Wrocław Students Build AI App to Match Roommates

Four students from Wrocław have launched an app meant to solve one of the most vexing problems in renting: finding a roommate you can actually stand living with. RentFriends uses artificial intelligence to match user profiles and automatically generate housing listings, and the project was developed as part of a university pre-incubation program.

Two Projects, One Product

RentFriends grew out of two independent ideas that came together during workshops held under the Grow Up Tech pre-incubation program, run by Wrocław University of Science and Technology's Academic Business Incubator. One team was working on a roommate-matching tool, while the other was already developing an app for managing household chores called Dyżury.app. Rather than compete for the same users, the participants decided to join forces.

The result is an app built around two modules. The first, described by its creators as a swipe mechanism modeled on dating apps, lets users browse profiles of potential roommates and housing listings, filtered by neighborhood, city and maximum rent. A match only happens once both sides express mutual interest, something the app's description calls the "wall" mechanism.

Where AI Comes In

The AI layer in RentFriends serves two functions. The first is automatic listing generation: users paste in a free-form description of an apartment, and the algorithm pulls out key details such as price, location and number of tenants, then builds a structured listing from them. The second is compatibility analysis of profiles based on lifestyle, cleanliness standards, sleep schedules and how often people socialize, which produces a percentage match score shown to users.

That sets RentFriends apart from classic listing sites, where matching happens mainly on price and square footage, leaving questions about a future roommate's character or habits to surface only after the lease is signed, often with unpleasant results.

From Chore Duty to Household Management

The app's second module, Manager, grew out of an earlier project, Dyżury.app, which won the most votes in the 2023 Rezydent Roku (Resident of the Year) competition's Innovation of the Year category. It currently lets users manage a household chore schedule with automatic task rotation and notifications. The creators say that by autumn 2026 the module will be expanded with features for splitting expenses among roommates and shared shopping lists.

The app can be browsed without creating an account; registration is only required after finding a first match or if a user wants to save their progress. The idea is to lower the barrier to entry, especially for students hunting for housing just before the start of the academic year.

What's Next

For now RentFriends operates only in Wrocław, but the team says it wants to expand to other Polish academic cities, where the challenge of finding a roommate and an apartment during the student season repeats every year. The creators are also seeking formal admission to PWr's full incubation program, which would give them access to further mentoring and financial support.

The project reflects a broader trend at Polish technical universities, where student teams are increasingly building commercial tools that apply language models to specific, local problems, rather than limiting themselves to theses or prototypes that go nowhere after graduation.