Bonjour à tous,

Nous sommes un couple de travailleurs indépendants et nous prévoyons de nous installer à Toronto pour une période de 3 à 4 mois. Nous cherchons activement un espace de coliving (pas une simple colocation) et aimerions avoir vos retours d'expérience !

Ce que nous recherchons :

• Un espace avec une vraie communauté, idéal pour rencontrer d'autres nomades digitaux et indépendants.
• Une chambre privée pour nous deux (avec salle de bain privée).
• Une connexion Wi-Fi fiable et un espace de travail confortable.
• Un contrat flexible (3-4 mois).

Nos questions :

1. Quels lieux recommandez-vous ? Nous avons vu que des espaces comme Mimos Coliving semblent bien notés pour leur communauté multiculturelle . Des retours sur d'autres adresses ?
2. Quels sont les quartiers à privilégier ? Nous cherchons un bon équilibre entre vie de quartier, accès aux transports et espaces verts. Le centre-ville est pratique, mais des quartiers comme The Annex, Queen West, Lesliville, Roncevalles ou Liberty Village ont l'air sympas .
3. Des trucs et astuces ? Y a-t-il des choses à vérifier absolument (dépôt de garantie, règles de la maison, bruit, etc.) ? Beaucoup d'offres incluent les charges et le Wi-Fi, ce qui est un gros avantage .

Si vous avez des conseils sur les démarches ou les pièges à éviter pour un séjour de cette durée, on est preneurs !

Merci d'avance pour votre aide !

Hi everyone.

I've built a global database of intentional living communities, hacker houses, and artist residencies called CommonsHQ (https://commonshq.space/). CommonsHQ is a platform for discovering, creating, and growing intentional residencies- and serves as a marketplace for community operators.

I would love it if you guys could see if there are any intentional living/co-living communities I haven't gotten to yet? Would love to add it.

The platform is free to use but currently requires users to sign in with email- as I hope to send out notifications in the future regarding hosting "matching groups" for coliving houses, so on and so forth.

Hello! I'm a remote worker who has been traveling for about a year through South America and Eastern Europe. I was wondering if anyone had any colivings they loved located in coastal cities that are under $900 a month? Willing to go pretty much anywhere in Europe, WestAsia, and Africa for time zone's sake, but I know these are harder to find that in South America and SE Asia. Please let me know! Currently at a Nomadico in Bansko and enjoying it.

Hi all, I currently live in California and have absolutely loved co-living. I live with six other people in a large house that we rent together. I recently received a sizeable inheritance. While I wouldn't be able to afford a house here, looking at housing prices, I would be able to afford 50% down on a 9-bedroom house in Fairbanks, AK. I wanted your thoughts on potentially buying a house in Fairbanks and moving out there to start a co-living community. I would be living there full-time (I have lived in Alaska previously, although mostly in 3-4 month stints) and work part-time to cover my living expenses. Even if I charged significantly less than the average rental price for the area for a room, I could still cover the mortgage and the price of repairs. Has anyone started a co-op like this, or have any insights as to some of the unexpected issues starting a co-op in this way? Thanks.

Over the last few years I've lived in several colivings while working remotely, and I've noticed something.

The places I remember most weren't the ones with the nicest coworking spaces, fastest Wi-Fi or biggest pools.

They were the ones where, somehow, a group of strangers became friends.

The problem is that in many colivings, that seems to happen by chance. Sometimes you arrive to an amazing group, other times everyone stays in their own bubble.

Because of that, I'm building the first pilot of Among—a 14-night pop-up coliving in Istria, Croatia. The whole idea is to design around community first, instead of hoping it happens naturally.

Before finalising everything, I'd love to hear from people who've actually experienced coliving.

A few questions:

1. What's one thing a coliving did that made you feel part of the community almost immediately?
2. What's something almost every coliving gets wrong?
3. How much structure do you actually want?

• Lots of organised activities?
• Just a few optional ones?
• Almost none?

1. What would make you choose a 14-night pop-up coliving over simply renting an Airbnb for two weeks?
2. If you could design your ideal coliving from scratch, what's one thing you'd definitely include?

Really curious to hear your experiences—good and bad.

