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The is certainly space for a "Uber/Airbnb for home services", but I am not sure Amazon will be it. What startups are in this space, and do they have any traction?



Task Rabbit is pretty good and well known, and now there's Magic which sits on top of it. There's a lot more but they're smaller.


To me, Magic seems like a ChaCha that takes your credit card number and makes a few calls. That's fine, but it seems that places like Task Rabbit and Amazon Home are attempting to guarantee some level of satisfaction and results.

I've seen a couple other startups like Magic too. It's basically paying people to google for you. That might disrupt the personal assistant space but probably not the market for home services.


I always thought TaskRabbit was for unskilled jobs. More assembling IKEA desks than plumbing and electrics.


There is are many including http://www.pro.com, http://www.redbeacon.com, http://www.homeadvisor.com/. Apparently the first one is backed by Bezos Expeditions! http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-24/pro-dot-com-...


Recently launched Super Fast Yellow Pages: http://www.superfastyellowpages.com/


Seems like Taskrabbit sort of fills this space at the moment, unaware of other startups in the space though





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