Why Roomcy exists
In most small and mid-sized Indian towns, finding a room or PG still means asking a broker, scrolling through WhatsApp groups, or calling a landlord's neighbour to check if a room is really available. It works, eventually — but it's slow, the information is often outdated, and brokers routinely charge a fee for information that should be free to check yourself.
Roomcy started as a listings app, and we learned the same thing brokers already knew: most renters don't want to scroll through a map and call a dozen numbers themselves — they just want to say what they need and have someone trustworthy go find it. So Roomcy Agents now do exactly that: a renter posts their requirement, an Agent searches, confirms the room is genuinely vacant, and sends it straight into the app's chat, first one free. No broker fee, no guesswork, and a live map so you can see your Agent is actually out there working on it.
And for landlords, nothing about listing a room, talking to interested renters directly, and keeping track of rent payments has changed — it still happens without juggling WhatsApp screenshots and a notebook.
We're still early — Roomcy is growing city by city, starting with our own home region, rather than claiming to be everywhere at once. If you're a landlord or renter in a city we haven't reached properly yet, listing or searching still works; you'll just find fewer rooms until more landlords in your area join.
Amit Kumar
Founder, Roomcy · Research Scholar, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand