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An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
- t0mbstone 9y agoStartup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their_Trash http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the middle of the night (according to a schedule I define using the mobile app), and it would fill up my car's tank and automatically bill my credit card!
- rpedela 9y agoThat would actually be awesome.
- johns 9y agohttps://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/05/02/gas-delivery-start-ups-latest-on-demand-smartphone-fad/83846736/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/05/02/gas-deli...
- t0mbstone 9y agoHoly crap... it actually exists
- barclay 9y agoIt's called [filld](http://filld.com http://filld.com), and it's _awesome_.
- pmalynin 9y agohttp://www.filld.com/ http://www.filld.com/
- spapas82 9y agoThere are more similar start ups: http://www.wefuel.com http://www.wefuel.com
- sillysaurus3 9y agoFilld customers pay the lowest price of the three gas stations closest to their location plus a small delivery fee. For example, if the three gas stations closest to you charge $2.62, $2.55 and $2.67 per gallon, you will pay $2.55. We purchase this pricing data from the Oil Price Indexing Service (OPIS), and we update it regularly. How do they make money? I wonder how high the delivery fee is.
- pdelbarba 9y agoThey're not paying the gas station price. They're likely paying bulk prices then just using the local prices as your price. Edit: $3 for delivery generally and they're using F250 trucks. Call it 1.5t in the bed or about 400 gallons plus tank. They probably have a contract with the local bulk terminal so if you're paying 2.55, they might be paying 30% (no idea what this margin is) less or so. @400 us-gal if they make 30% on the gas plus $3 per 15gal tank, revenue would be in the $380/load range for an average of 26 tanks of gas per load. Edit2: regarding the loss leader strategy, they still have to truck the gas to the station which adds overhead. By going direct to customer (again, assuming they're loading at the bulk terminal) they remove a couple middlemen who's position they then take.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoCould anyone run the numbers on whether this model is profitable, or whether it's another "use VC money to acquire users" type deal? EDIT: Looks like they pay anywhere from $18/hr to $22/hr for their delivery people: https://www.comeet.co/jobs/filld/42.00E https://www.comeet.co/jobs/filld/42.00E Also health, dental, and vision benefits + PTO, FSA, and free lunches. Wow.
- richdougherty 9y agoI guess at-home refuelling is a nice benefit of an electric car.
- lenley 9y agoYC's own https://www.startyoshi.com/ https://www.startyoshi.com/
- sotojuan 9y agoThe Trash Man is back!
- foobaw 9y agoIt's not a bad idea if the quality of the gas is verifiable.
- twothamendment 9y agoHow do you verify the gas from the stations you stop at now? The most thought I've put into it when I had a VW TDI was to fill up at a stations that were busy and more likely to have fresh fuel. A brand name station isn't a guarantee that the fuel is fresh if it is on the road less traveled.
- foobaw 9y agoThat's a fair question to ask but I have some close friends working in the Petroleum industry and they insist on only getting gas from Chevron and Shell from the insider information they have. Not sure if it means much at all though.
- dx034 9y agoProbably not. The gas from many other stations will come from the same refineries. And gasoline is not that perishable, I doubt that the car minds if it has been at the station for 1 week.
- madcaptenor 9y agoThe QuikTrip chain in the South has signs that say they have "guaranteed gasoline". Apparently this means it won't hurt your engine: https://www.quiktrip.com/gasoline https://www.quiktrip.com/gasoline - but I like to think it means that they're guaranteeing their product is gasoline, because I'm easily amused.
- mtanski 9y agoThere's lots of reasons that you have beyond the normal amount of garbage or difficult to deal with garbage. It's really hard to get it removed if you need it on a short notice. A lot of municipalities have limits refuse. For example in NYC you can no longer get rid of electronics in the regular trash. You're supposed to take them to a place that can deal with it. Fair enough. The problem is that there aren't many places and some of them are only open week days. Folks from outer burrows that cannot drive are not going to be able to do that. Also, sometimes you need to get rid of a lot of stuff that you don't want to move when moving because you're going to get new stuff on the other side (bed, mattress). It'd be so much easier to call somebody up and have them just take it away on the last day of your lease.
- tracker1 9y agoJust got a new bed (online order) a couple months ago, and paid a service to take the old one away... we have curbside pickup, but only a few times a year, so needed to pay the $90. I wound up shopping around as there was a range of $90-170 to retrieve a mattress and box. There's definitely room for on demand services for that... especially in larger populated areas.
