Domestic cleaner website Idea - What problems do you see?

[Fab89]

I have an idea of making a website people use to find domestic cleaners in their local area.

The cleaners will be self employed and register on the website as a cleaner dictating what they want to charge and any other aspect of their job.

I don't like how agencies take most of the money from cleaners so it would be good to only take a small cut each time they are paid.

What problems do you think I should be looking into to start with? Issues I can think of so far is getting people to trust unknown cleaners without a reference. I'm not sure what will happen if the cleaner commits a crime in a person house too.

 

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[powderhound100]

Research Homejoy, I believe it was one of the fastest growing YC companies, but then it shut down (not sure why, I haven't researched it myself.)

If you are looking into getting into that space, checkout the resources from localcasestudy if you haven't seen it already:

From an idea to replacing my full-time salary in 4 months. How I did it, and what's next! • r/Entrepreneur

4 years ago I wrote a case study on reddit on my $4k per month local business. I've since built that company into a multi-million dollar company and the redditors that followed are now doing a combined $50 million dollars per year! Updated case study and AMA. • r/Entrepreneur

Best of luck.

 

[Fab89]

Thanks for the info. I think Homejoy had problems with their company being a gig economy.

I didn't even know what a gig economy was. After looking it up it seems like there are a lot of problems with it in the UK (where I live) and starting to happen more in the USA.

I wan't to just make a website and an app people can use and I have no interest in hiring people from around the country and world to clean for me. I could possibly target domestic cleaning companies.

Also just found that Google has hired loads of people from Homejoy to start a home cleaning service. Amazon have started home services too.

Maybe this idea isn't that good after all.