we built the app we needed.
three bad roommate experiences. all from the same source.
“after my third bad roommate experience in bangalore, i knew the problem wasn’t bad luck. it was a broken process.”
hemanth mahesh · founder, matchpod
moving to bengaluru alone is the rite of passage for a generation — a new job, a new city, and a roommate decided by a craigslist post or a broker’s spreadsheet. the flat is the easy part. the person is what makes or breaks the year.
matchpod flips the order. we match on the things you actually have to live with — budget, sleep schedule, cleanliness, who has a room and who needs one — so the first message is to someone who already fits.
we’re building this in bengaluru, for bengaluru, with real users from koramangala, hsr layout, indiranagar, and whitefield. find your person first. the address follows.
values we don’t compromise on.
person before property
we match on the human first. the listing comes second, always.
safe by default
block, report and unmatch are first-class features, not buried settings.
local, not generic
built for hsr, indiranagar, koramangala. not a copy-paste of a us app.
honest, not salesy
we talk like a friend who’s done this — not a brochure.
from idea to live app.
2024
the idea
three bad roommate experiences in bengaluru. a broken process that no app had fixed. the idea for matchpod was born.
2025
the build
built expo react native on supabase. 9 months of onboarding flows, matching algorithms, realtime chat, and ios/android deployment.
2026
beta is live
google play internal testing and testflight both live. real users, real matches, real compatibility scores in bengaluru.
next
every city
mumbai, delhi, hyderabad, pune. every city where a 24-year-old is moving alone and looking for their person.