What's New in HausFlow Roommate: Board Templates, Household Pulse, and More
Shared living coordination is one of those problems that looks simple until you're in it.
The group chat gets noisy. The fridge list disappears. Someone bought paper towels for months and nobody else noticed. The rent is due and half the house forgot. A new roommate moved in three weeks ago and still doesn't know where to find the landlord's number.
HausFlow Roommate was built for that gap. Here's what's been added recently.
One-Tap Board Shortcuts
The Board is where the household's open attention lives — tasks, supplies, guests, announcements, bills, packages. Getting things onto it used to require finding the right section and opening a form.
Now there are six quick-add chips at the top of the Board:
- 📦 Package In — tap once, it's logged
- 🛒 Need Supplies — goes straight to the supply form
- 👥 Guest Coming — goes straight to the guest form
- 💰 Bill Due — goes straight to the bill form
- 🔧 Maintenance — posts a notice instantly
- 📌 Reminder — goes straight to the announcement form
Two of them — Package In and Maintenance — post with a single tap and no form at all. The most common Board actions should take about two seconds.
"Need Help" — The Other Option
Every open task on the Board has two buttons now: Got This! and Need Help.
Got This! means what it always has: "I'll take care of it." The task is yours.
Need Help means: "I've seen this and I genuinely can't handle it right now." A flag goes up on the card so everyone else knows it needs attention. When someone claims it, the flag clears automatically.
This matters because not every shared-living friction comes from not caring — sometimes it comes from not knowing whether your roommate is handling something or waiting for you to. Need Help closes that gap without anyone having to ask.
The Board Cleans Itself
Three things now take care of themselves:
Guest notices — write a date like "Friday" or "June 15" or "tomorrow" and the notice auto-archives the morning after the event. No manually removing old guest posts.
Announcements — every announcement auto-expires after 14 days. Cards show a countdown so nothing disappears unexpectedly, but the Board does not accumulate old notices forever.
Picked-up packages — those have always disappeared on tap. No change there.
The Board should show what is open right now, not a history of everything ever posted.
Bills & Rent — Awareness Without Finance
The Board now has a Bills & Rent section.
It is not expense splitting. It is not a payment tracker. It is not Splitwise.
It is a visibility layer: post "Rent — Due 1st of month." Every roommate sees it. When someone handles it, they tap Marked Covered and the house knows. The event shows up in the Activity feed.
No amounts. No balances. No ledger. Just the awareness that the house needs to act on something.
The Activity Feed — Grouped by Day
The Activity tab has always been the household timeline — everything that's happened, in one place. It's now grouped by day.
Today at the top. Yesterday below it. Then Monday, then Sunday. Each day's events listed together so it reads as a natural log of the household, not a flat stream.
Got This! moments. Supplies grabbed. Packages picked up. Bills covered. Need Help flags. Everything visible, in context.
Activity is free. It is not behind a paywall. The whole point is that every roommate can see what's been happening without needing to ask.
House Agreements — Not Rules
The House tab has always had a section for shared expectations. It's been renamed from House Rules to House Agreements.
The difference is real. Rules are imposed. Agreements are decided together.
Quiet hours, guest policy, kitchen expectations, shared supplies — whatever the house has worked out. They live in the House tab, editable by any roommate, visible to everyone.
The Welcome Packet
When a new roommate joins, they need WiFi, parking details, the trash day, the landlord's number, and some sense of what the house has agreed to.
The Welcome Packet puts all of that in one screen. WiFi network and password, key contacts, parking, door code, trash day, and house agreements — pulled from whatever the household has already filled in.
Access it from More → Household → Welcome Packet. Send someone there on their first day.
Household Pulse — How Is the House Doing?
The home screen now shows a Household Pulse: Smooth, Busy, Worth a Reset, or Needs Attention.
It's based on how much is open across the whole house — open tasks, urgent supplies, pending bills, tasks flagged for help. A weighted read on the household's current load.
It's not a score. It's not ranking anyone. It's a shared signal that helps the house notice when things are starting to pile up before anyone has to say something out loud.
Tap it to go to Insights for a full breakdown.
Insights — Health Signals and Patterns
The Insights screen has grown beyond fairness tracking.
Household Health now surfaces four signals:
- Tasks sitting open for over a week
- Supplies flagged as urgent
- Bills not yet marked covered
- Tasks that have been flagged for help
The overall status — Smooth, Managing, Worth a Reset, Needs Attention — is always about the system, never about a person. "3 tasks sitting open for over a week" is a system observation. "Alex hasn't been pulling weight" is not something HausFlow will ever say.
Patterns draws observations from the last 90 days of household activity. Things like: one roommate has been handling most of the claimed tasks lately (a natural prompt to rotate), or supplies have been flagged frequently (a good case for a regular supply run). Not judgment. Just visibility.
The Recurring Tab — Shared, Permanent
The Recurring tab — Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Seasonal — now persists for the whole household. Add trash pickup, rent due, quarterly pest control, seasonal yard cleanup. Every roommate sees the same list. Change devices, move to a new phone, add a new roommate — the list is there.
What This Adds Up To
Shared living friction usually comes from information gaps, not bad intentions.
Nobody sent the group chat message about the package. Nobody knew the rent was due until the last minute. The new roommate asked about WiFi four times because nobody wrote it down anywhere.
What's been added recently is infrastructure for that gap:
- One-tap logging so things actually get posted
- Automatic clean-up so the Board stays current
- A shared pulse so the house can check in without a conversation
- A Welcome Packet so new roommates are oriented immediately
- Patterns that surface what's actually been happening
The philosophy does not change: visibility creates coordination. The updates just make the visibility easier to maintain.