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Sam Parr's first startup, Bunk, matched roommates by hosting events at landlord apartments and posting custom Craigslist ads. The strategy brought 10,000 weekly visitors to a basic Weebly site before they built an app.
Sam Parr's first startup, Bunk, matched roommates by hosting events at landlord apartments and posting custom Craigslist ads. The strategy brought 10,000 weekly visitors to a basic Weebly site before they built an app.
My first business was called Bunk. It was Tinder for roommates, which I always say was stupid. But before it became an app, we actually just had a website that was built on Weebly. What we used to do is we went and found landlords who had 4-bedroom apartments, and we said, hey, we're going to host an event at your 3- and 4-bedroom apartment, and we're going to have a bunch of prospective tenants there, and they're going to team up and get their own place. We would create individual ads for a 1-bedroom at $1,000. And back then on Craigslist, you could use HTML and create these beautiful images of what the apartments looked like. And it said, this is Bunk We help match people. This is a 1-bedroom and a 4-bedroom, but we're going to help you team up. We would get like 10,000 users a week coming to our bunksf.com website. And that's how I got our first bit of users.
