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Supplies included? That alone is surprisingly difficult to find. If I was still in Manhattan, I'd sign up right away.
This is one of those services that doesn't make sense to me as a mobile first & only product(for now). If you are home and see that your house needs to be cleaned, you are probably near a computer. This isnt like Uber where you need to use their service across town. They have just alienated a bunch or their potential user base by just being on iOS (for now, ok whatever). But that's just me. Here is the link to the ap…
1) only needs maid service occasionally, and not on a fixed schedule
2) needs maid service fast, when they do need it
3) is willing to take a risk on the quality, and hoping that the premium price they pay is an indication that they'll get quality service.
So ... I'm thinking the target audience is bachelors, people who don't frequently entertain at home, etc.
The one thing that would worry me, as a customer, is whether the by-the-hour payment model might tempt the maids to work slower.
This service is GREAT for a person who: 1) only needs maid service occasionally, and not on a fixed schedule 2) needs maid service fast, when they do need it 3) is willing to take a risk on the quality, and hoping that the premium price they pay is an indication that they'll get quality service. So ... I'm thinking the target audience is bachelors, people who don't frequently entertain at home, etc. The one thing tha…
They purposefully work slower, they don't come next time.
Supplies included? That alone is surprisingly difficult to find. If I was still in Manhattan, I'd sign up right away.
Was about to say after living 2 years. Never seen anyone on subway with cleaning supplies lol. I have no idea how would they go by car where most areas you can cruise for 2 hours before findng a spot and that alone will cost you dollars or tens of dollars. Anyone care to explain?
For reference to those who don't live in NYC, this is following the Uber pricing model fairly well -- it's about double what most "good" maids charge, maybe triple depending on the area of NYC. It's a good idea -- maid service can be commoditized, and particularly if you need a last-minute sort of thing, it seems smart. It's also notoriously difficult to find a good maid without playing the traditional "networking" g…
Unless Get Maid can provide the users and maids with enough useful features that they see a value in keeping the long-term-arrangement through the system.
e.g. convenient (recurring) payment processing, giving maids increased visibility in one-off job searches based on number of long-term relationships, centralizing maid scheduling [1], factoring maid schedules into one-off job availability, factoring required commute time/distance into job feasibility [2], seamless arrangement of Maid-approved 'fill-in' Maids when they need to take time off or something comes up, centralized 'gig notes' that would be made accessible to any in-system fill-in maids [3], etc.
There's plenty of opportunity for Get Maid to make a compelling pitch to keep everything in-system.
[1] keys being: allowing the maid to set 'availability' to reflect their personal-life scheduling demands (including vacations and such), keeping all job schedules in one place, automatically keeping this calendar up-to-date on their smartphone, etc.
[2] A maid may technically be available at 3pm for another job, but if the 3pm job is uptown and she just wrapped a weekly 2pm gig downtown, it's not going to work. Keeping everything in-system will spare users the hassle of contacting maids who can't actually make the scheduled time and spare the maids the hassle of seeing jobs they can't actually take.
[3] how the client likes the laundry done, high-traffic areas, etc.
This service is GREAT for a person who: 1) only needs maid service occasionally, and not on a fixed schedule 2) needs maid service fast, when they do need it 3) is willing to take a risk on the quality, and hoping that the premium price they pay is an indication that they'll get quality service. So ... I'm thinking the target audience is bachelors, people who don't frequently entertain at home, etc. The one thing tha…
For reference to those who don't live in NYC, this is following the Uber pricing model fairly well -- it's about double what most "good" maids charge, maybe triple depending on the area of NYC. It's a good idea -- maid service can be commoditized, and particularly if you need a last-minute sort of thing, it seems smart. It's also notoriously difficult to find a good maid without playing the traditional "networking" g…
> "The biggest issue I see is the risk of extra-market activity" Unless Get Maid can provide the users and maids with enough useful features that they see a value in keeping the long-term-arrangement through the system. e.g. convenient (recurring) payment processing, giving maids increased visibility in one-off job searches based on number of long-term relationships, centralizing maid scheduling [1], factoring maid s…
For reference to those who don't live in NYC, this is following the Uber pricing model fairly well -- it's about double what most "good" maids charge, maybe triple depending on the area of NYC. It's a good idea -- maid service can be commoditized, and particularly if you need a last-minute sort of thing, it seems smart. It's also notoriously difficult to find a good maid without playing the traditional "networking" g…