HN Exercise: We're the Hipmunk for X

"We're the hipmunk for X"

Replace the X with what you think is the next industry that should have an aggregated price quote engine.

I asked that before - there are a couple of these. http://www.thedealmap.com/

We're the Hipmunk for Used Cars

We're the Hipmunk for Real Estate

We're the Hipmunk for Vacation/Tour Packages

We're the Hipmunk for Technical Books

We're the Hipmunk for Matchmaking/Dating

I think the Matchmaking/Dating one could be sorted by Agony. (Most likely to respond to your witty message).

We're the Hipmunk for Drink Specials (weekly view)

You can see which bars have specials which day/time and optimize a schedule to refrain from being sober all week.

Or you could optimize for Live Bands, themes, ladies night, etc.

The used cars one is www.carwoo.com

I think what this subject is really interesting because people are always looking and needing to buy things. So, making a marketplace for businesses is very interesting when the marketplace says "We're going to give you an unlimited amount of leads for this monthly fee". Those leads could be worth $1 mill for the LTV (Life Time Value) of that customer you attained.

From the consumer's side - we're already seeing it through the group buying sites (groupon, living social), but now we're looking for the "Niche" sites that do the same thing. I believe there is a big market for this and its already proven.

About a year ago, I thought there could be a site with these features using the twitter/facebook api for leads. Something like SocialLeads.com - name your price and have people fight for your business by outbidding each other. Like google does, but for niche markets and in reverse - for social.

Contact me if you want to dialogue about this...