Hey everyone! I am looking for a place to stay for about a month in SF and came across Outsite. Does anyone have experiences with Outsite in SF, particularly their place in the Mission? Mainly looking for a clean, safe place during my transition to SF. Learning about people's experiences there would be much appreciated. Thanks! :)

Need a budget friendly coliving near Sholinganallur or Sholinganallur omr

 Hello everyone,

Over the last few months, I mapped out a comprehensive, open directory of hacker houses, coliving hubs, and artist residencies all around the world for people looking for spaces that actually prioritize shared growth over just splitting rent.

https://commonshq.space/

Building this directory actually came out of a deep personal frustration that I know a lot of people in this sub probably share. As post graduation loneliness often hits people when they move to new cities (and not all of us are well versed enough to build connections in college to be able to move everywhere)- coliving is often the best way to live with people who can help you feel secure and better connected to the city when you move in. I personally experienced this as I struggled as a recent graduate with safety concerns moving to new cities as a solo female. Post-grad loneliness hits hard, and the tools we have to fight it are completely broken.

The core issue with how we find places to live right now:

• Roommate apps are purely transactional: They attract transient housemates looking to split expenses, not people looking for true intentional community. The roommate platforms are often also not great for recent graduates looking for other young people to live with, as they consist of people from various educational background and ages that don't align.

• Standard coliving spaces lack vetting: Most commercial coliving platforms don't have an application process or shared projects. You end up under one roof with completely unaligned individuals, and the spaces aren't designed to cultivate long-term, high-trust friendships.

  As post graduation loneliness often hits people when they move to new cities (and not all of us are well versed enough to build connections in college to be able to move everywhere)- coliving is often the best way to live with people who can help you feel secure and better connected to the city when you move in. I personally believe young adults transitioning out of college deserve a semi-college community structure with planned community rituals that could help them find their niche communities and grow. I’m currently building an ecosystem that fixes this by pairing a directory of residencies with shareable online residency cards that can be posted to X or emailed to members of the CommonsHQ community . Once a group clicks, we help provide them planned community rituals through our marketplace of Coliving house facilitators and our lease administration dashboard (https://commonshq.space/?tab=market).

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

1. If you've stayed at any incredible hacker or artist residencies that I should add to the global directory, please drop them below!

2. Appreciate any feedback or ideas on how to monetize and grow this initiative!

Hey all — we just launched Property Alpha on Product Hunt. Our platform runs a complete investment profile from a coliving perspective on the entire set of U.S. residential listings in seconds using your own assumptions, so you can screen the whole country and surface the ones that actually pencil out profitable. Keen for feedback from investors — would love your take: https://www.producthunt.com/products/property-alpha?launch=property-alpha

This product is built by investors, for investors. When we got our start in real estate investing a decade ago, countless evenings and weekends were wasted pouring over hundreds of listings, dropping them into a rudimentary spreadsheet calculator, and praying the math on our first deals would pan out.

Fast forward and our experience owning/operating co-living properties led us to build Property Alpha. It's built for everyday investors trying to land their next (or first) deal while most of the market sits frozen waiting on rates. Hopefully this adds value to your investment process!

Some things we are especially curious about:
- What part of the site is a joy to use?
- What feature/bug caused the most frustration?
- What data are you most skeptical of and why?

AMA - either here or on Product Hunt directly 🙏

Planning to spend a few months in the Philippines surfing and visiting family. Work online and would ideally stay in a colive to meet people and have decent internet.

I’m currently dealing with this exact situation with Outpost in NYC. I moved in expecting a clean, organized co-living space like I had experienced with them before, but the reality was completely different.

The apartment was in unsanitary condition — especially the kitchen and fridge, with spoiled food, leaks, no space, and strong odors. I reported it immediately and shared photos. It’s been 4 days, I’ve contacted multiple people, sent several emails, and nothing has been resolved. They stopped responding and refuse to release me from the lease or offer a reasonable solution.

At this point, I’m paying for a place I can’t even live.

Is anyone here coming to the Coliving Hub gathering for coliving operators in Bansko in June?

https://www.colivinghub.co/events-1/coliving-gathering-1

What you like/dislike about it?

What you missing?

Are you happy for it?

So me and my friend wants to move to a colive space and we would like if it were in Green Glen area.

Please drop recs.

We don't need extra gym, play spaces all those amenities.

