HovelMatch.xyz

Family co-habitation matchmaking for the beautifully underfunded.

HovelMatch is a satire site for the era when dating apps feel too optimistic and the rent has started doing parkour. It imagines a plausibly real matching service where families find other families to share suspiciously affordable dwellings, negotiate soup logistics, and survive the economy with a little dignity and a lot of bunk-bed diplomacy.

Live domain: HovelMatch.xyz

What It Does

• Browse fictional household matches with compatibility scores.
• Filter by family size, hovel feature, and tolerance for "cozy."
• Calculate hovel viability using rent, people, and soup-pot adequacy.
• Generate a compatibility plea from an application form.
• Open a prefilled email using mailto: so the plea can be sent from the visitor's own email app.

The Vibe

Part fake startup, part economic coping mechanism, part "this could be a real YC application if the pitch deck used enough beige."

HovelMatch should feel like a legitimate product that made one deeply questionable assumption: that the housing market has become so strange that matching families into shared hovels now needs onboarding copy.

Project Structure

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├── CNAME        # Custom domain for GitHub Pages
├── index.html   # Site markup and form fields
├── script.js    # Match filtering, calculator, and email plea logic
└── styles.css   # Responsive layout, illustration, and app styling

Run Locally

Open index.html directly in a browser, or serve the folder locally:

python3 -m http.server 4173

Then visit:

http://localhost:4173/

Hosting

This is a static site, so it can be hosted anywhere that serves HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Current setup:

• Repository: github.com/worobi/HovelMatch.xyz
• Hosting target: GitHub Pages
• Custom domain: HovelMatch.xyz
• Source branch: master
• Source path: /

Domain Notes

For GitHub Pages apex-domain hosting, point the domain's A records at GitHub Pages:

185.199.108.153
185.199.109.153
185.199.110.153
185.199.111.153

For www, use:

CNAME www -> worobi.github.io

Email Form Note

The application form does not send email from a server. It builds a prefilled mailto: link and opens the visitor's email client. That keeps the site static and easy to host.

To support direct form submissions later, plug in a service such as Netlify Forms, Formspree, Basin, or a small serverless function.

Disclaimer

HovelMatch is satire.

The housing anxiety is, regrettably, market validated.