TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
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Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#2Remember when TaskRabbit launched followed by a hundred clones?
Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#3I think collaborative consumption companies changing their business to focus on a specific niche or vertical is quite common. Getable (fka Rentcycle) did it. Zaarly did it.
I'm head of sales at balancedpayments.com, a payments company that works with online marketplaces, so I interact with dozens of marketplace founders in a given week, and in my opinion the true P2P/collaborative consumption movement is a few years away.
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Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#4Remember when TaskRabbit launched followed by a hundred clones?
I actually have a hard time thinking of clones in this space (not counting general freelance sites like odesk and fiverr)...who was TaskRabbit's biggest competitor (not counting Zaarly, which also pivoted)
Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#5I think collaborative consumption companies changing their business to focus on a specific niche or vertical is quite common. Getable (fka Rentcycle) did it. Zaarly did it. I'm head of sales at balancedpayments.com, a payments company that works with online marketplaces, so I interact with dozens of marketplace founders in a given week, and in my opinion the true P2P/collaborative consumption movement is a few years…
The problem of Taskrabbit is that they could not be associated with one clear repeatable need that people had, which lead to a sub par experience for almost all use cases.
Most marketplaces in this space are pretty "directed" by the Company (Postmates: deliver food, Instacart: delivery grocery, Lyft: deliver people with car, HomeJoy: deliver cleaning ladies).
Lyft is a good example of a P2P system that worked when everybody before them failed because Zimride "directed" the marketplace when all previous tentative where about "grab people on your way to work".
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#6Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#7Maybe the new people can make an iPhone app that doesn't crash every time I try to use it, and lets me message people who bid on tasks?
The web version works fine, but the mobile version has serious issues.
I'm almost certain that whatever they're doing, this is an example of where a v2.0 rewrite makes sense.
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#8I make good money on TaskRabbit. I hope it doesn;t move too far away for a "Regular guy" like me to make use of it...
Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#9I think collaborative consumption companies changing their business to focus on a specific niche or vertical is quite common. Getable (fka Rentcycle) did it. Zaarly did it. I'm head of sales at balancedpayments.com, a payments company that works with online marketplaces, so I interact with dozens of marketplace founders in a given week, and in my opinion the true P2P/collaborative consumption movement is a few years…
The problem of Taskrabbit is that they could not be associated with one clear repeatable need that people had, which lead to a sub par experience for almost all use cases. Most marketplaces in this space are pretty "directed" by the Company (Postmates: deliver food, Instacart: delivery grocery, Lyft: deliver people with car, HomeJoy: deliver cleaning ladies). Lyft is a good example of a P2P system that worked when ev…
Great point. As co-founder of Scripted, I whole-heartedly agree.
I think Leah is great -- I've never met her but have heard and read good things. However it's hard to be one size fits all anymore. Craigslist and oDesk may be the last two marketplace leaders without single focus.
Re: TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise
#10Remember when TaskRabbit launched followed by a hundred clones?
I actually have a hard time thinking of clones in this space (not counting general freelance sites like odesk and fiverr)...who was TaskRabbit's biggest competitor (not counting Zaarly, which also pivoted)
www.taskisland.com
http://taskpandas.com/
https://sortedlocal.com/
etc... there are lots