A tool for searching award flights and hotels using airline miles and credit card points, with award ticket search (SkyView), seat availability alerts, a points wallet and member-rate hotels.
A YC S23 searchOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout: checkout.stripe.com
“Roame uses a membership model to offer member hotel rates.”Quote from the site
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Direct 77.9%, search 17.8%, email 3.4%, brand keywords 95.7%; referrals include booking.com, ycombinator.com, producthunt.com; a small amount of AI traffic comes from ChatGPT (0.33%). Returning users come back through seat-availability alert emails.
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| 1% | |
| Other | 99% |
Direct + brand search 96%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 84.57% |
| Canada | 9.28% |
| United Kingdom | 0.93% |
| India | 0.48% |
| Hong Kong | 0.44% |
Countries (Semrush): United States 79.5%, Canada 5.6%, United Kingdom 4.3%, South Korea 3.0%, Japan 1.0%
English
YouTube, Reddit, X (Twitter)
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 0.33 |
| Claude | 0.03 |
| Gemini | 0.01 |
AI referrals (Semrush): ChatGPT 1,431 (0.33%), Claude 108 (0.03%), Gemini 55 (0.01%)
2.5K keywords · brand ~96% · organic 92.15% / paid 7.85%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| roame |
| roame travel |
| raome |
| travel roame |
| roam travel |
8 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| booking.com | 3.84% |
| ycombinator.com | 0.2% |
| producthunt.com | 0.19% |
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 73.39% |
| Business Services | 7.06% |
| Travel and Tourism - Other | 6.75% |
| Accommodation and Hotels | 3.84% |
| Coupons and Rebates | 0.07% |
About 17,192 last month (Similarweb estimate), #184 of 606; the month before was 9,217. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly referrals, email or paid, or mostly direct with no clear source Direct 77.9%, search 17.8%, email 3.4%, brand keywords 95.7%; referrals include booking.com, ycombinator.com, producthunt.com; a small amount of AI traffic comes from ChatGPT (0.33%). Returning users come back through seat-availability alert emails.
Free tier; Friends of Roame $9.16/month or $109.99/year; Inner Circle $25/month or $299.99/year
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.
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