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Full Stack / Housing / Fintech
Home Matchmaker
A full-stack student housing platform with swipe-to-match discovery and automated in-app payments through M-Pesa.
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Product case study
Full Stack / Housing / Fintech01
Overview
Home Matchmaker combines swipe-to-match property discovery with student housing workflows and automated in-app payments through the M-Pesa Daraja API.
My role
- Product design
- Frontend development
- Backend integration
- Payment workflow design
Technology
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Product thinking
The challenge
What needed to become clearer.
Student housing search is highly visual but still depends on practical constraints, trust and a reliable payment path.
The approach
How the product took shape.
The product pairs lightweight, swipe-based discovery with structured property data and a connected payment workflow, keeping exploration quick while preserving important decision context.
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Key features
Built around the work people need to do.
- 01Swipe-to-match discovery
- 02Student housing listings
- 03Saved matches
- 04M-Pesa payment integration
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Selected screens
Interface, in context.
Open any screen to inspect the interface at a larger scale.
Visual documentation in progress
This case study currently focuses on product thinking, architecture and implementation detail.
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Project value
Outcome