I built a rental app in about 2 days

I built a rental app in about 2 days

On August 24th, around 10 PM, I was thinking about a problem I had personally faced.

Finding a PG or a rental room is surprisingly difficult. You visit hostels, call owners, check to-lets, and many times you get the same answer: “We don't provide rooms for bachelors.”

I was facing this after vacating my hostel, and my friends were also constantly asking me if I knew about any available rooms.

I'm currently in Diwancheruvu, where a lot of students stay, and I couldn't find a simple digital way to discover available rooms and PGs.

So I thought:

What if owners could simply post their vacant rooms or PGs, and students could discover them and contact the owner directly?

That was the whole idea behind Rental App.

I thought about it for around 30 minutes.

At 11 PM, I started drawing the architecture.

Around 2 hours later, I had an MVP working without a cloud database.

The next day, I went to college and, ironically, our Software Engineering class was covering topics like the Waterfall model, prototyping, requirement analysis and software architecture.

I opened my laptop and started relating everything we were learning to the application I was actually building.

By lunch, I had connected the application to a cloud database and built a much better version.

That evening, instead of waiting, I went to a local boys' hostel, explained the idea to the hostel head, and asked if I could add their available rooms to the application.

He agreed and gave me access to the photos and information.

That night I made a few more changes.

The next morning at 5 AM, I started fixing bugs and submitted the app to the Play Store for review.

Now I'm adding actual rental and PG data around Rajahmundry and Diwancheruvu, where many students are looking for accommodation.

The interesting part for me isn't that I built an app quickly.

It's how the idea went from:

Problem → Idea → Architecture → MVP → Real-world validation → Database → Real users → Play Store

all within a very short period.

I'm still figuring things out, and there is a lot more to improve.

But this project reminded me of something I keep learning:

You don't always need to wait for the perfect idea, perfect plan, or perfect time.

Sometimes you just need to notice a problem and start building.

I'd love to hear from other indie hackers:

How do you validate a simple idea before spending too much time building it?