Shared housing can be a viable option for people that face housing insecurities. And while we want to assist in providing homes for the most vulnerable, we focus on a more financially stable user base. We are creating an AAMFH (almost automated marketplace for housing) on Cardano.
The main tenant of a housing unit can create a listing, providing info about themself, the home, and the available room(s).
Room-seeking users also have a tenant profile and needs, preferences, dislikes, and deal breakers.
Unlike the craigslists, users do not have to find each other, but high quality matches (based on self-reported data) are promptly presented to the room-seekers to take action to rent a room.
Rent payments are - of course - made on Cardano using ADA for now, but hopefully with Djed soon.
We hope that shac.ai will be especially useful for digital nomads.
To ease frequent subletting, we will build a reputation system that uses blockchain data from the temporary tenants, while building out a more traditional rating system to identify trustworthiness of main tenants.
In the case of disputes, we provide an integration into mediation services through mediators.ai (launch in Q2 2022) and may even provide proactive communication training through ombuds.ai.
With this proposal, we are addressing this guiding question:
- What needs do users of Cardano have that could be solved by new applications?
Once Djed is integrated into the dapp, we believe that the implemented solution will attract new users to shac.ai and Cardano.
This proposal integrates with other Project Catalyst proposals: adatar.me (proposal: Gravatar for ADA Wallets) and mediators.ai (launch in Q2 2022, proposal: Win-Win Dispute Resolution).
No risk as the team has built a more complex shared housing application before. For main adoption, Djed should be ready.