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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 1 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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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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Balgair ◴[28 Oct 15 22:54 UTC] No.10467997[source]▶
Welp, might as well ask if no-one else is: What do you mean by 'exploring a few different angles on the space'? How is you new service going to be better than Home Joy or different? Essentially, considering what happened to Home Joy, why is it going to be different this time around? Great job on Home Joy the first time 'round, btw.
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fleitz ◴[28 Oct 15 22:56 UTC] No.10468003[source]▶
Same great technology, less debt / more equity.
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1. rokhayakebe ◴[29 Oct 15 00:36 UTC] No.10468470[source]▶
AND a list of 100 mistakes I won't make.