- phil21 9y agoYup, this is a service that already exists in very informal ways. Check craigslist for "trash and junk removal". Having had a garage I recently organized and about a pickup load full of trash/recyclables I would have absolutely loved such a service vs. trying to find someone non-flaky on CL to actually show up when they said they would.
- mtanski 9y agoThat's what I did when I moved back from SF => NYC. But it occupied a few hours of my time to send emails, wait for responses, try to negotiate time / price. Time I did not have. If I could open a spend 10 minutes, it would be worthwhile in some situations.
- xadhominemx 9y ago>There's lots of reasons that you have beyond the normal amount of garbage or difficult to deal with garbage. It's really hard to get it removed if you need it on a short notice. Why not use 1-800-GOT-JUNK or a similar service?
- jayess 9y agoAnyone remember Priceline Gas? I loved it, for the short period that it lasted...
- gfosco 9y agoThis isn't very uber-like, since it's only for businesses. I'd love to be able to easily get someone to pick up cardboard and other trash at my house. We're big users of Amazon Prime and also starting a business that involves a lot of large deliveries, so we're completely buried in cardboard and the expensive local garbage/recycling service cannot support us. We're ordering our second dumpster in less than a year to try to clear out.
- twothamendment 9y agoThey should consider residential too. Out where I am you have to haul your own trash to a few spots around the county. I don't mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd rather have access to a service like this.
- awa 9y agoThat's why I like Electric cars, come home, hook it up to charger and full charge when u get up
- tintor 9y agoFill it up on the parking and wash exterior at the same time.
- EADGBE 9y agoThe Company will love that!
- sergiotapia 9y agoThe boys are back in town!
- hkmurakami 9y agoI believe many of the refueling companies have shifted to servicing employees of big companies at their corporate parking lots since the economics are way better this way.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoAn Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? There are about a dozen of these. fuel panda is one that is run by a friend of mine
- temuze 9y agohttps://www.trybooster.com/ https://www.trybooster.com/
- jpster 9y agoSee also Booster Fuels, based in Dallas-Fort Worth (ay!) and the Bay Area. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star-telegram.com/news/traffic/your-commute/article144158154.html https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star-telegram.com/news/traffi...
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoYes, please. I have no use for razor subscriptions. I buy a bulk pack once a year - it's not an inconvenience for me. But I stop to buy gas twice a week. It's my most common, most automate-able errand.
- faux_intellect 9y agoNice one. The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis is my favorite episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
- sputknick 9y agoI want this for residential. Instead of having a "trash day" I wait until my garbage can is full, click a button on my app, and tomorrow morning someone comes and picks up my trash.
- santaclaus 9y agoNo need for a button -- add pressure sensors inside the trash can and it can signal the garbage person for you.
- bpicolo 9y agoThere are companies doing exactly that already
- diafygi 9y agoOh man, I can't wait to hear about a botnet of garbage bins.
- ben_jones 9y agoHey, wordpress blogs aren't that bad.
- kevinmchugh 9y agoNow the trash can needs to be powered on, connected to my wifi network - does my wifi reach to the curb where I leave my cans? - and I'm locked in to the cans provided by the trash company.
- toast0 9y ago> and I'm locked in to the cans provided by the trash company. Municipal trash contracts are frequently locking you into cans provided by the trash company already -- they do it to ensure compatibility with the side load machinery, and also so they can charge you based on use; if you produce more waste on a weekly basis, you need to order a larger bin; if you produce less, you can request a smaller bin.
- blhack 9y agoI can see at least one consumer use for this. When we clean out the garage, my girlfriend and I rent a uhaul truck to take everything to the dump/goodwill/storage. If I could use this service to just have somebody show up with a truck and pick up the things we want to throw away, it would be really helpful.
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- sbov 9y ago1-800-got-junk?
- blhack 9y agoSure, but if this is "uber for garbage", then wouldn't the equivalent to existing services be yellow taxi?
- jonny_eh 9y ago1-800-GOT-JUNK is not similar to taxis. You can easily just order a pickup from their site: http://www.1800gotjunk.com/us_en http://www.1800gotjunk.com/us_en How does this startup compete?
