A small team of first-time entrepreneurs, HouzeMe turned to Arcweb Technologies not just for product design and development but also for collaborative mentorship and guidance. By uncovering critical user demographic and behavioral learnings and maintaining an iterative design and development process, Arcweb Technologies delivered to HouzeMe the right product for the right customers.
The demand for off-campus housing for college students across the country is large, guaranteed, and continuous. Despite those characteristics, there are very few resources available to college students to help them find and secure off-campus housing. Most schools don’t offer students any support for the transition from on-campus to off-campus housing and the few apartment locator websites that include a section for off-campus housing often focus on apartment complexes, totally ignoring independent landlords. Similarly, there are a handful of small scale operations geared towards the college market that include a combination of apartments and homes for rent, but they concentrate on limited geographies—and only one has a mobile app…
…Until HouzeMe, a web and iPhone app that connects college students looking to rent houses and apartments off campus to landlords seeking college student tenants.
Adhering to our belief in building the right product for the right problem, the Arcweb team, led a thorough Discovery & Design period to both qualitatively and quantitatively define the users and their desired behaviors, map out the user flows, sketch, develop wireframes and mocked up views. In close collaboration with the HouzeMe Cofounders, each element of the build was explored before a single line of code was written. So while speed-to-market was the name of the game, the HouzeMe team valued our perspective that said speed must be counterweighted by thoughtful research and planning.
After rigorous testing and documentation, HouzeMe had the right product, custom built for its specific users: students had their preferred iPhone app and property managers were equipped with a robust web app. Those use cases covered, both the iPhone app and web app were built for future cross-use feature development as property managers increasingly migrate to mobile and students take advantage of web-based features such as lease signing. Not only was the “quick to market” goal achieved, but it was done thoughtfully, thoroughly, transparently, and collaboratively.
Rapid User Growth
Since launch of the web app at the end of 2014, HouzeMe has seen triple digit month-over-month growth amongst its user base.
Increased Mobile Adoption
And since the launch of the HouzeMe iPhone app in early 2015, user growth has increased at a four digit rate.
Driving Business Growth
In addition to getting the product to market, Arcweb Technologies’ mentorship has helped HouzeMe build not just their product but their business as the team has since expanded to include five campus reps, an applications and software engineering lead, a business development lead, a marketing lead and three interns.
After rigorous testing and documentation, HouzeMe had the right product, custom built for its specific users: students had their preferred iPhone app and property managers were equipped with a robust web app. Those use cases covered, both the iPhone app and web app were built for future cross-use feature development as property managers increasingly migrate to mobile and students take advantage of web-based features such as lease signing. Not only was the “quick to market” goal achieved, but it was done thoughtfully, thoroughly, transparently, and collaboratively.
Since launch of the web app at the end of 2014, HouzeMe has seen triple digit month-over-month growth amongst its user base.
And since the launch of the HouzeMe iPhone app in early 2015, user growth has increased at a four digit rate.
In addition to getting the product to market, Arcweb Technologies’ mentorship has helped HouzeMe build not just their product but their business as the team has since expanded to include five campus reps, an applications and software engineering lead, a business development lead, a marketing lead and three interns.
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