This startup out of NYC is doing something similar: www.smallknot.com (I saw a rep give a talk at a TechStars-hosted local business event). This is the kind of

This startup out of NYC is doing something similar: www.smallknot.com (I saw a rep give a talk at a TechStars-hosted local business event). This is the kind of thing that's hard to do on a nationwide basis so there's plenty of opportunity to do something similar in other markets, I'm sure! Local business tech is hard: inherently more human sales required per dollar of revenue generally. But clearly it's the way to create lots of small-medium sized businesses with local specialties.