- blhack 9y agoWell just looking at their site, it doesn't look like they tell you what the price is.
- johnpowell 9y agoI just did this at my moms house. But we called the people that do the weekly trash service. For 20 bucks they will drop off a large dumpster and leave it there for a week. And then they will pick it up for 40 dollars. And this is large dumpster like you find behind grocery stores.
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- quirkot 9y ago> Investors like that it’s an asset-light business, too. Instead of purchasing its own trucks, RTS is partnering with a growing number of mid-size, independent haulers Please, son. The Bezos Whole Foods don't pay no externalities!
- dexterp 9y agoDon't most cities already provide garbage pick-up?
- zem 9y agoi think the "on-demand" bit is key here. sometimes you really want something taken away on your schedule, not the city's.
- NDizzle 9y agoI think most people would be surprised to learn what their city actually provides. For example, my waste service will drop off a dumpster for your use for up to a week. They'll do that, for free, twice a year. I've never seen anyone else on my street use this service, but I have several times. They'll also do electronic recycling (call and they'll tell you when they can pick it up) and the same for massive piles of lawn clippings. I also make use of the lawn clippings pick up yearly, when I'm doing major work on the yard.
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- dr_ 9y agoThat's what I was thinking. I'm assuming they go above and beyond what the city may offer. if you are a company like whole foods - you probably don't want trash sitting around until a city assigned garbage is ready to pick it up in a week. same with hotels, etc.
- ben_jones 9y agoThey don't already have an arrangement? I've never noticed this problem at a grocery outlet.
- tartuffe78 9y agoIt's called a dumpster, and it sits behind the building so customers don't see it.
- jelder 9y agoThis is great but what if, hold on, we paid taxes.
- Consultant32452 9y agoIn spite of having tax funded garbage collection I often have trouble getting rid of certain things. Large items are collected infrequently and I might not want that sitting in my yard for a week or more awaiting pickup. Similarly, car batteries or other things that have special disposal rules can be difficult to find that information easily when it's something you deal with very infrequently. A service like this could help with that and I'd be happy to pay someone a few bucks to solve this problem for me.
- BlackjackCF 9y agoI'm running into this issue right now. I'm moving, but I'm kind of stuck with leaving the couch inside instead of being able to put it out on the curb because it's illegal to leave large items on the curb, but large item pickup also doesn't happen until next Tuesday.
- dullgiulio 9y agoIt really is bad government. The city council should make a tender and have the local utility come and collect big items for free. That's how it works in the European city I come from. And the utility taxes are all but high.
- Consultant32452 9y agoBut I already do have large item pick-up funded by the city or whatever. I basically never use that service and have no idea when it is. My standard operating procedure is to just put this large eyesore out in my front yard and eventually the government will come pick it up. Either that, or often times private citizens will recycle whatever it is for money. So if this service rolls out in my area, I can either leave this large piece of garbage in my yard for a week or so waiting for the government to come pick it up, or I can open an app on my phone and have someone pick it up today.
- tssva 9y agoYearly contracts with a price set based upon an audit of the waste a business produces. Doesn't sound very "Uber" like.
- d0lph 9y agoThinking the same, this is not really an on-demand consumer focused service. > "A high-tech garbage service may sound ridiculous to the uninitiated. But it’s no joke to customers like WeWork, Whole Foods and SoulCycle that have signed multi-year contracts ..." > "TC: How do you charge? One fee for an unlimited number of on-demand pick-ups per month? GL: We establish yearly contracts, charging so much per month for an office space after we do an audit on the business and establish that it generates, say, 50 bags of garbage in a set amount of time. Everything above that then is extra."
- passivepinetree 9y agoIt's an unwritten societal law. Just like every coffee stand must include some sort of pun in the name, every news article about a startup must phrase the business model as $"{existingStartup} for {unrelatedProblem}."
- BillSaysThis 9y agoFor residential there's already companies like Junk King, 1-800=Got-Junk and the like. I moved twice in the last seven months and made use of a pickup service like this each time. Admittedly they might not be available in the moment but I had no problem with next day service.
- biggestlou 9y agoTime to kick your current waste management provider... TO THE CURB.
- fnord123 9y agoAt first I read this as "Uber for garage" and thought it would be about the excellent Parkopedia: http://www.parkopedia.com/ http://www.parkopedia.com/
- dyim 9y agoI'm rooting for these guys - it looks like their COO has been in waste management since 1999 (and, from the article, his family's been in it for decades). As a casual observer of "non-sexy" startups, I've noticed that these kinds of founding teams do well.
