Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#11

Post by mattwdelong » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 3:17 PM UTC

It makes good business sense to grab early invites, sure.

However, you're posting this to a forum that is made up of mostly hackers. Hackers hate being tricked. At least tell us the site is not ready for consumption before we all go ahead and sign up.

Otherwise, cool concept. Hope it works out, but there is not much to see here.

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#12

Post by munkay » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 3:21 PM UTC

The signup page seems to have absolutely no context. I'm not even sure what service I'm signing up for, and what benefits it would get me. I'm sure you have to get some initial seed of users, but tricking HN users without a demo/trial/feature-list/anything probably is not the right way to go. Sorry.

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#13

Post by yaix » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 3:36 PM UTC

"Who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook timeline: Friends"

Why would the app need to do that? Only for an invitation?

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#14

Post by kaiju » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 4:09 PM UTC

If this wasn't ready for public consumption you probably shouldn't have showed it off in public.

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#15

Post by codetonowhere » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

mattwdelong wrote: post #11

It makes good business sense to grab early invites, sure. However, you're posting this to a forum that is made up of mostly hackers. Hackers hate being tricked. At least tell us the site is not ready for consumption before we all go ahead and sign up. Otherwise, cool concept. Hope it works out, but there is not much to see here.

We didn't really feel that we tricking people, but definitely take these points on board.

If anyone wants their details removed let me know - rich@roo.md

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#16

Post by danso » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 4:21 PM UTC

If the implementation is not done, then at least have something showing how this app will overcome the initial problem of a small userbase. That is, are my roommate options limited to those who are using room.d currently?

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#17

Post by fady » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 4:50 PM UTC

aeurielesn wrote: post #5

Are you kidding me? Why would I give you access to all of that information only to request an invitation. Also, I can't find whether this is US-specific only.

yeah, i'm willing to give my email out for a invite, but i just hate when it asked me for my fb credentials, even though, i give fb very little info about me, etc., i would rather just use my email.

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#18

Post by codetonowhere » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:03 PM UTC

So it seems like we made this announcement a little early. We wanted to gauge initial interest in the general concept, but we didn't state this clearly enough. Sorry about that.

If anyone wants to remove their invite then please get in touch - rich@roo.md

We're looking to launch properly in the coming weeks as soon as we have a viable product. We'll update again once we're actually ready.

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#19

Post by killnine » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

I must not be the only one to have the mindset of refusing to interact with an entity that only grants me access if it is via a facebook account, can I ?

Re: Show HN: Roomd, find new friends to live with

#20

Post by pazimzadeh » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

Not even a screenshot?