App · Product Designer · 2026
ConceptWhatsApp Find Flat & Flatmates
What if you could find a flat or flatmate directly inside WhatsApp? This is that concept.
Overview
A concept design for a flatmate and flat discovery feature built natively inside WhatsApp. The idea was to solve a real, messy problem - finding a place to live in India without asking people to download yet another app or trust yet another stranger on the internet. The trust infrastructure already exists inside WhatsApp. This concept just gives it structure.
Context
Finding a flat in India is still chaotic. You post in random Facebook groups, scroll through NoBroker listings, spam your college WhatsApp group hoping someone knows someone who's moving out. It works eventually, but it's exhausting and it relies entirely on who happens to see your message at the right time. I started thinking about why WhatsApp specifically made sense for this. Your contacts are already there. The trust is already there. You already ask your network for flat recommendations over chat, so this feature just makes that behaviour intentional and searchable. The design challenge was fitting this into WhatsApp's existing interaction patterns without it feeling foreign. No new UI paradigms, no onboarding flows, just a feature that feels like it was always meant to be there. I designed the full discovery flow, the listing creation experience, the filter system, and the handoff to chat, all within WhatsApp's design language.
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