Apartment Sharing Website Development

The Flatmate Finder and Apartment Sharing Platform is a full-stack website built to connect users seeking housing, roommates, or shared rental opportunities. All users must register via email/password (with optional social login) and verify their email before accessing features. Each user completes a profile containing structured fields like age, occupation, gender, budget, lifestyle tags (e.g., smoker, clean, remote worker), preferred move-in date, and location preferences. all of which are reused across the platform to populate posts and support filtering. Users can create one of three post types: (1) Looking for a Room, (2) Offering a Room/Apartment, or (3) Team Up to Find a Place Together. Each post type has its own distinct form schema, validation, filters, and is rendered on a dedicated route (e.g., /looking, /offering, /team-up) with type-specific search and filter logic. Posts are tied to the user profile and contain both user data and post-specific fields (e.g., rent, address, photos, lease type, lifestyle of household, etc.). The Team Up feature allows users to create or join a group, which triggers the creation of a Group object that includes multiple users, a shared group profile (merged preferences, budget, etc.), a group chat, and a shared saved listings board. Messaging is handled in three modes: 1-on-1 (user to user), intra-team chat, and group-to-poster chat (where a team contacts a poster collectively). Users and teams can save listings, and team saves are synchronized across members. Admins can access a private dashboard with controls to manage users, posts, flag/report content, ban users, and view analytics like DAUs, search trends, and post volume. The recommended tech stack is React.js (frontend), Node.js + Express or Django (backend), PostgreSQL or MongoDB (database), Firebase Auth (auth/login), Cloudinary (for profile and post images), and Socket.io or Firebase Realtime for live messaging and team features.