Colivium helps digital nomads and remote workers find colivings with strong communities. It goes beyond amenity checklists to reveal what matters:
🤝 Community: Analysis of hundreds of guest reviews to uncover whether guests form real friendships, how hosts facilitate connection, whether spaces naturally bring people together.
💻 Necessities: Detailed assessments of working conditions (dedicated quiet spaces, call rooms, reliable internet), self-catering setups (kitchen equipment, cooking together dynamics), and sleep quality – the fundamentals that make or break a stay.
✨ Character: What makes each coliving unique through the activities guests usually participate in, character of the location, stories of the people running the space.
Launching with ~40 colivings and focussing on Europe, but expanding soon!
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Hi everyone!
I’m a freelance software developer and coliving enthusiast. Since 2021, I spend ~half of every year in colivings.
I built Colivium to evaluate colivings according to what most digital nomads look for – to have community, a space designed for community, good working conditions, alongside the standard necessities that you'd expect from any accommodation.
Colivium consolidates information from reviews, websites, Google Maps, and creates detailed profiles – extracting patterns of what guests say (and what they don't!), common activities, stories and motivations of the founders, and much more.
I built this because I find it frustrating that the coliving market is dominated by places that are little more than house shares with strangers. Figuring out which places have good community is hard – many have 5-star ratings because guests have low expectations. To find a great coliving, you need to read between the lines of reviews.
I've been running a waitlist service for popular colivings (cowaiting.net) for almost 3 years. Having more information was the most requested feature.
If you're a digital nomad or remote worker, I'm curious about:
- Any colivings you've been to and liked
- What information you need to decide on a coliving
👉 Check us out at colivium.co and share your feedback!
Hi Daniel, I think this is a great idea! As a fellow coliving enthusiast, I totally understand the sentiment. I've been to many colivings and it really grinds my gears when I go to one that offers community but then I arrive there and that isn't the case. That is why I've created a course on how to be a community facilitator for coliving spaces (colivingeducation.com).
I have some suggestions, if you don't mind :)
I believe that community facilitators are the core of the community for each coliving space and they should be proudly displayed front and center so that a potential resident can see who they will be interacting with on a regular basis. Have you considered adding a "meet your community facilitator" section for each coliving space? Going even further, I think it will really differentiate your site from the rest if you have functionality where community facilitators can create profiles on the site and add themselves to the coliving space that they are currently facilitating. This would allow a CF to build trust and credibility in the coliving space by showing how much experience they have and where they have it in relation to community facilitation. A coliving space, in turn, will be able to find potential facilitators that they can reach out to and offer positions as a CF in their coliving space. As a final note, these CF pages can even show a badge for CFs that have completed my course to further differentiate themselves and show more credibility. If you're looking to collaborate, we can work something out where you can drive traffic from colivium to colivingeducation so that your site helps highlight trained CFs which will ultimately help residents have the best coliving experiences. Looking forward to your reply, cheers.
Hi Johnny, nice project!
Yes I agree that facilitators are very important – the great ones often get followed by guests whatever coliving they end up at. They are already featured near the top of the page of every coliving, and I try to extract their personal story verbatim, so it’s their own voice.
I’m doing my best to only list the people that are actually present day-to-day, but this information unfortunately rarely listed anywhere.
About your feature suggestion: this sounds like a platform to match coliving operators with facilitators? What's the problem how it's done today, treating it like a standard job application: facilitators share their experience + past colivings and the coliving operator can check their references?
I was thinking about something related though: whether the “coliving experience” could scale more easily if instead of guests booking spaces, they booked facilitators. This is the "retreat" approach basically, but you'd need to solve the problem of finding spaces.
Yes you're right, it could serve a similar purpose as a CV and operators would be able to more easily find suitable facilitators but that would be more of a nice little added benefit. The main idea is for it to be specific to coliving community facilitation by allowing a facilitator to input information like what type of events they have experience in or like hosting, what kind of training they may have, maybe testimonials from previous coliving related work, and where they will be facilitating in the future so that potential residents can make plans to join them at the same coliving (kinda like your idea of booking a stay with a facilitator).
I guess the main idea here is to further validate the facilitator and their experience through user input into the platform rather than pulling data from online. It should theoretically be more reliable, up to date, and accurate.
As a former operator, I know it's hard to find a qualified facilitator and also being a former analyst I tend to look at things very analytically. Ideally, I would have liked to go on a specific platform to find facilitators based on specific criteria. To sort and filter the results. As it stands now, the best you can do as an operator is to put out posts seeking facilitators and manually validating each one through interviews and reaching out to their previous collaborators. Sure, you can go on LinkedIn but many facilitators don't update their profile accordingly and there is very limited filtering/sorting functionality.