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Ask HN: What will be “uber-ified” next?

16 points by debuasca 12y ago

It seems like a current trend is to rent out things / provide services of your own. Uber, couchsurf, airbnb, homeaway, etc... I wanted to ask HN what you think will be uber-ified next?

s_q_b 12y ago
Here's some ideas: Laundering Clothes: Please somebody find a way to do this affordably for laundry. There's Wash.io and local laundromats that deliver, but it can't possibly cost several hundred dollars to wash and fold a few dozen tees, hoodies, and jeans. Maid Service: This is essentially what Task Rabbit has become already, but their review system is lacking and there's no guarantee someone won't steal your TV. There an established market here, but it needs a reputation system and some sort of small insurance backing. Yes, I need to clean my apartment right now.
- kcole16 12y ago
  HomeJoy is pretty awesome
  - cobrabyte 12y ago
    Thanks for this... I've been needing to get a cleaning service going on my place and these guys look fairly rock-solid.
- rwhitman 12y ago
  Here in NYC I see the van for these guys all over the friggin place, not sure how affordable tho (I have laundry in my building): http://flycleaners.com/ http://flycleaners.com/ For maid service https://www.homejoy.com/ https://www.homejoy.com/ is a YC company
  - cylinder 12y ago
    Nobody use flycleaners, they are a joke. Look up their Yelp reviews, almost all are 1-star and many have lost thousands of dollars of clothes.
fitzc 12y ago
The labor market/knowledge economy => Uber for your brain. Key drivers: 1) Large amount of idle intellectual capital. 2) Changing affinity between employer and employee. 3) High acquisition cost of intellectual capital. 4) Inefficient pricing of expertise. 5) Inefficient validation of expertise. Further explanation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-your-brain-fitih-cinnor-phd https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-your-brain-fitih-cinnor-...
jhildings 12y ago
One hour deliveries of most things in Stockholm, Sweden http://urb-it.com/ http://urb-it.com/ An easy thing to export to other cities
- debuasca 12y ago
  I see Amazon is getting into a similar space.
  - tylermac1 12y ago
    Already are. http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8729023011 http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8729023011
Someone1234 12y ago
Prostitution.
- yellowapple 12y ago
  Isn't that what Tinder is? ;)
kylelibra 12y ago
I saw "uber for movers" the other day, struck me as a good idea. (http://lu.gg http://lu.gg)
acelik 12y ago
Looks like Uber uberified the cargo business. http://blog.uber.com/UberCARGO http://blog.uber.com/UberCARGO
chippy 12y ago
Waste / Refuse collection.
rwhitman 12y ago
Some thoughts I've had: - Pets on-demand. Want a puppy for a half hour? - Shovel out my car. A little too seasonal however. - Serious one: Healthcare and on-demand tech is going to be huge, particularly for geriatrics, but regulation is probably going to make it slow-going. There are a few players in this space but it needs an explosion of adoption. Boomers are aging and there are going to be a lot of immobile old people out there. Tangential sidebar - if anyone here is working on a business in this space, reach out to me. A great engineer and myself are exploring specializing in "Uber for X" infrastructure - either consulting services or developing reusable software packages around it and we'd love to talk to you.
- hjhehi 12y ago
  http://www.puppiesforrent.com/ http://www.puppiesforrent.com/ already exists
  - rwhitman 12y ago
    Dammit!
- cylinder 12y ago
  How do I get in contact with you? Your personal site is down. I'm also in NYC, btw.
  - rwhitman 12y ago
    Hmm, were you looking at http://rwds.co http://rwds.co ? Looks like it's been restored if it was down before. (Random downtime is unfortunately somewhat typical for the MediaTemple server it's hosted on) You can reach me at ron@ above mentioned .co domain. Sorry for being cryptic, the spammers who scrape HN tend to be gmail filter-resistant..
api 12y ago
Crime.

16 points by debuasca 12y ago

It seems like a current trend is to rent out things / provide services of your own. Uber, couchsurf, airbnb, homeaway, etc... I wanted to ask HN what you think will be uber-ified next?

s_q_b 12y ago

Here's some ideas: Laundering Clothes: Please somebody find a way to do this affordably for laundry. There's Wash.io and local laundromats that deliver, but it can't possibly cost several hundred dollars to wash and fold a few dozen tees, hoodies, and jeans. Maid Service: This is essentially what Task Rabbit has become already, but their review system is lacking and there's no guarantee someone won't steal your TV. There an established market here, but it needs a reputation system and some sort of small insurance backing. Yes, I need to clean my apartment right now.

kcole16 12y ago
HomeJoy is pretty awesome
- cobrabyte 12y ago
  Thanks for this... I've been needing to get a cleaning service going on my place and these guys look fairly rock-solid.
rwhitman 12y ago
Here in NYC I see the van for these guys all over the friggin place, not sure how affordable tho (I have laundry in my building): http://flycleaners.com/ http://flycleaners.com/ For maid service https://www.homejoy.com/ https://www.homejoy.com/ is a YC company
- cylinder 12y ago
  Nobody use flycleaners, they are a joke. Look up their Yelp reviews, almost all are 1-star and many have lost thousands of dollars of clothes.

fitzc 12y ago

The labor market/knowledge economy => Uber for your brain. Key drivers: 1) Large amount of idle intellectual capital. 2) Changing affinity between employer and employee. 3) High acquisition cost of intellectual capital. 4) Inefficient pricing of expertise. 5) Inefficient validation of expertise. Further explanation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-your-brain-fitih-cinnor-phd https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-your-brain-fitih-cinnor-...

jhildings 12y ago

One hour deliveries of most things in Stockholm, Sweden http://urb-it.com/ http://urb-it.com/ An easy thing to export to other cities

debuasca 12y ago
I see Amazon is getting into a similar space.
- tylermac1 12y ago
  Already are. http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8729023011 http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8729023011

Someone1234 12y ago

Prostitution.

yellowapple 12y ago
Isn't that what Tinder is? ;)

kylelibra 12y ago

I saw "uber for movers" the other day, struck me as a good idea. (http://lu.gg http://lu.gg)

acelik 12y ago

Looks like Uber uberified the cargo business. http://blog.uber.com/UberCARGO http://blog.uber.com/UberCARGO

chippy 12y ago

Waste / Refuse collection.

rwhitman 12y ago

Some thoughts I've had: - Pets on-demand. Want a puppy for a half hour? - Shovel out my car. A little too seasonal however. - Serious one: Healthcare and on-demand tech is going to be huge, particularly for geriatrics, but regulation is probably going to make it slow-going. There are a few players in this space but it needs an explosion of adoption. Boomers are aging and there are going to be a lot of immobile old people out there. Tangential sidebar - if anyone here is working on a business in this space, reach out to me. A great engineer and myself are exploring specializing in "Uber for X" infrastructure - either consulting services or developing reusable software packages around it and we'd love to talk to you.

hjhehi 12y ago
http://www.puppiesforrent.com/ http://www.puppiesforrent.com/ already exists
- rwhitman 12y ago
  Dammit!
cylinder 12y ago
How do I get in contact with you? Your personal site is down. I'm also in NYC, btw.
- rwhitman 12y ago
  Hmm, were you looking at http://rwds.co http://rwds.co ? Looks like it's been restored if it was down before. (Random downtime is unfortunately somewhat typical for the MediaTemple server it's hosted on) You can reach me at ron@ above mentioned .co domain. Sorry for being cryptic, the spammers who scrape HN tend to be gmail filter-resistant..

api 12y ago

Crime.