hey
hello and welcome to homeroom. jade and tamar are two friends and coworkers building something new together 🧚🏻 one has hard skills and the other doesn’t, both love bringing people together and keeping it simple.
we’re keeping these newsletters short and snappy — a place for updates and lore about what we’re working on for people to follow along. with that being said, no time to waste 🚀
who are we
Jade is a fullstack software engineer building insurance optimizing code which she’s way too fun to be doing 40 hrs/week. she has two insane cats and lives in Greenpoint in a castle all to herself. most of her friends live within a 1 mi radius but she finds it unnecessarily difficult to coordinate a time to see all of them. more on that later.
Tamar is not a fullstack software engineer but routinely ruins engineer’s days by asking them to build insurance optimizing code in her CX role. she lives in Park Slope, loves to host, and religiously reads before bed. she always wished there was an easier way to plan casual hangouts, which brings us to homeroom...
what is homeroom?
we started homeroom as a platform connecting New Yorkers in real life over shared skills and interests. we organized home-based classes like learning how to code, strength training, and collage self portraits — all taught by people who just love doing what they do. we sunsetted these classes mostly because 1) organizing the events was, unsurprisingly, a very time consuming manual process and 2) we didn’t feel it was bringing us close enough to our end goal for the amount of effort it required. we’ve since shifted our focus 🧘
enter homeroom today: we’re currently building an app that helps you and your friends hang out in real time. no more endless group chats with no conclusions, no more back and forth texting your best friend who moved to bushwick only to figure out you were both free last Wednesday, no more partiful invites for something ultimately casual (yeah we said it). spending time with your people shouldn’t be this hard and what ever happened to spontaneous hangouts?
(cleo protecting the castle)
what’s next?
as it goes, both of us are still whittling away at a b2b software company and are building this in our free time. that being said, we’re incredibly excited to start releasing updates both here and on our instagram along the way. stay tuned for more coming soon ❤️🔥
see you at home
XO