Engineering Studio Engineering Studio Real estate + community matching platform
Flatcake is a unique online platform that connects people looking for a new home, a flatmate, or both. Unlike traditional property listing sites, Flatcake empowers users to:
Search for properties, rooms, and potential flatmates
Post their own listings
Match with others interested in co-renting the same property
The platform is also designed for real estate professionals, who can post unlimited listings and directly communicate with potential tenants.
Kukarika has been the trusted partner for expanding and maintaining Flatcake’s growing ecosystem.
Flatcake is not a standard listings site. It is a community-driven rental marketplace with real-time messaging, group decision-making, professional accounts, and the trust requirements of a platform that handles introductions between strangers about where they will live.
Help people find compatible flatmates based on shared interests and lifestyle — then let them message instantly.
Multiple friends often hunt for the same flat together. They needed to explore listings, shortlist, and decide as a group.
Instant messaging, live activity, and instant notifications — the conversation flow has to feel like a chat app, not a website.
Individuals looking for a home and real-estate professionals running a business — two product experiences inside one platform.
Block-and-report controls, spam protection, account verification — the platform handles introductions between strangers.
Maps that work across every city and country Flatcake serves — accurate geocoding, clustering, and search-by-area.
GDPR cookie consent, social sign-in, password reset, and VAT handling for professional accounts.
A robust foundation that can grow with the user base and handle the messaging load of an active community.
A modern Symfony backend with a dedicated real-time stack, dual geocoding, two distinct product surfaces (individuals + professionals), a rich notification system, and a containerised deployment built to scale alongside the community.
A real-estate platform that behaves like a chat app, a community network, and a professional marketplace at the same time — without compromising on speed, safety, or scale.
By combining real-time communication, map-driven discovery, group decision-making, and professional tools — wrapped in a modern Symfony architecture built for scale — Kukarika helped Flatcake transform into a dynamic platform that goes beyond traditional real-estate websites. It is a digital ecosystem where people find not only homes, but also the right people to share them with — and where agencies run their rental business with the speed and polish of a chat-first product.