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Roamalot

Building a platform to support the founding and operation of global and local sharing communities!

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Roamalot

Roamalot

Roamalot

Roamalot

Roamalot

Building a platform to support the founding and operation of global and local sharing communities!

Building a platform to support the founding and operation of global and local sharing communities!

Building a platform to support the founding and operation of global and local sharing communities!

Building a platform to support the founding and operation of global and local sharing communities!

Evert Smit
Evert Smit
Evert Smit
Evert Smit
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Zurich, Switzerland
$3,186 USD $3,186 USD 59 backers
12% of $26,029 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
(Deutsche Übersetzung)

Imagine!

… a world of community driven groups that enables you to share your skills, your time or even your belongings. It fosters connections between real people who want to share their resources. As technology makes the world smaller, Roamalot brings people all across the globe together, allowing members to roam freely between and within local communities, sharing information and building relationships across the world and within their community.

What is Roamalot?

Roamalot is a website that enables you to share your skills, your time or your belongings. It connects you with local people in their communities to share these resources. The global networks allow you to roam freely between these local communities, without losing your profile information and ratings.

What are you funding here?

The Roamalot team has been working on the website since March 2013. We have through time identified two items that require funding beyond our own means and that’s why we need your help.

Funding is required for:

  • The core features of the sharing component for the website (sharing engine) require development outside our set of skills. We need to hire a developer or company to do this for us.
  • We want to offer a secure and high performing website. This requires a managed operation of web servers. We need to fund the first year of operation based on the estimated future income of the platform.

Your support goes directly towards those two items. We cannot do it alone, so we’re asking you to give us a hand by donating to this project.

How can I use Roamalot?

I can participate in a local sharing community or start a new one. I share things, time or skills with those around me. I can invite people to my home using the global hospitality community. My visitors tell me their stories, we talk about culture, cook together and I can show them my world.

I visit other places and join in with the local communities during my stay. There is no need for me to create a new profile and or start from scratch again. The global network between the local communities allows me to roam freely, keeping my profile and growing my reputation using the circles of trust I built in my previous communities.

Sharing with complete strangers? Are you insane?

The main currency in a sharing community is trust. Without trust, nothing is going to work. Of course you’re not just going to give your beloved tools to a complete stranger. They might break them or even worse run off with them. This is an absolutely understandable point of view. That is why one of Roamalot’s main functions is to allow you to build a web of trust by getting rated and receiving references from people you have interacted with. This web of trust is built inside the community and when you change to a different community you take it along and don’t have to start from scratch, like you do every time you join a new website.

Here some example of what Roamalot has to offer:

Experience sharing is a great example for a local community that you could build or participate in. Help others in your community by coaching them with your experience and guidance where they maybe otherwise cannot get any advice. Or spend some time with a local of your community and listen to his or her experience and history. There is so much potential lost by not interacting with the society around you that by building a local experience community and inviting especially the elderly to join in (they maybe just don’t know how to) we can again learn from our elders and actively help our youngsters.


Hospitality sharing is a good example for a global community, because it involves more than a single place. Travelers from all over the world roam about the planet, discovering new worlds, sharing their experience with locals, meeting people and spending time together. Once the roamers part way, there is a mechanism in place that allows each participant to rate their experience. This allows for the web of trust to become more solid.


Kitchen sharing is something we envision especially in the bigger cities with larger expat communities. It’s a local sharing community with a global touch to it. Some of us find ourselves living alone, and cooking for ourselves is just not as fun as with others or for someone. So in the community someone states he or she is making pasta tonight and has room for 3 more people. They share the cost of the groceries or agree to each bring part of the dish like a good old fashioned potluck dinner.

Want to know more?

Want to know how this works for you? Send us a mail to support@romalot.com and describe your situation. We can then give you an example how Roamalot could work for you. Visit our website at http://www.roamalot.com and follow us there or on facebook or google+. Share it with your networks and help us finding the funding so we can make this work for you!
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Carry the colours

Currency Conversion $260 USD
€250 EUR
A t-shirt with our logo on it. Walk the streets and tell people about our new platform and how you helped building it. With a badge and early access to the website.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
3 claimed

Show support

Currency Conversion $10 USD
€10 EUR
As a active supporter of the project you will receive a founders badge once the site is active and accessible by the public. Thanks so much for helping us!
Estimated Shipping
March 2014
17 claimed

Get early access

Currency Conversion $52 USD
€50 EUR
As a donator to the project we will grant you early access to the project and your account will receive a founders badge, showing that you helped building the platform.
Estimated Shipping
March 2014
27 claimed

Bringing things together

Currency Conversion $104 USD
€100 EUR
A key chain with logo and the founders badge to show you helped building the site. A symbolic gift, allowing you to keep your keys all together and thing of how you helped bringing this platform to live.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
7 claimed

A swiss tool

Currency Conversion $521 USD
€500 EUR
The swiss pocket knife. It will help you on the road, at home, in school or at work in so many ways. you can share it with your friend or give someone a hand in fixing something. With the logo and the founders badge/account of course.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 10 of claimed

A founders dinner

Currency Conversion $1,041 USD
€1,000 EUR
The founders dinner will be in our kitchen, at our table, with us. We want to know who you are and want to thank you in person for supporting us this much. The dinner will be in Zurich and after a good chat, good food you get to try our hospitality by staying the night or some nights, if you like. Of course we want to show you how far we are already and will make sure you get an account and founders badge
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 2 of claimed
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