- kornish 9y agoWhat are some of your favorite "non-sexy" startups that you've casually observed?
- pbourke 9y agoFarmLogs and Flexport are two that seem neat from the outside (farming and logistics, respectively)
- dyim 9y agoReturnbase (reverse logistics), CropMetrics (agtech), Weather Analytics (ag. insurance), and Loop Support (customer support, shameless plug) come to mind. It's tough to "casually observe" startups because you can't flip through their 10-Ks, but you can think of individual startups metonymously - learn more about their industries, and then try to figure out why these startups are trying to use technology to make better products.
- jeddawson 9y agoThey will most certainly do well! They're essentially a Broker++ since they are treating the haulers as their customer too (or at least saying that). Brokerages have traditionally treated the haulers poorly so if they can get the relationship with the hauler right things should work out really well for them. Either way I predict success. Down the line they'll be acquired by Waste Management, Republic, or Waste Connections to become another Oak Leaf.
- jordache 9y agohow is garbage pickup fit with the on-demand model? How many people's garbage generation rate vary so much from cycle to cycle to make an on demand model worth while?
- skylark 9y ago> A high-tech garbage service may sound ridiculous to the uninitiated. But it’s no joke to customers like WeWork, Whole Foods and SoulCycle that have signed multi-year contracts in exchange for RTS’s flexible pricing options, along with notifications about when a truck has arrived and reports about exactly where their waste is being sent. Their target seems to be commercial waste removal, which seems like a better play than residential.
- mindslight 9y agoI really like this idea since, being "An Uber", they most certainly take a destination address. "Please go dump this garbage on city hall!". I just hope I don't have to leave my phone in the bag.
- nosequel 9y agoI'm confused, I thought "Uber for garbage" was just Uber.
- nebabyte 9y agoI mean, if you're garbage...
- xkcd-sucks 9y agoToo bad those stupid NIMBYS killed off 'AirBNB for landfills'
- ThomPete 9y agoCalling it 'Uber for garbage' does this business a great disservice. I believe this will be a great great business and borrows nothing from Uber anymore than from Taskrabbit or Postmates. The domain experience needed to understand the whole logistic should have made Techcrunch think twice about that headline. But sure clicks and all that.
- Animats 9y agoWhat, your garbage isn't picked up by robots yet? [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCTyasDmWrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCTyasDmWrs
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- zitterbewegung 9y agoOut of all the Uber for X things I have heard about this actually sounds viable. Having to go out and buy garbage stickers for random things is annoying. If I just have an app on my phone to do this not only would the experience would be better but I would have better feedback to assess if the thing I am throwing out would be accepted.
- koolba 9y agoThis is an awesome idea and if I had known about it would have used it last month. My garbage creation varies widely from next to nothing (default state) to significantly more than fits in a single pickup (lots of guests, back to back parties, etc). I'd pay a premium to get rid of the extra trash the next day rather than waiting till the next local pickup or spacing it out myself. Ditto for paying less for less often pickups.
- newobj 9y ago"Uber for garbage", aka what my grandfather's job used to be back when Philadelphia used privatized trash haulers. Genius guy that grandpa, as he was also a pig farmer, and the pigs loved to eat garbage...
- whatnotests 9y agoORGANIC garbage.
- CobrastanJorji 9y agoIs this not already a thing? I needed an old chair disposed of a few days ago, googled "Seattle Trash Removal", got like 10 results, and the next day somebody came by with a truck and took my chair away. Is this company different because they have an app? Because they offer speedier pickup?
- sabujp 9y agobecause they have an app and are probably going to be using unlicensed "contractors" to dump your garbage in unlicensed locations and call it industry disruption. I can already see the lawsuits.
- hammock 9y agoI needed a ride to the airport, I googled "taxi company," got like 10 results, and the next morning a car was waiting for me. Why do we need Uber? Just because it has an app?
- spraak 9y agoQED :P
- ryuker16 9y agoThat's resale companies that recycle or sell used goods. They often won't take pure trash on junk that can't be sold(food waste).
- olegkikin 9y agoWhat would stop an evil entity from picking up your garbage and dumping it in the nearby park / side of the road?
