Roamr for Friends
Get paid to stay with friends on work trips
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Get paid to stay with friends on work trips
756 followers
Roamr For Friends by Roamr enables employees to earn incentives for saving their company money on travel, We're sick of old corporate travel processes & experiences. The way we work & live has changed. Its now time to disrupt corporate travel processes too.
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Stephen here, Founder of Roamr—and today, I’m beyond excited to introduce Roamr for Friends to you all!
Work travel has always been broken. Expensive hotels, lonely stays, and zero financial benefit for employees. Meanwhile, companies are burning cash on accommodation with rising hotel prices. Instead, employees could be staying with people they actually know and trust.
That’s why we built Roamr for Friends—a super simple way for employees to stay with friends instead of hotels—and get paid for it. 💰 Your company saves money, you and your host earn a kickback, and work travel actually becomes enjoyable.
We’re already working with companies like Deel, Remote, and Oyster to help their people rethink work travel, and today, Roamr is live in 100+ countries! 🌍
This idea started when @jason_o_gorman1 and I saw the radical shift in the way we work. Distributed work means teams are more global and while that is great for flexibility, we need to meet regularly in person to build culture, collaboration and engagement. However, that costs a fortune nowadays. We found a win-win-win.
We’re thrilled to launch this to the Product Hunt community and would love to have some of you test the product on your next trip! Excited to hear your feedback, and help us make work travel more rewarding! 🚀
#Roamr #ProductHunt #WorkTravelReimagined #AMoreRewardingWayToTravel
@jason_o_gorman1 @stephen_dooley1 amazing concept, well done on putting this together. Smart idea to incentivise employees to get savings.
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@jason_o_gorman1 @stephen_dooley1 great idea, all the best!
@jason_o_gorman1 @stephen_dooley1 fantastic folks, great launch and awesome looking product!
@jason_o_gorman1 @stephen_dooley1 This is genius! I've been on both sides of the coin as an employer paying for the travel and as an employee travelling! Such a win-win.
First of all, huge congratulations on launching this product! 🎉
There’s something I’d like to ask. Does this mean that employees stay at a friend’s house? Or that they share a hotel with a colleague while on a business trip? If it’s the former, how does this differ from Airbnb?
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@kay_arkain hey Kay, thansk so much for the question & support.
What we do is we take the money the company would have spent on a hotel and split that between the Travelling employee and their host (minus some cost savings too for the employer).
So imagine you have a work trip to New York, instead of your company spending $300 on a hotel each night, you can stay with a friend/family/colleague. You'll earn $105/night, your host earns $105/night and your company saves $60/night.
So we differ from airbnb in two ways:
1) Companeys are guaranteed savings of 20% vs their alternative accommodation (hotel or airbnb)
2) The traveller and the host earn money too.
Does that make it a bit clearer?
@stephen_dooley1 That’s a win-win for all! Appreciate your reply.
This is great, not only the money saving but also the opportunity to create greater connections between employees who stay together. Will definitely be trying this out
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@stephen_dooley1 I’ve just sent this on to some friends who travel a lot for work, one who oversees travel in their company (large org). I’ve just connected with you on LinkedIn and will let you know their feedback/make some intros!
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Love this concept allowing people to create more human interactions with colleagues, all while saving money! No brainer really.
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@jake_spelman Thanks Jake! You've hit the nail on the head, that's exactly our mission here at Roamr. We felt the changing ways we work created opportunity for flexibility but we are still human and still need to have that in person experience every so often!
This is such an amazing concept. There aren't a lot of ecosystems that are truly win-win-win but this just makes so much sense for travelers, hosts and employers. I was a member in the early access and would HIGHLY recommend Roamr to anyone who travels for work, to companies that want to travel without breaking the bank and to anyone with some spare space that they want to monetize easily.
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@jim_coughlin Woohoo, thanks for the support Jim!
Love this! It’s a no brainer. Great opportunity for companies to increase the amount of time they spend working together in person while keeping the benefits of remote and not increasing costs!
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@tadhgol cheers Tadhg! Great to hear that from a product guru like yourself