UniMateLK
A roommate matching and chat platform built as an academic group project using Spring Boot, MySQL, Google OAuth, and real-time WebSocket communication.
What is this project?
UniMateLK is an academic group project for the DEA module. The platform helps users find suitable roommates by creating profiles, setting preferences, viewing suggested matches, sending match requests, and chatting after a match is accepted.
Academic Full-Stack Web Application
2026
Completed
I contributed to the development and documentation of the project as part of the academic group work. The project helped me improve my backend, database, API, authentication, and full-stack development skills.
What made this difficult?
The main challenge was building a complete full-stack application with authentication, profile management, matching logic, request handling, and real-time chat. The project also required proper backend structure, database integration, and API testing.
What I Built
Google OAuth login
Profile creation and update
Preferences creation and update
Preference-based roommate match suggestions
Match request send, accept, reject, and cancel flow
Chat rooms unlocked after accepted matches
Real-time text chat using WebSockets
Image sharing in chat
Postman collection for API testing
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What I Learned
This project is stronger than a basic student management system because it shows real full-stack application features such as authentication, matching, request workflows, database-backed logic, API testing, and real-time communication.