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Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
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Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first comment, while maybe a bit "snarky", is still very relevant and right on point. The first line of your response is why you're getting down voted. Little bit of snark > calling a comment lame.
But being snarkily sarcastic is lame while calling something out straightforwardly is not.
I'd say the downvotes you're receiving might mean this community disagrees with you... but I'm just a messenger. You asked the question.
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#33I'm confused. Purple Tie does laundry at $1.69/lb (10 lb minimum, so $16.90 minimum) and also does pick-up at home. How is this better?
It's a startup funded by YC, duh.
This is an extravagance that should embarrass any user of the service and anyone involved with providing the service.
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#34Come on, Xuwen. You run a laundry service. Your shirt should not look like it's spent the last week on your floor. The guy with the faux hawk is wearing a shirt that looks how I want my shirts to look. The very least you can do is use your own product and show why it rocks, and that means wearing a freshly cleaned shirt.
Kill youreself
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#35Why is this on tech crunch at all? This is not a tech business or even special in anyway.....
You don't need any VC money to do this....this is like running a baby sitting service....
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#36I would have loved this service when I was in grad school. I lived a mile from the nearest laundromat, and I would have to put a load in my backpack and truck it over on my bike. Laundry took literally all day to do. Add in bad Florida weather and the experience was downright miserable.
I wonder if it would be cheaper to crowdsource laundry service, like an airbnb for laundry. My washer is unused all day and it would be awesome if I could rent it out. My roommate tends to be at home too during odds times of the day and probably would be willing to do loads if it meant getting paid a nice fee.
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#37Yet another startup that caters to the 20 something tech crowd with too much disposable income and too little free time on their hands. Do people in Silicon Valley ever leave spend time outside Silicon Valley?
As fellow (hopefully that's a safe assumption) an outsider looking in, I have to agree with this. It also just generally frustrates and disappoints me that so many brilliant young developers and entrepreneurs spend their time fixing textbook first world problems instead of addressing the poverty, disease, crime, and unrest which still plagues the world.
entrepreneurs look for problems with money in mind.
philanthropists look for money with problems in mind.
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#38Yet another startup that caters to the 20 something tech crowd with too much disposable income and too little free time on their hands. Do people in Silicon Valley ever leave spend time outside Silicon Valley?
As fellow (hopefully that's a safe assumption) an outsider looking in, I have to agree with this. It also just generally frustrates and disappoints me that so many brilliant young developers and entrepreneurs spend their time fixing textbook first world problems instead of addressing the poverty, disease, crime, and unrest which still plagues the world.
I don't have any of the problems or any perspective or any idea of how to solve them with technology since they seem to be largely social problems.
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#39Yet another startup that caters to the 20 something tech crowd with too much disposable income and too little free time on their hands. Do people in Silicon Valley ever leave spend time outside Silicon Valley?
Considering that they mention a service in Los Angeles and the very specialized and expansive market in NYC (that serves WAY more than a privileged 20-something tech crowd), your characterization seems a bit unfair.
When they launch in Peoria, let me know.
Re: Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome
#40I think the last sentence of the faq has a typo:
> We will bend over backgrounds to resolve your concerns.