Hotel Room Sharing App Launches Today
Hotels are expensive. Sometimes, prohibitively so. If you’re out of town on business, three or four nights at a hotel can equate to a month’s rent. According to the Hotels.com Hotel Price Index, the average price for a hotel room in Atlanta was $122 in 2014. When a large conference or convention is in town, that price could double or sometimes triple. However, Atlanta-based startup Roomedi is launching today, March 10th, and wants to be your remedy to high-priced hotel rooms.
Founded last year by Wade Ivy, III and Carlton Langley, “Roomedi helps travelers reduce the cost of hotel rooms by sharing them with like-minded travelers,” says Ivy. “Our service targets attendees of conferences, conventions, and other events (sporting, musical, professional), since these travelers have an established common interest and a similar travel schedule, and thus, are more likely to need and use the service.”
Ivy got the idea when a friend of his wanted to go to a convention, but couldn’t afford the cost of a hotel room. “She mentioned the need for a service that allowed people to find each other who wanted to share a hotel room,” he recalls. “This sounded like a great idea to me.” As an Atlanta resident, Ivy also thought that basing his company in Georgia’s capital would be a great idea too. “Atlanta, with its array of national and international conferences, conventions, and entertainment events (DragonCon, Tomorrow World, Bronner Bros. Hair Show, Music Midtown, Passion, etc.) serves as a platform for new ideas,” he says. “Atlanta’s large, diverse population of young professionals, many of whom benefit from professional, as well as, leisure meetings, is fertile ground to launch such an endeavor.”
Roomedi is bootstrapped and they are looking for a mentor. “We could use a mentor who has been running a lean startup for about 2 years and is looking to the future. Preferably, a mentor would have experience in a comparable field (sharing, accommodations, or travel).”
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroomedi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theroomedi
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