Tennda Student Housing
Tennda streamlines the often hazardous process of student room hunting. It gives university undergraduates verified off-campus hostel listings, verified landlord profiles, transparent pricing, distance to campus calculation, and roommate matchmaking.
Context & Friction
Students frequently fall victim to housing agent scams, inflated deposits, and insecure living accommodations in campus towns.
Architectural Response
A verified campus housing directory with verified landlord onboarding, interactive hostel media tours, search filters by institution, and vacancy alerts.
Key Engineering Decisions & Outcomes
Created university-specific filtering pipelines allowing students to filter hostels by campus gate proximity.
Designed an intuitive property onboarding flow for non-tech-savvy hostel landlords.
Implemented instant broadcast notifications for newly available student rooms.
Implementation Stack & Data Flow
Next.js frontend with Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL backend via Prisma ORM, and secure role-based access for students and property managers.