This is pretty high level thinking, but the motivations you outlined for co-living resonate so much
- Structurally overcome feelings of isolation
- Decrease my housing costs (financial, effort, time)
I love Chore Wheel’s focus on making #2 a reality – I can see it as the “OS” for managed co-living that feels natural and easy.
For #1, I tend to engineer this through activities, but it requires so much intentional motivation to make it happen. I wonder if there’s an interesting opportunity there.
For example, I’ve integrated myself into the NYC surfing community and engage casually with this community every time I participate in the activity.
This doesn’t seem unique – co-living situations based on interest seem to dominate college campuses – houses exist for people who love to dance, are international students, are into engineering, are part of the same greek life organization, are sober, etc. etc.
However, I can’t filter based on resident interest on StreetEasy 🤣 Why? There are housing boards that exist that generally align folks with a vibe (i.e. listings project which aimed to connect creatives to affordable housing), and individual groups (like those out of Fractal, or even FB groups to find roomates) who help folks go through with this.
Apart from these groups being a fascinating distribution platform for Chore Wheel (i.e. how could Chore Wheel help manage the initial "looking for housemates" convo to create initial exposure to the tool?), I wonder if there’s something interesting around some merge between co-living, co-working, and hobby meetups?
That's funny you should mention that -- when I graduated Flatiron School in 2014 (OG NYC coding bootcamp) my buddy and I were talking about starting a website for co-op listings. We were going to call it crunchy.co or something like that. Never happened sadly.
I like the idea of a room-share board as a distribution technique. Might be a bit complicated for me to tackle solo but definitely something to keep in mind. Maybe some kind of service run through the Fractal discord?
This is pretty high level thinking, but the motivations you outlined for co-living resonate so much
- Structurally overcome feelings of isolation
- Decrease my housing costs (financial, effort, time)
I love Chore Wheel’s focus on making #2 a reality – I can see it as the “OS” for managed co-living that feels natural and easy.
For #1, I tend to engineer this through activities, but it requires so much intentional motivation to make it happen. I wonder if there’s an interesting opportunity there.
For example, I’ve integrated myself into the NYC surfing community and engage casually with this community every time I participate in the activity.
This doesn’t seem unique – co-living situations based on interest seem to dominate college campuses – houses exist for people who love to dance, are international students, are into engineering, are part of the same greek life organization, are sober, etc. etc.
However, I can’t filter based on resident interest on StreetEasy 🤣 Why? There are housing boards that exist that generally align folks with a vibe (i.e. listings project which aimed to connect creatives to affordable housing), and individual groups (like those out of Fractal, or even FB groups to find roomates) who help folks go through with this.
Apart from these groups being a fascinating distribution platform for Chore Wheel (i.e. how could Chore Wheel help manage the initial "looking for housemates" convo to create initial exposure to the tool?), I wonder if there’s something interesting around some merge between co-living, co-working, and hobby meetups?
That's funny you should mention that -- when I graduated Flatiron School in 2014 (OG NYC coding bootcamp) my buddy and I were talking about starting a website for co-op listings. We were going to call it crunchy.co or something like that. Never happened sadly.
I like the idea of a room-share board as a distribution technique. Might be a bit complicated for me to tackle solo but definitely something to keep in mind. Maybe some kind of service run through the Fractal discord?
we attempted to aggregate the better coliving directories on Supernuclear here fwiw: https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/directory-of-coliving-directories