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aarontcheung ◴[] 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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andy_ppp ◴[] No.10468091[source]
I'm actually tempted to write a response so harsh I'd probably be banned from hacker news.

Instead I genuinely hope that YC will force companies taking the 7% into a no selling on data policy; I'm not saying that is easy to write but I am saying this situation without response smears YC, something I'm sure could be avoided in future.

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paulcole ◴[] No.10468685[source]
Isn't the ability to collect and sell data a hedge against the huge percentage of companies that are for all practical purposes worthless?

Kind of like a store selling its shelves as it goes out of business. May as well get money for anything that's not nailed down.

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1. azima ◴[] No.10469581[source]
yup. and there are many well-funded startups that pivoted to buying/selling data from all the non-rocketships out there.