Swift Living

What Swift Living does

Swift Living is a free, mobile-first web platform that helps students in Zurich find rooms and coordinate with roommates. The platform serves a single-city market in Switzerland, targeting students at ETH Zurich, UZH, and other local institutions, where approximately 40,000 students compete for only around 5,000 student rooms. It addresses core pain points in the search process: fragmented listings spread across 30-35 sources, lack of feedback on applications, and difficulty coordinating roommate selection among existing flat groups.

The product is built on Next.js with Kinde authentication and consists of six integrated features: SwiftList (a daily email aggregating listings from 30+ sources), a swipe-based Room Search interface, a Household Management module for collaborative applicant review, a Sharable Profile with view tracking, an Inbox for application status tracking, and a Listing Creation tool. The Household Management feature is the primary differentiator, allowing housemates to comment, react, vote on candidates, and manage selection as a group. Distribution is direct-to-consumer via the swiftliving.ch domain, supported by a Discord community, an educational blog on Zurich housing, Instagram and Facebook presence, and an official partnership with VSUZH (the University of Zurich student union).

The business model is currently free for all users, with no charges for posting, applying, or using platform tools. The company has explicitly stated it has no plans to charge for core rental platform services and instead intends to monetize in the future through moving services offered to users after they secure housing. The company is bootstrapped by founder Nick, a software engineer working in Zurich since 2018, and operates as a solo founder-led venture with no disclosed external funding, no revenue, and active recruitment underway.

Name

Swift Living

Legal name

Swift Living

Website

https://swiftliving.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Swift Living is a free, mobile-first web platform that helps students in Zurich find rooms and coordinate with roommates by aggregating listings from 30+ sources and offering collaborative household management tools. It serves ETH and UZH students in a single-city market and is monetizing-free, with future revenue planned through moving services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Student Housing Search Platform

NAICS

All Other Traveler Accommodation (721199)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Shared Student Apartments & Roommate-Matching Platforms (EDAIALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Student-Focused Co-Living (Flexible, Community-Led) (THAMAGAI), Off-Campus Shared Student Houses (Room-by-Room) (THAMAGAC)

Keywords

• Student housing platform
• Room rental search
• Roommate finder
• Household collaboration tools
• Rental listing aggregation

Headquarters

HQ city

Zurich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Current Free Platform: Platform is currently completely free for all users. No charges for posting rooms, applying to rooms, or using any tools. No plans to charge for core rental platform services.
2. Future Moving Services: Future monetization through moving services. Once users have found rooms through the platform, they will be positioned to purchase moving services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Swift Living is a free, mobile-first web platform that helps students in Zurich find rooms and coordinate roommate selection. It combines a swipe-based room search with SwiftList, a daily email that aggregates new listings from 30+ Zurich sources, plus household collaboration tools that let existing flat groups jointly review and react to applicants. All core rental platform features are provided at no cost to users.

Product overview

Swift Living is a student housing platform for Zurich that operates as a unified product with multiple integrated features. The core offering combines room discovery via a swipe-based search interface with collaborative household tools. Key products include SwiftList (a daily email aggregating 30+ housing sources), the Room Search platform, Household Management for group decision-making, Sharable Profile for applications, Inbox for tracking responses, and Listing Creation for posting rooms. All features work together within a single platform accessible via web and mobile.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SwiftList SwiftList is a daily email alert service that aggregates new room listings in Zurich from 30+ sources (35 per the SwiftList page) and delivers all new rooms to subscribers every 24 hours, targeting students who want early visibility into the Zurich housing market without manually checking multiple portals.
• Swift Living Room Search Room Search is a swipe-based room discovery interface on the Swift Living platform that lets students browse and apply to room listings across Zurich, designed mobile-first with keyboard controls on desktop for fast application workflows.
• Swift Living Sharable Profile Sharable Profile is a user profile feature that lets students include a consistent profile link in applications on other rental platforms, with view-tracking so they can see when landlords or housing groups have reviewed their profile.
• Swift Living Inbox (Applications Tracker) The Applications Inbox is a tracking inbox inside Swift Living that shows users who has viewed their applications, whether they have been shortlisted, and whether they have been invited for a viewing, so applicants know when to move on rather than waiting indefinitely.
• Swift Living Listing Creation Listing Creation is a tool on Swift Living that lets users post a room with public or private (shareable-link) visibility options, plus contract details and property information, enabling existing flat groups and individual tenants to advertise vacancies.

Quantifiable outcome

• Saves hours of searching by aggregating 30+ sources into one daily email
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• VSUZH (Verband der Studierenden der Universität Zürich)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerOfficial partnership with VSUZH student union to create the best room platform possible. VSUZH is the student union for UZH (University of Zurich). The partnership helps Swift Living reach ETH and UZH students directly. Website footer includes VSUZH logo and partner acknowledgment.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Spotahome: Mid-to-long-term rental platform with verified listings across Europe. Comparable on rental aggregation and tenant experience, though broader (not student-specific) and serves the same Swiss/DACH corridors.
• Erasmusu: Housing and community platform specifically for Erasmus/exchange students. Highly comparable target segment and use case to Swift Living's international-student segment, with similar aggregator + community features.
• Uniplaces: Booking marketplace for student housing across multiple European cities with verified listings and tenant support. Same target customer (students, especially international), same marketplace structure, and active in student-dense European metros.
• WG-Gesucht: Germany's largest roommate/shared-apartment platform. Closest functional analogue to Swift Living's roommate-matching model, with household-features, listings, and a similar freemium/paid-listing monetization approach across DACH.
• Nestpick: Global furnished-rental platform targeting students and young professionals. Overlaps on furnished mid-term rentals and the international-student audience, with a broader geographic footprint than Swift Living.
• HousingAnywhere: European rental platform for international students and young professionals. Directly comparable target audience (international/ERASMUS students), booking-based marketplace model, and explicit focus on student housing — overlapping Swift Living's exchange-student use case.
• Studapart: Student accommodation platform operating primarily in France with verified listings and student-focused services. Comparable audience and marketplace model, demonstrating a similar niche playbook in another European market.
• WGZimmer: Swiss marketplace for shared apartments (WGs) and rooms. Most direct Swiss competitor to Swift Living, focused on the same student/roommate segment in Switzerland, with a broader but similar listing-based model.

Emerging players

• Amber: Student housing platform operating across multiple countries with booking, financing, and support services. Comparable student-housing marketplace model, though focused on managed inventory vs. Swift Living's aggregator approach.

Broad incumbents

• Wunderflats: Extended-stay furnished rental platform active in Germany and Europe. Comparable on listings/aggregation for medium-term stays and overlaps on Zurich/DACH corridors, but caters to a broader professional audience rather than students specifically.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/swiftliving.ch

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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