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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: 0.241s | source

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aarontcheung ◴[28 Oct 15 22:42 UTC] No.10467925[source]▶

>>10466888 (OP) #

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. OJFord ◴[29 Oct 15 16:32 UTC] No.10472300[source]▶

I find it so hard to believe that anyone could possibly think going live with a total clone of a competitor's website for "testing" is a good idea.

Maybe, _maybe_, for offline testing with small focus groups. But even then, what's the point? You could just show them the competitor site and ask what the dis/like..