- jeddawson 9y agoThis is why we have the current level of regulation in the waste industry. It has lead to exclusive contracts with haulers that have to report their weights to a local authority. There are many areas with non-exclusive contracts too that allow some appearance of competition, but again only haulers that comply with a significant set of rules (and pay fees) are able to operate in the area. It's a double edged sword for sure. I'd love to see more open and creative competition in the industry, but since disposal and transportation costs make up such a huge % of a hauler's expenses there will certainly be corrupt entities dumping waste in a canyon somewhere just outside of your community. Tracking the waste from source to destination accurately and in a way that people can truly trust will certainly be a key to success here. It's worth noting that it is still very likely that some contracted and "compliant" haulers are doing things with your waste that they shouldn't. So that's another place that a start up could potentially differentiate themselves.
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- pritam2020 9y agoReminds me of its always sunny: https://youtu.be/wCQ1_vHvzGY?t=3m5s https://youtu.be/wCQ1_vHvzGY?t=3m5s
- cdolan 9y agoWhile potentially a useful service for a consumer, the majority of waste is generated by businesses, who already have access to comparable services with their current provider (except when a CRT tv is involved!) Seems this company raised based off an old business model of 1800 Got Junk and Junk King, on the coat tails of Rubicon Global's massive fundraising amount.
- shiftoutbox 9y agoShut this stupid joke of a business down and force municipalities to do this once and for all. We all know how Uber was trying to be profitable. Hire anybody to do the job of a cabbie for less .
- backtoyoujim 9y agoI wonder what is the reality of organized crime being a part of the contemporary garbage collection and recycling landscape. And I wonder if these two have had any cover from it.
- shados 9y agoGimme one that will take non-standard trash. I can already just call Got Junk and have them take most things. However, the canisters of paints and other crap that needs to be dropped at special locations? They won't take those. Since I don't own a car (by choice), I'm essentially screwed. The disposal locations are only on very specific days with bad hours, and usually in the middle of nowhere. It's the only thing I can't easily do without driving. Get me someone who will pick all that shit up and they'll get all my money.
- maxaf 9y agoWhile the paint canisters are definitely a doozy, I've successfully disposed of "weird" things by offering them to the masses via FreeCycle and Craigslist's "free" section. Someone is guaranteed to show up at your home in order to pick up the most useless of objects. I've given away awkwardly sized furniture, old barely working TVs, and other such crap. The capacity of humans to scramble for trash is truly breathtaking.
- tsomctl 9y agoAnd when they grow bored with it, they either dump it outside, or let their landlord deal with it when they move out. Meth, not even once.
- eggy 9y agoMy jaw dropped when I saw the headline thinking an idea of mine had not fell on deaf ears. Then I realized it was just another instance of parallel development of ideas. Over two years ago when I was living in a rice farming village in Java, Indonesia, and was very upset about all the trash being put in pits or burned since there was no garbage pickup I thought of an 'Uber for garbage' app and business model. The garbage was becoming worse, because people were hauling goods back to their village an opening up small stands with mostly junk - soda, candy and plastic toys, and nowhere to send the waste. Recyclers or garbage pickup could become efficient and lucrative for the small truck recyclers and scrappers, if villages could request a pickup and any available driver could accept and create his route for the day. Uber for garbage pickup and recycling was how I referred to it to people at airports, and anybody who would listen. Their idea is similar but more of a money-maker catering to first world businesses like Whole Foods. I hope it can branch out and become successful in the villages around the world for the local economies too. I wish them luck and prosperity.
- mikesickler 9y agoI love this idea. Waste Management is the big player in my region, and I've been very dissatisfied with them. They'll jack up the prices, I have no confidence that their 'single stream' collection results in effective recycling, and their pricing is completely opaque. This is a classic disruptive solution and I wish them the best!
- axaxs 9y agoI live in a city with 4 competing trash services, WM being one of the largest. There's been countless small players start up here, and it really is a lucrative business. WM bought them all.
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- partycoder 9y agoYou know, waste management is not so trivial in some cases. Some items are classified as hazardous materials, and it's hard to get rid of them. You need to do a dump run, but many platforms do not allow you to do business involving hazardous materials (e.g: Craigslist). I hope they have an answer to that. e.g: Getting rid of batteries and such.
