About Vivus Project
We built it for the way we wanted to live.
Hotel comfort. Coworking focus. A real community. Built by people who travelled enough to know what was missing. And who got tired of waiting for somebody else to fix it.
01 ·The why
Working travel broke us.
For five years we lived in the gap between the Airbnb on weekdays and the hostel on weekends. Comfort or community. Productivity or social life. Quiet WiFi or loud kitchen. We never quite found a place that did both, so we kept switching, kept paying for two stays at once, kept arriving in cities and rebuilding our routines from scratch.
The category that should have existed did not. Hotels were comfortable but designed for tourists who leave on Sunday. Coworking spaces were productive but emptied out at 6pm. Coliving was either dorm-room cheap or branded and overpriced. Hostels were warm but unworkable.
So we kept making lists of what was missing. Better desks. Reliable fibre. A community that was already there when you arrived. Weekend programming you did not have to organise. A community manager who actually knew the city. Eventually the list got long enough that the only honest thing to do was build it.
02 ·The mission
Build the place where work and travel finally agree.
Hotel comfort. Coworking focus. Real community. The three were never supposed to be a trade-off. We built the place where they finally aren't.
03 ·Founder
Built by Affan Manzoor.
Founder · Vivus Project
Affan Manzoor
Affan spent the better part of a decade building products remote-first across more than thirty cities. He built and shipped products from cafes in Lisbon, rooftops in Bali, and apartments in Mexico City. The pattern that made him stop and build something was simple. The places he loved to stay were almost never the same as the places he could actually work from.
Vivus Project is the answer he stopped waiting for somebody else to ship. The standard is the one he wants for himself: hotel-grade rooms, fibre that does not flicker, a community he would actually want to walk into a room with, and a city he can come back to and feel known.
The first house opens in Medellín on June 1, 2026. The second is being scoped for Mexico City. The category is being built one neighbourhood at a time.
“I am not building a hotel chain. I am building the place I would want to live for a month at a time, in cities I would want to know.”
- 10+ years remote-first across product, growth, and operations
- 30+ cities lived in (not just visited) since 2014
- Previously: led product and growth across LATAM, EU, and SEA
- Lives in El Poblado, Medellín. Speaks English, Urdu, and serviceable Spanish.
04 ·Manifesto
For too long, life has followed the same script.
Study.
Work.
Wait for the weekend.
Wait for the holiday.
Wait for "one day."
Some of us stopped waiting.
They are ambitious. They build businesses, create ideas, push themselves forward.
They refuse to believe that success should come at the cost of living.
They want to wake up in new places.
Meet people outside their normal circles.
Order coffee in Spanish by week two.
Sit next to people whose Monday looks nothing like yours.
Work hard. Live fully.
Believe that work should support life, not replace it.
Vivus Project exists for these people.
The ones who refuse to postpone life.
The ones building careers while exploring the world.
The ones who pick warm afternoons over predictable ones.
Life is not something you wait for. It is something you live.
05 ·Where we are going
Six cities in twelve months.
Medellín opens the season. The rest are scoped, partnered, and on the calendar. We open one city at a time so each one earns its own community before we move on.
- Open
Medellín, Colombia
Opens June 1, 2026
The first house. El Poblado, twelve rooms across four tiers, rooftop workspace, Regus access seven minutes away.
- Coming
Mexico City, Mexico
February 2027
Roma Norte. Vivus Experience cohort first, then a permanent house. Climate runs cool, calendar runs busy.
- Scoping
Lisbon, Portugal
April 2027
Príncipe Real. The first European stop. Tested as a Vivus Experience before any house lights up.
- Scoping
Cape Town, South Africa
November 2027
Bo-Kaap. Long days, summer hours, a rare timezone bridge between Europe and Asia.
- Scoping
Athens, Greece
September 2027
Koukaki. Shoulder-season Mediterranean, walkable, full of small dinners.
- Scoping
Bali, Indonesia
June 2027
Canggu. The known node on the remote-work map. We arrive only when we know what we add to it.
Ready when you are
Pick the way in.
A long stay in Medellín, or a curated trip with a small group. Two doors. The same idea on the other side of both.