HausFlow Roommate Edition
HausFlow Roommate is built for adults who share a home and want to coordinate without the friction, resentment, or group chat chaos.
There is no parent. No child. No boss. No penalty. Just roommates who need to know what's going on.
Visibility Creates Coordination. Everyone Inputs. Everyone Sees. Everyone Helps.
Who It's For
- Roommates in apartments and shared houses
- Co-living households
- Adult housemates managing shared tasks, supplies, bills, and expectations
What You Get
A Shared Board That Actually Stays Up to Date
The Board is the household heartbeat. Everything posted is visible to all roommates — in real time, on every device.
One tap to log the common things. Six quick-add chips at the top: Package In, Need Supplies, Guest Coming, Bill Due, Maintenance, Reminder. No searching for the right section.
Open Tasks — See what the household needs done. Tap Got This! to own a task. Tap Need Help if you've seen it but genuinely can't handle it — a flag goes up so someone else knows to step in.
Supplies — Flag items running low (Running Low, Need More, Out). When someone handles it, they tap I'll Grab It and it comes off the list.
Guests — Post a notice so all roommates know who's coming and when. It auto-cleans itself the morning after the event — no manual removing.
Announcements — Landlord inspection, water shutoff, rent reminder. Post it once, everyone sees it. It disappears on its own after 14 days. You can see the countdown on the card.
Bills & Rent — Not bill splitting. Not tracking who paid what. Just awareness. Post "Rent — Due 1st of month." When someone handles it, they tap Marked Covered. The whole house sees it. Done.
Packages — Log a delivery so roommates know something's waiting. Tap Picked Up when it's gone.
A Household Pulse That Tells You How Things Are Going
The home screen shows a Household Pulse — a simple status based on how much is open across the whole house. Smooth, Busy, Worth a Reset, or Needs Attention.
It's not a score. It's not ranking anyone. It's just a read on whether the house is running light or starting to pile up. Tap it to see a full breakdown in Insights.
An Activity Feed So You Always Know What Happened
Everything that happens around the household shows up in the Activity tab — grouped by day.
Got This! moments. Supplies grabbed. Packages picked up. Bills covered. Tasks completed. Even Need Help flags.
Today. Yesterday. Monday. The whole household timeline in one place, without needing to text anyone.
A House Tab That's Actually Useful
One place for everything the household needs to know:
- WiFi network and password
- Trash day, recycling day, lease renewal date
- Parking details, mailbox combo, door code
- Building info — floor, unit, buzzer
- Shared Contacts — landlord, property manager, maintenance, emergency contact, utilities
- House Agreements — quiet hours, guest policy, kitchen expectations. Adult-to-adult. Not rules someone imposed. Agreements the house actually made.
- Household Notes — quick info that isn't a task
Any roommate can update any field. Changes show up for everyone immediately. No group chat thread needed.
A Welcome Packet for New Roommates
When someone new joins, they shouldn't have to track down WiFi passwords and landlord numbers from six different people. The Welcome Packet puts it all in one screen — WiFi, parking, trash day, key contacts, and house agreements. Find it under More → Household.
Insights That Show the Big Picture Without Scorekeeping
The Insights screen shows how visible work is distributed across the household — without turning it into a competition.
Household health signals surface things like tasks sitting open too long, urgent supplies, pending bills, and tasks that need help. The language is always about the system: "Worth a Reset" — never "Sarah isn't doing enough."
Patterns surface plain observations from the last 90 days: who's been handling most of the claimed tasks, how often supplies are getting flagged, whether the house is in a good rhythm or starting to drift.
No leaderboard. No percentages per person. Just useful visibility.
Recurring Items That Stick Around
Add your regular household operations — trash day, rent due, filter changes, seasonal yard work — and they stay for every roommate to see. Add them once, and the whole house knows.
How It Works
Get Started
- Download HausFlow Roommate
- Enter your first name and create (or join) a household
- Set your House Rhythm — how the house wants to handle fairness, proof, and quiet hours
- Optionally add starter tasks
- Share your invite code so roommates can join
The whole setup takes under two minutes.
Join an Existing Household
- Download the app
- Enter your name and select "Join an existing household"
- Enter the
HF-XXXXinvite code your roommate shared - Land directly on the shared Board
House Rhythm
During onboarding, the household picks shared defaults:
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Fairness mode | How the house thinks about balancing visible work |
| Proof preference | Whether completing a task requires a photo or not |
| Quiet hours | When the app respects sleep time and avoids sending alerts |
These aren't rules. They're starting points so everyone is on the same page before frustration builds.
What Roommate Will Never Do
HausFlow Roommate is not trying to become every household app. Some things are intentionally out of scope:
| What it won't do | Why |
|---|---|
| Split expenses or track payments | That's Splitwise. We're not building that. |
| Rank roommates on a leaderboard | Turns coordination into competition |
| Use shame language | No one does better under pressure |
| Send reminders just to drive app engagement | Quiet by default |
| Replace group chat | People already have text |
The product question for every feature is: does this improve visibility, awareness, ownership, or coordination? If not, it doesn't belong.
The Philosophy
Shared living usually starts with goodwill and vague expectations. People agree the kitchen should stay usable. Everyone assumes packages will be noticed. No one expects to have a conversation about whose turn it is to buy dish soap.
Then real life begins.
The issue is rarely that roommates don't care. The issue is that shared homes run on memory, tolerance, and private resentment instead of a visible shared layer.
HausFlow Roommate is that shared layer — built for adults who are equals, not for adults pretending one of them is the parent.
Less Friction. More Flow.