- awad 9y agoIf they started in New York and their major customers tend to be other flashy companies I seriously worry about their long term viability. I know that tech folks like to think they have the answer to everything, especially with asset-light software based companies, but for very many reasons waste management in the North East isn't that simple.
- Pica_soO 9y agoA private garbage initiatives: They had those in italy for quite a while. And they are always cheaper. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/3b7m9n/the-mob-made-southen-italy-a-toxic-wasteland-0000555-v22n1 https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/3b7m9n/the-mob-made-south...
- dyeje 9y agoI recently had to get rid of a lot of concrete and lumber. Turns out it's a big pain and really expensive. Wouldn't be surprised if something like this took off.
- ryuker16 9y agoPost on Craigslist, somebody will take it.
- qwepoiru 9y ago> uber for garbage. > yearly contracts. ok.
- sschueller 9y agoSo if they run their business like Uber there will be no difference between them and the mob.
- agumonkey 9y agoThe society is shedding into the ubiquitous network era like a snake.
- OliverJones 9y agoHmmm. I wonder how trash haulers are going to take to having a big chunk of their profit margin extracted by Sili Valley style investors? Uber drivers seem to go for it, but not without grumbling.
- jeddawson 9y agoI think it will really depend on how they approach and work with the haulers. It sounds like they are providing them with an app that will help them manage their other accounts more efficiently so some haulers might really enjoy the trade off. Also, it's important to view this initiative as a rebirth of the waste broker. They're already super common in the industry handling the waste collection services for all the locations of large corporations, they negotiate with haulers to service each site then make sure services are performed. They tack on a fee for streamlining/managing this service for each company. One of the larger brokers was purchased by Waste Management a few years ago. Since WM is a hauler too, they're now gathering tons of data about each market that can be used when bidding against smaller/independent haulers. Lot's of haulers would be happy to help another broker succeed to get WM out of their affairs.
- EADGBE 9y agoCurrently renovating my home, while maintaining a full-time position and being a dad, blah, blah, blah. Point is, I don't have a lot of time, but with focus can accomplish one messy project after another over time. Renting a dumpster will go unused for most of the time I've rented it for; it'll also cost $400-$500 it seems. I don't have an HOA, but I'd bet I'd only be able to choose from the nicest (read: pricy-est) waste management companies and have little time with it in my driveway. Getting those "Bagster" things is pretty cool, but kinda steep considering I have to buy the bag(s) and each one will cost $100-$150 to remove. This is a much better solution than using my 2-car garage as a holding tank until I get a "dumpster's worth" of crap to throw away. While people are put off by "Uber for X", sometimes it just makes sense, and makes people's lives better.
- mox1 9y agoReading the article, this seems geared towards commercial customers. Their pricing model is based on yearly contracts... As someone who has used the Bagster myself, I found it very convenient and easy to use. Purchase the bag, go online to the website, pay and schedule the pickup. I thought the price was fair, compared to the alternatives.
- buro9 9y agoA YCombinator S09 company was in this market, Tuxebo. They were looking to connect people to local companies that offered refuse collection and disposal, etc.
- jeddawson 9y agoI did some googling to see how it worked out for them and found this: https://blog.listia.com/2011/01/16/a-startup-turning-trash-into-treasure/ https://blog.listia.com/2011/01/16/a-startup-turning-trash-i... From that it looks like their domain isn't in use now so my assumption is they closed up shop. Does anyone know if they pivoted further out of refuse market or were acquired by someone?
- akgerber 9y ago"mid-size, independent haulers" in NYC are truly awful drivers. They regularly violate every single rule of the road— I recently saw one signal a right turn, then proceed to turn left and pull a 360 in the intersection while almost hitting a motorcyclist. Then this driver drove the wrong way down the road in order to a get a bit closer to a load of garbage without having to go around the block. It's a business that externalizes its costs by driving dangerously and killing people: http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/07/13/see-a-pattern-of-deadly-dump-trucks-don%E2%80%99t-bother-federal-safety-officials/ http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/07/13/see-a-pattern-of-deadl...
- yitchelle 9y agoCoincidentally, I just listened the pitch podcast S2 E3 where the company Industrial Organics was also describing themselves as Uber for Garbage. However, they are niching into garbage from restaurant kitchens. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/industrial-organic-s02-ep03/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/industrial-organic-s02-ep03/