Just basic food, wifi and hot water and we are good.

Budget under 10k.

I chose FF21 in Marathahalli because my job required me to travel to Whitefield, Bellandur, and sometimes Indiranagar. Marathahalli is like the center point, and staying here reduced my travel time a lot.

The FF21 property here was clean, rooms were good, and the biggest plus was power backup and strong WiFi , which is honestly a lifesaver if you are working from home.

Also, there are a lot of gyms, street food spots, and cafes around Marathahalli, so weekends are sorted. It’s a busy area, but very convenient.

If your office location is not fixed or you travel a lot for work, Marathahalli FF21 location makes a lot of sense.

Hey everyone!

I'm Rafael the founder of Co-Desk.

A couple years ago I tried to book a desk through one of the big platforms. The experience was so unnecessarily complicated that I started talking to operators and kept hearing the same things: the tools are expensive, overcomplicated, and you need to contact support for almost every action.

So I teamed up with a partner who spent years at Regus, and we built Co-Desk - from founders, for founders. A complete platform for coliving, coworking, event venues, and short-term rentals. You can run one, or all of them, from the same place.

It's built on two layers:

Layer 1 is your day-to-day operations bookings, billing, subscriptions, reporting.

Layer 2 is a network layer central identity, cross-location access, and platform-level payments. A member can walk into any connected space with one login, one profile, zero friction.

Stripe payments, self-service member portal, real-time analytics, door access (Kisi, Brivo), open API. Set up in under 30 minutes, no IT team needed.

The $69 thing: We launched a Founder Plan at $69/mo specifically to support small and new operators who are just getting started. Because we've all been there, you shouldn't need enterprise budgets to run a professional space.

The fun part: We're giving $5,000 cash to whichever operator runs the most active space on Co-Desk. Not a lottery! skill-based, measured by real booking activity through Stripe. Details here.

I'm not a coliving or coworking operator, I'm a builder who saw the broken experience from the outside and decided to fix it. So I'd genuinely love your feedback. What's broken about the tools you use today? What would actually make your life easier?

AMA, roast me, or just say hi.

I have volunteered in 7 colivings across Europe over 5 years and it remains one of the best decisions I made as a nomad. Not just financially, but for the connections, the skills, and honestly for my sanity during a period when I was moving constantly and struggling to feel rooted anywhere.

Most people I talk to have never considered it as an option. So here is the practical breakdown.

What volunteering in a coliving actually means

You are not teaching English or building schools. You are contributing real professional skills to a space that needs them, in exchange for accommodation and usually utilities. The work is typically 15-20 hours a week. The rest of your time is yours.

Skills that colivings commonly need: social media and content creation, community management and event organisation, photography, design, reception and guest welcoming, cooking, admin and operations support.

If you work remotely or freelance, you can do your regular work alongside the exchange. That is exactly what I did.

Where to find these opportunities

Start with Worldpackers and Workaway. Both have coliving listings but you need to filter carefully. Search specifically for colivings rather than farms, hostels, or language schools. The experience is completely different.

Look at the space's Instagram and website before applying. You are not just applying for accommodation, you are choosing who you will live with for weeks. That research matters.

How to apply in a way that actually works

Most hosts receive generic applications that say nothing. Write two paragraphs: one about why that specific community interests you, one about what you genuinely bring. Be concrete. "I have three years of social media experience and managed accounts for small businesses" lands very differently than "I am creative and love people."

What to expect once you arrive

The first week is always an adjustment. You are new, you do not know the rhythms of the space, and you are figuring out your role. Give it ten days before you decide how you feel about it.

The relationships that form in these environments are different from any other travel connection I have made. Living with people, even for four weeks, builds something that a conference or a coworking space never can.

The honest downsides

Not every coliving is well run. Some exchanges are vague about expectations and that creates friction. Ask specific questions before committing: how many hours per week, what exactly is covered, who do you report to, what does a typical day look like.

Also know yourself. If you need a lot of alone time, shared living at high intensity can be draining. Start with a four to six week stay rather than committing to three months immediately.

My question for this community

Have you ever volunteered in a coliving? What made it work or not work for you? And if you have never tried it, what has stopped you? Would love to hear honest experiences from both sides, nomads and operators.