Hello dear reader, and welcome to the first blog post by Chimney Roommates.
Chimney Roommates is the newest platform that offers a time-saving and intuitive approach to finding roommates, for free. Will Chimney Roommates be for you? Your answers to the following 5 questions will determine if our platform can serve your needs.
Does Today’s Roommate Search Suck? Let’s find out.
Question 1
Have you ever invested precious daylight (and nightlight) hours into narrowing down hundreds of roommate Ad’s into a small collection where YOU would be the PERFECT roommate?
Yes or No?
Question 2
Have you dedicated even more time to crafting delicate individual responses to the aforementioned Ad’s where you make your best case for why you are a perfect fit and thus the only logical roommate to choose?
Yes or No?
Question 3
Did you feel rejected because you only received a small (almost insignificant!) fraction of replies to your aforementioned outpouring of roommate-seeking soul and emotion?
Yes or No?
Question 4
Was one of those replies a courtesy to tell you that the listing was no longer available?
Yes or No?
Question 5
When you finally traveled across bus lines and subway connections to meet your few remaining potential roommates, did you feel that you wouldn’t be a good match after all?
Yes or No?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, then it’s fair to say that your experience finding roommates online has sucked. At Chimney Roommates, we’re building a FREE platform to make it suck less.
That’s where this blog comes in. This blog will not solely function as a marketing platform for Chimney Roommates (though we do hope that you will spread the word about us!). This platform is a startup and while starting this startup we have learned a lot. We would like to share what we have learned and are currently learning with you. And, if you have had similar experiences we would love to hear about what you did to get past some of the challenges we have had and are currently facing.
What have we learned about?
Startups
Despite the fact that we are in our early stages, we have already hit some bureaucratic bumps in the road (stay tuned for our post on how NOT to incorporate a company). As a public service, we feel the need to share these challenges and how we solved them (or how we think we solved them).
Technology
Prior to building Chimney Roommates, neither of us co-founders had technical experience coding web apps. We have managed to learn development at a reasonable pace and would like to share some web development tools we found helpful, as well as our own walkthroughs to some of the practical functionality we implemented into our web app.
Thank you for reading, and please stay tuned.
— Marian & Tatyana
Chimney Roommates 