u/aakarshraaj

hello guys.. i have been posting about RentNama on reddit on Pune channels. Since then, it has crossed 150+ first-hand rent reports from Pune. I have been obsessively working on it from past 3 weeks, so that response honestly meant a lot.

It's simply a platform where tenants can share their knowledge and also pass on their home to someone else when they leave.

more tenant share the better it gets for every tenant.

If you have already contributed, thank you.

hello guys.. i posted about RentNama here last week. Since then, it has crossed 100+ first-hand rent reports from Pune. I have been obsessively working on it from past 3 weeks, so that response honestly meant a lot.

I’ve now redesigned the web-app around societies given how the tenant community has responded. You can explore societies on feed, search for a society, see reported rents and ranges, and open the individual reports behind them.

I’m focusing on Hinjawadi, Wakad, Punawale, Tathawade, Baner and nearby areas. I’d rather collect 20 reports from one society than one report from 20 random places.

more people share the better it's get for every tenant.

If you contributed last time, thank you.

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Last week I posted about RentNama here, and honestly, I didn't expect Reddit to help me get past 100 firsthand rent reports from Pune.

I'm building this by myself, so getting that kind of response was pretty damn motivating.

It also made me realize something: the original version of RentNama was too empty to really show what I had in mind.

The idea was simple. Find your society, enter what you're actually paying, and if someone else has already reported that society, add your own report to it.

I wanted to build rent data society by society.

But with 5 reports here and 2 reports there, there wasn't much you could actually learn from it.

Now there is.

I just pushed a new society-first feed where you can browse societies, see the rent ranges people have reported, see how many renters have contributed, and dig into the actual reports behind the numbers.

And this is the part I'm most excited about.

One person's rent is just one person's experience.

20 reports start telling you something.

100 reports could tell you what that society actually costs to rent in a way that a broker's "going rate" never really can.

That's the thing I want RentNama to become.

A living rent history for every society.

You can watch a society you're interested in, see what people are actually paying, and eventually know when someone is planning to move out.

Maybe that 2BHK you were looking for becomes visible before it gets swallowed by the usual rental chaos.

For now I'm deliberately keeping the focus small: Hinjawadi, Punawale, Wakad, Tathawade, Baner, Balewadi and nearby West Pune.

I'd genuinely rather have one society with 50 useful reports than 50 random places with one report each.

So if you rent around here, try searching for your society on RentNama.in.

If it's not there, add it.

If it is there, add your rent.

And if you've already contributed thank you. Seriously. The whole thing only works if people are willing to share what they're actually paying.

Also, if the new feed is confusing, useless, missing something, tell me.

A lot of what I changed this week came directly from comments on the last post.

I originally created this for Pune. It’s a map where tenants can share the rent they actually pay, anonymously. I posted it in Pune, and a few people asked me to include Mumbai too, so here it is.

RentNama is now open for Mumbai. The idea is simple: before you rent a place, you shouldn’t have to rely only on listings, brokers, or asking multiple people about current rents. If tenants share their actual payments, that info will help future renters.

And the rent map is really just the starting point. I want you to eventually be able to watch a society you want to live in, know when a flat there is about to become available, and let outgoing tenants pass their place directly to the next tenant before it ever reaches brokers or property portals.

For now, If you’re renting, please add yours to the map. It takes about a minute.

Feel free to criticize if something seems off. The Pune users have already given their feedback.

Happy to chat :)

That’s ₹48,000 a year.

The owner knew. The broker knew. I didn’t.

The following tenant comes in with no knowledge at all.

an soo I built RentNama.

I'm akarsh and from past 3 weeks I've been working on RentNama, a shared, anonymous record of the amounts that renters in Pune actually pay.

You will most likely come to someone's aid even though you've never met them; hopefully, before making your next move, someone has already done the same for you.

It’s only just the beginning; if anything seems confusing, meaningless or unclear, please let me know in this message.

Edit:

A few people asked how the rent data can be trusted.

RentNama doesn’t treat one submission as the absolute truth. A society can eventually have dozens—or hundreds—of rent reports from different tenants. As more people contribute, the typical rent range becomes clearer, confidence increases, and incorrect or unusual entries become easier to identify as outliers. Can be reported and moderated out!

So the trust comes from participation: one report is a data point; many independent reports create a reliable picture.

This is only the starting point. Later, we may add anonymous reviews and optional, privacy-safe verification through rent agreements or payment documents. For now, the goal is simple: collect enough real reports that no renter has to negotiate using just one broker’s word.

Every flat hunt starts the same way: you ask the rent, get a number, and have no clue if it's the actual rent or just what someone thinks you'll pay.

So I built rentnama.in, a map where tenants share what they actually pay in rent and deposit. No asking prices, just real reported rents with report counts.

There's also a tenant-to-tenant move-out feature, so people can connect directly without brokers or endless finding if both agree.

It's still community-built, so if you're renting, adding your rent takes about a minute and helps make it more useful for everyone.

Happy to hear why this is a terrible idea too 🙂