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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 9 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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aarontcheung ◴[28 Oct 15 22:42 UTC] No.10467925[source]▶
I'm one of the founders of Homejoy. I'm still very passionate about the home service space. After leaving Homejoy, I started FlyMaids, where we're exploring a few different angles on the space.

We recently acquired the customer and service provider data from Homejoy.

We're a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping. We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner. We recognize the need to use the data we acquired responsibily. As a result, we're taking the site down, and we're going to do a better job with our testing moving forward.

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1. shashashasha ◴[28 Oct 15 22:58 UTC] No.10468016[source]▶
What are the differences between Homejoy, FlyMaids, and Homeaglow?

Are they all incorporated as the same entity, or are they all separate?

Are different founders of Homejoy working on different angles?

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2. webo ◴[28 Oct 15 23:01 UTC] No.10468026[source]▶
and cleanerconnect.com
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3. IkmoIkmo ◴[29 Oct 15 02:08 UTC] No.10468777[source]▶
and dazzlingcleaning.com, exact copy of Flymaids (i.e. the cached version, Flymaids was taken down just now it seems).
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4. gong ◴[29 Oct 15 02:31 UTC] No.10468854{3}[source]▶
how are you finding these related domains?
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5. jbwyme ◴[29 Oct 15 03:07 UTC] No.10468993{4}[source]▶
Tried this footprint and found another: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22We+are+Netionwide%22&oq=%...
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6. IkmoIkmo ◴[29 Oct 15 03:50 UTC] No.10469165{4}[source]▶
Oh just looked at the cached version of the Flymaids website on google and searched for some of the text they had on google.

Such as 'Add your specific cleaning instructions and pay securely online by debit or credit card. No cash, no fuss.'

Which prompted https://mopp.com this time, but also willowmaids and urbahome. This is getting beyond ridiculous haha.

I'm starting to wonder if this isn't just the lorum ipsum of cleaning websites.

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7. zeckalpha ◴[29 Oct 15 03:57 UTC] No.10469191[source]▶
"Product-Market fit"
8. slantedview ◴[29 Oct 15 04:28 UTC] No.10469276{5}[source]▶
At least 3 with that same footer - all taken down now.

Perhaps a lame attempt to corner the market? Not sure how well that would work out with the exact same content - google punishes such things.

9. nilkn ◴[29 Oct 15 06:18 UTC] No.10469566{5}[source]▶
How seriously weird. I do notice that mopp.com, unlike the rest, says "Powered by Handy".