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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by yeukhon »

nacs wrote: post #120
throwaway13337 wrote: post #99

From what I gather from the other comments, it looks like most likely Homejoy's liquidator (Nortonsgroup) has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow. Homeaglow copied and rebranded their own tech as Fly Maids to service this user list.

> has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow Sold it with credit card numbers attached though? That sounds awfully.. illegal even for a liquidation.

See http://www.pcworld.com/article/2901028/radioshack-puts-custo...

Interestingly it has been legal in one case.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by nedwin »

aarontcheung wrote: post #125

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…

Are any of the other cofounders or team joining you in FlyMaids?

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by JoblessWonder »

aarontcheung wrote: post #125

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…

Is your business actually registered anywhere? If so, under what name? Thanks!

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by Balgair »

aarontcheung wrote: post #125

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…

Welp, might as well ask if no-one else is: What do you mean by 'exploring a few different angles on the space'? How is you new service going to be better than Home Joy or different? Essentially, considering what happened to Home Joy, why is it going to be different this time around? Great job on Home Joy the first time 'round, btw.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by jarek »

Balgair wrote: post #135
aarontcheung wrote: post #125

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…

Welp, might as well ask if no-one else is: What do you mean by 'exploring a few different angles on the space'? How is you new service going to be better than Home Joy or different? Essentially, considering what happened to Home Joy, why is it going to be different this time around? Great job on Home Joy the first time 'round, btw.

Lowering costs by ripping competitors' HTML, CSS, and copy

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by fleitz »

Balgair wrote: post #135
aarontcheung wrote: post #125

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…

Welp, might as well ask if no-one else is: What do you mean by 'exploring a few different angles on the space'? How is you new service going to be better than Home Joy or different? Essentially, considering what happened to Home Joy, why is it going to be different this time around? Great job on Home Joy the first time 'round, btw.

Same great technology, less debt / more equity.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by grossvogel »

ericsidelis wrote: post #102

The fact that I can still log in is scaring me, I never signed up for this and nor did I even get an email. My credit card details which are valid are still present. I find it hard to believe this information was sold and if it was, were they storing credit card info in plain string format. Wouldn't each of those businesses need an encryption key to decrypt secure card numbers. Wonder if they sold that too. Either wa…

Third party processors will store the card info securely and then provide only parts of it back to you via an API call. Stripe's API includes the last 4 and expiration date, as you can see here[1], so Fly Maids may not have all of that data.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api#cards

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by nacs »

yeukhon wrote: post #131
nacs wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow Sold it with credit card numbers attached though? That sounds awfully.. illegal even for a liquidation.

See http://www.pcworld.com/article/2901028/radioshack-puts-custo... Interestingly it has been legal in one case.

Not really, FTC didn't like it:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/19/news/companies/radioshack-cu...

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Post by iamcurious »

aarontcheung wrote: post #125

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…

I'm starting to read "passionate about" as "wanting to make money of". I have to make an effort to read it in the classical sense. I fear the same will happen with "share". And when my kids talk about sharing at school I will only think of flooding with memes or of selling things.

Now, I'm not a native english speaker, so I can't say if aarontcheung is misusing the term or not. Is this change happening to the english culture as a whole? Or am I reading way too many silicon valley articles?

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