About us
We want to make the home search shorter
Bojakt gathers vacant rental homes from marketplaces, housing companies and private landlords in one place, and gets in touch when something that fits you turns up. That's the whole product. This page is about the rest: why we're building it, where we're heading, how we think while we do it — and what bojakt isn't.
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What's broken
The listings exist. They're just scattered. A vacant rental can turn up on a marketplace, at a municipal housing company or on a private landlord's own site — and anyone who doesn't happen to look in the right place on the right day never sees it. Not because it was hidden, but because nobody had gathered it.
A small industry has grown up around that problem: sites that collect the same listings and then charge to show contact details that sit in the open with whoever is actually letting the home. Usually a small fee first and a subscription afterwards. Bojakt is built as the opposite of that, and it's one of the few decisions here that has never been reopened.
Where we're heading
Today bojakt is a gathering place. We pull in listings that already exist elsewhere, tidy them up so they can be compared, and match them against what you're looking for. It works, but it isn't the goal: a service that only gathers other people's listings depends on other people, and can never vouch for the listing itself.
Landlords can already publish with us directly, and that's the part meant to grow. Then the listing is here first, and whoever is watching that town hears about it without us having to fetch it from anywhere else.
It gets built step by step and in the right order: a marketplace with only landlords and no seekers helps nobody. So far our own listings are a very small part of what you see here — we'd rather say that outright.
What bojakt isn't
At least as important as what we do. The misunderstandings here cost people time, and a couple of them cost money elsewhere.
Not a housing queue
You build up no queue time with us and we hand out no homes. If there is a queue it belongs to whoever is letting the home, and your place in it isn't affected by anything you do here.
We don't pick who gets the home
The landlord does, on their own terms. We can show you the home exists and how to reach it. The rest is between the two of you.
We own no homes
We're not a landlord and not an agent. We take no deposit, write no contracts and handle no payments between you and whoever is letting the home.
Not an affiliate network
When you click through to a listing somewhere else we get no commission and no click fee. We don't add anything to the link to get paid — you go there because that's where you're going.
No hidden placements
If someone has paid to sit higher up, the listing says “Boostad”, every time it's shown. A bought placement that doesn't look bought is exactly what we're trying to be the opposite of.
How we build
We're a small team, and it shows in the product for better and for worse. Here are five things that are true about how it gets made — not values, but things that actually happened.
Decisions are written down before they're built
Every significant call is recorded with a date and a reason: what we charge for, how often we get in touch, what we turn down. It makes drifting harder — a decision you have to rewrite in order to change is a decision you think through one more time.
The promises are tested, not just written
The rules for what our copy may promise exist as automated tests. If a heading promises more than the product delivers, the build breaks before the text reaches anyone. A promise that lives only in a style guide is a promise that erodes.
We'd rather measure than guess
The weekly newsletter goes out at 09:15, not 09:00. Collection starts on the hour, and that two-second overlap was enough to put one home a whole week late for someone in Sundsvall. We found it by looking at what actually happened, not by reasoning our way to what ought to.
We're a polite guest
When we fetch listings we do it slowly, rarely, and with a cap on how much we ask for at once. An image is fetched exactly once and then kept with us. The sites we fetch from aren't opponents — we send seekers to them, for free.
We build for the person who falls through the cracks
One user misspelled her own email address. Everything we sent bounced, she never found out, and since sign-in goes to that same address she couldn't fix it either. Now the site notices while you're still on the page and asks whether you'd like to change it. A fault that hits one person is still a fault.
How things work here
- We never charge home seekers for contact with a landlord.
- Watching one town costs nothing, and you don't have to hand over a card to do it.
- No passwords and no account to create. You get a link by email when you need to get in.
- You can end everything yourself, whenever you like, without first talking to someone trying to talk you out of it.
Charging a home seeker to broker a rental home is prohibited under chapter 12, section 65 a of the Swedish Land Code, except in professional housing brokerage. We broker nothing — but we build so the question never has to come up anyway.
Subscriptions are what pay for bojakt today. See what it costs
That's about it
Bojakt is small, young and built by people who have hunted for a flat themselves. If something is unclear, broken or just badly done, we'd like to know — we're the ones reading the email.
Write to us: bojakt.se@gmail.com