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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 7 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | 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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llamataboot ◴[29 Oct 15 02:15 UTC] No.10468805[source]▶
Why did you copy Handy's site verbatim? Why did you not give customers the option to opt-in to your new venture? Why did you post the logos of news organizations that had never written you up?
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1. w1ntermute ◴[29 Oct 15 02:30 UTC] No.10468849[source]▶
They're doing things that don't scale (aka hacking/hustling).
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2. mahmud ◴[29 Oct 15 03:19 UTC] No.10469033[source]▶
Since when is content theft "hacking"?
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3. Disruptive_Dave ◴[29 Oct 15 03:40 UTC] No.10469120[source]▶
This shouldn't be downvoted. It's far from unreasonable to attribute these moves to following the "hack/hustle" ethos we hear all the time in Startupland. "Passion" + "exploring" + "small team" + "moving quickly" + "bootstrapping" + "quickly test". It's all there, folks.
4. plinkplonk ◴[29 Oct 15 04:06 UTC] No.10469218[source]▶
I think he was being sarcastic.
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6. w1ntermute ◴[29 Oct 15 04:19 UTC] No.10469248{3}[source]▶
I probably should've made that clearer.
7. FlyingSnake ◴[29 Oct 15 07:30 UTC] No.10469685[source]▶
...and hoping they cover their tracks after they get traction.