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Helping OSU students find affordable housing

April 2025

Corvo Cribs

Team

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Luca Denhez

Designer, Developer

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Ally Chen

Designer, Artist

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Tristan Goehring

Designer, Developer

Tools

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React

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Next.js

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Figma

Aspects

Product Design

UX / UI Design

Full Stack Development

Context

CorvoCribs is a project I made with friends at Oregon State University's 2025 Hackathon: BeaverHacks. First years at OSU are typically required to live at university-owned dorms on campus. However, the majority of second-years and upperclassmen choose to live off campus in apartments or greek life housing as it is almost always cheaper than the on-campus equivalent. But we were sick of speding MONTHS constantly refrehsing Zillow, Craigslist, and FurnishedFinder. Apartments are competitive, and often the posts aren't accurate and don't reflect the real apartment.

Goal

Create a free tool for OSU students to make finding housing in Corvallis easier.

Existing Tools

It's true there are existing websites and apps such as Zillow, Redfin, FurnishedFinder, Craigslist, and Facebook Marketplace. But they have their faults.

Include

Constant feed of new apartments

Useful info like beds + baths, pet-friendly, parking, rent cost

Easy to find contact info

High quality photos

Leave Out

Old listings still shown

Nested links to apartment website, relator website, etc...

9 month lease not available despite being listed

Photos not actually of the one listed

Bad landlords

Game Plan

This was our plan to finish CorvoCribs in 24 hours.

Design friendly and intituive UI

Create Express + Node.js API to scrape posts from all providers

Add AI identification functionality to API

Link front-end to API

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