Your building, connected
A mobile app that turns a residential building into an actual community — neighbours who talk, a marketplace to lend and share, light building-management tools, and a panic button that alerts everyone at once.
Industry
- Social & community
Type
- Mobile app
- iOS & Android
Services
- UI/UX design
- Mobile app development
Pillars
- Neighbour chat
- Building tools
- Classifieds
- Safety
What is Komuty for?
People can live in the same building for years and never meet. Komuty gives the residents of one building a private network — somewhere to talk, help each other, run the shared spaces and raise the alarm when it matters.
A private network for the people who share a building
Every feature is scoped to a single building. Neighbours message each other and organise into groups like owners or the residents' association, reserve common areas, post to a classifieds board and reach the whole building instantly in an emergency — all inside one app that a resident actually opens.
Neighbour networking
Chat & groupsDirect messaging plus building groups — owners, the homeowners' association, priority groups — so residents can reach the right people, not just broadcast to everyone.
- Building groups
- Direct messages
- Priority groups
Building management
Shared spacesA resident directory, common-area reservations and a reports channel, giving a building light self-management without a heavyweight admin portal.
- Directory
- Reservations
- Reports
Resident marketplace
ClassifiedsA classifieds board scoped to the building — lend a tool, give something away or sell it to a neighbour instead of a stranger across town.
- Willing to share
- For sale
Safety
Panic alertA press-and-hold panic button that alerts the whole building in a medical or safety emergency, backed by an alert history log.
- Instant alert
- Alert history
What does the app feel like to use?
Komuty is a phone app first, designed for quick, everyday taps between neighbours. Each screen below is a real screen from the product.
Neighbour chat & groups
Message a neighbour directly or post to a building group — owners, the residents' association, a floor — from one inbox.
Building & amenities
A floor-by-floor directory of who lives where, with shared spaces like the pool, gym and meeting rooms and their live status.
Lend, share & sell
A resident classifieds board for lending tools, giving things away or selling within the building rather than to strangers.
Community safety alert
Press and hold to raise a medical or safety alert that reaches the whole building instantly, with an alert history log.
What does a community app have to get right?
A social app for a physical community is not the same as a public social network. These held true across Komuty.
- Scope everything to the real group. A building network only feels safe because it is the building — not the neighbourhood, not the city, not the internet.
- Give people a reason to open it daily. Chat alone fades; pairing it with the marketplace, the shared spaces and safety keeps the app in the daily rhythm.
- Groups, not just a firehose. Owners, the association and floors need their own channels, or every message goes to everyone and people mute it.
- Make safety instant. An emergency feature has to work in one press under stress, not three taps through a menu.
- Design for the phone, in the moment. Residents use it standing in a lift or a hallway, so the screens have to be quick, thumb-first and forgiving.
- Respect that these are neighbours. The tone, the defaults and the privacy all have to suit people who will meet in the lobby tomorrow.
How long does it take to build a community app for iOS and Android?
An app of Komuty's shape — messaging, groups, a marketplace, building tools and a safety feature across both platforms — is a multi-month build rather than a few weeks. What moves the timeline most is real-time messaging, notifications and how much building-management depth is in scope. We usually ship a core social loop first, then layer the marketplace and management tools.
Why scope a social network to a single building?
Because the boundary is the value. A public network is noisy and anonymous; a building network is small, real and accountable, which is exactly what makes neighbours willing to chat, lend things and respond to an alert. Scoping every feature to one building is what turns a generic social feed into a community people trust.
What makes a safety or panic feature work?
It has to be instant and unambiguous under stress. Komuty's panic button is press-and-hold, alerts the whole building at once and keeps an alert history, so help comes from the people physically nearest rather than a distant call centre. The engineering that matters is reliable delivery of that notification, not the button itself.
How much does it cost to build an app like Komuty?
It depends on scope, and it cannot be quoted from a screenshot. The biggest cost drivers are real-time messaging, cross-platform delivery, and whether payments or deeper building management are included. Shanti Infosoft scopes it on a short call and returns a fixed quote rather than an open-ended estimate.
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