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.
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.
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.
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.
I suggest the "Request invite" just asks for an email address and then asks for future information when you actually launch. Also, I think most people will have the question whether roommate options are limited to Roomd users or not. Good idea though, one of my colleagues was talking about this idea a while ago and went nowhere with it.
We discussed this... at length. But in the end decided it would be better to get some early feedback rather than blindly go forward. This may have been as mistake.
We're working on the initial version, but this really isn't ready for public consumption yet, unfortunately.
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 ?
I think the issue is that this is a completely unknown company/product. Why should users give out any personal information to request for an invite for something with next to no information.
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?
Also, I can't find whether this is US-specific only.