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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: 0.286s | 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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1. raritanone ◴[04 Nov 15 07:49 UTC] No.10505131[source]▶
Immature know-nothing who thinks he's slick but is obviously making improper (unlawful?) use of private financial information. In no other business would you give a kid millions of dollars and expect him to not waste it on shiny objects like aero chairs and not toss him on his ass when ranting Start Up Speak. I'm so passionate about my comment I think I'll change the world.