What does CoWaiting do?
It sends you an email whenever there’s new availability at a coliving, whether due to a cancellation or the coliving opening bookings for the first time.
To use it, simply:
- Select the coliving you want to get notified about. If you want notifications about multiple colivings, you can sign up multiple times.
- Select the time period you want notifications for. You will be notified about any new availability within the selected period, even if only part of the period becomes available.
- Optionally, choose to skip some notifications. Only get notified when specific rooms become available, or when there’s a minimum number of consecutive days available. This helps avoid notifications for periods you can’t book due to minimum booking requirements.
How does it work?
CoWaiting checks the public booking page of each coliving – the same website you would check for availability. Most colivings are checked every 20min, some are checked more often.
Who are you?
I’m Daniel. You can get in touch with me at [email protected].
Why did you build it?
CoWaiting is a passion project to:
- Help coliving owners by decreasing the impact of cancellations.
- Help coliving guests by being the first to know about cancellations, without manually checking colivings’ websites.
The origin story is that I wanted to go back to Nine Coliving (my first coliving experience) but there were no rooms available for the following 5 months. After spending a few days regularly checking their booking page, I thought it would be worthwhile to automate that. And of course it worked out that way.
Can I add my coliving?
Yes if:
- Your coliving has low availability during some periods. If most rooms are already available, there is no reason for people to sign up for availability notifications.
- You share your full availability calendar for all bookable rooms. CoWaiting will show the calendar publicly, as it does for all colivings.
- You use one of the supported systems: Sirvoy, BookingLayer, HBook, or an iCal feed. I might be able to integrate with other booking systems as long as it’s not much work.
Then get in touch at [email protected].
Does CoWaiting make any money?
No, CoWaiting is completely free. The running costs are currently small – I pay for hosting and spend a few hours per month fixing things that break.
At some point, I might consider charging for some features to cover my costs.
How many people use CoWaiting?
As of July 2024, since launching in March 2023, CoWaiting has had about 1,000 subscriptions and 550 unique users.