing like the photos. The whole thing was exhausting and weirdly dehumanizing. You're making one of the bigger decisions of your life and the tools feel like they were designed in 2009.

The thing that really got to me: I knew people in my building who were also looking to move. One couple wanted to downsize, another wanted to move to a different part of the city. Nobody had a good way to find each other. The idea of just... swapping homes with someone whose situation fits yours seemed so obvious, but there was no real platform for it.

So I built one.

It's called HomeSwap or Hinge for Housing. The idea is simple - instead of listing a property, you list your home and what you're looking for. If two people's situations match, they can like each other and connect directly. No brokers, no middlemen.

It works for both swaps (you want my place, I want yours) and regular rentals — but the swap angle is what I think is genuinely new.

What it has right now:

• Hinge-style discovery feed — scroll through listings, like a photo or a specific answer that resonates
• Prompts on each listing (things like "the best thing about waking up here is..." — yes, stolen from dating apps, and yes, it works)
• Filter by city, area, budget, size, building type
• Mutual match system — both parties have to like each other before a chat opens
• Direct chat once matched

Currently has listings for: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Noida, Gurgaon, and a few others.

I'm not trying to replace brokers for everyone — if you need someone to handle paperwork and negotiations, that's a different problem. This is for people who already know roughly what they want and just need a better way to find the right person.

It's live on the web right now: hinge-for-housing.vercel.app

I built this mostly solo over the past week #vibecoding, and it's very much a v1. There will be bugs. The UX probably has rough edges I've stopped noticing. That's exactly why I'm posting here before doing anything else - I'd rather hear "this doesn't make sense" from real people than ship a polished version of the wrong thing.

Specific things I'd love feedback on:

• Does the concept make sense to you immediately, or does it need more explaining?
• Would you actually use this, or does it feel like a solution looking for a problem?
• What's missing that would make it genuinely useful?

Drop a comment or DM me. If you want to be an early user I'll make sure you get a response personally.

Thanks for reading. And if you're also a renter in a major Indian city - solidarity. This city doesn't make it easy.

12:55 show at pvs. Haven't booked the tickets yet.