Absolutely love this solution. So many trends converging here. (Well-covered in the Bruno's origin post.) - Pairing the nomadic lifestyle with a sense of both local and global community, bringing balance to a traveling lifestyle. - The intersection of craftsmanship and stellar design with shared goods and shared space, making fine living more accessible. - Distributed information work meets a distributed living network. - Subscriptions and rentals supplanting individual ownership not only in transportation but also in the workplace (coworking) and the home. Looking forward to seeing this model expand, and to the unique permutations that @brunohaid @kimmaicutler @sushimako and team explore with "belonging, location independence and technology." Curious if @brunohaid or Airbnb's marketing team arrived at "belonging" first 😀

Looks like they missed the mark on pricing.

I love this idea, and I would like to try Roam. I hope they can grow to scale the price down. I just returned from 2 months in Canggu, Bali (the beach alternative to Ubud). I spent about $1300 for really nice housing and solid coworking (shoutout to Dojo). That's only about $650 a month. On a budget, I can't see choosing Roam for myself quite yet. But I can see Roam delivering a higher quality experience that is worth paying more for in the future.

Would be absolutely thrilled to see this work!

Love the idea! Keep it up!

Surprised I can't opt-in for email updates on new locations

so exciting! awesome vision and team!

I absolutely would pay for this. I can see how it makes sense too as long as people don't all want to be in the same couple of locations. Break even/lose money in some cities but make a lot more to even it out in cheaper locations.

Day before yesterday I was in ubud :( If I could have got info would have surely visited it! Better luck next time :( as I am now departing. And yeah from pics this place looks simply amorous! If you guys plan to open a branch in India and searching for managing partner please ping me anytime would love to help out or join the team.

After meeting with the Bruno in Bali, I had the pleasure of working with the Roam team on a few landing pages. Kudos on the launch @brunohaid and Roam team - this is definitely the future. :-)

When I first heard about Caravanserai (the previous incarnation of Bruno's efforts), I was excited. Having helped get coworking started back in 2007 with Citizen Space, this seemed like the next logical progression, especially considering that coworking had been the logical extension of BarCamp (a hyper-local gathering for people of the internet). This is like a global approach to satisfy that same desire to be part of a community of kindred spirits, but with the added benefit of (thanks to the internetification of work) being able to go anywhere in the world to do it. I became an advisor to Roam after talking to Bruno about his plans and realizing that he was talking about a future world that I wanted to someday live in. I have traveled the world and struggled to find suitable places to work. When I book AirBnbs, I'm commonly scouting them out for their suitability for work, or looking within their general vicinity for the same purpose. Furthermore, finding and meshing with a good sized local crew when traveling can prove challenging. This kind of co-living/coworking arrangement addresses those issue. Roam comes in at a very interesting and transitional moment. While humans have never been more connected through technology, we still lack opportunities to truly live with each other and deepen the serendipitous connections that we've made. Bruno and his team have been very thoughtful and considerate about the architecture and interior design of the space, in order to maximize the opportunities for connection and collaboration. He's thought carefully about the shape and duration of membership: what it entails, what it doesn't, and how long the right length of time for a "rotation" should be (long enough to melt into the local environment without staying so long that become permanent). He's also very tuned in creating the right balance of personalities and interests because this isn't a hotel where you're not meant to meet your neighbors. Indeed, it's quite the opposite, and that requires a good deal of social engineering and planning (for a good cause!). Y'know, to draw a comparison, Periscope's tagline is, "Explore the world through someone else's eyes." But Roam answers the question differently. Roam isn't about seeing the world through someone else's eyes, it's about living in someone else's world, and to brush shoulders with others in a way that virtuality — so far — simply can't replace. I hope that I someday get to live with Roam, but in the meantime am thrilled that this kind of opportunity will exist for other intrepid spirits out there. -- Decided to republish this on Medium!

Awesome product. Remote work and location independence is picking up speed very rapidly. In the future people won’t be quitting their job to become location independent, it will be their job from the start. 60% of the Mozilla team are remote. BuzzFeed is 50% remote. Some companies like Buffer have even taken the plunge to become 100% remote or “fully distributed”. Hello new world.

I think it's a nice service but for me it feels like a well organised, scaled, long term airbnb. I would like to know more about the people who are there and figure out if coming to live with them would be beneficial for me and the business. People are more important to me than place.

Congrats on all the progress, @brunohaid @kimmaicutler @sushimako! For those interested in early thinking behind Roam, here's Bruno discussing the "CaravanSerai" (as it then was called) project on @TeleportInc podcast: https://soundcloud.com/teleporti...

This is definitely (probably) the future of business travel as the world becomes more globalized and digital. That said, kinda pricey if you don't travel more than an average amount of time. Will keep an eye out for it.

I absolutely love this idea. I've been traveling a lot, and usually have to find something on Craigslist to sublet short term. Most recently in Berlin. This would have been the perfect solution :)

Go @brunohaid & team!

Why can't I find the pricing?

I've been considering moving location recently as Cardiff, UK is not the right place for me. Tech scene here is probably the best part of 20 years behind. I was chatting with Chris about what he thought I should do, and he mentioned about living it up Digital Nomad style. I've not given it too much thought before, but recently I have. I'm considering a month or two in different places around the world then maybe a couple of months in NYC or something. Then he showed me this. You can check out the story behind it here. It looks like the type of thing I should throw myself into... but I'm not in a position too just yet. Can't wait to see stories of the experiences who people get themselves on board straight away! @brunohaid @kimmaicutler and @sushimako tell us a bit more. What sets this apart?

@sushimako @brunohaid @kimmaicutler I am super interested in the topic. Looking at the pictures from the Ubud destination, I wonder if that's The Shift hotel behind the former Alchemy cafe in Penestanan area? If so, I remember it being recently built. Was it specifically built and dedicated to this project?