The attack of TaskRabbit clones

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20 points·jackyyappp··8 comments

In late 2006, early 2007 I worked on a site like TaskRabbit, but it was called Oddjobr.com (or oddjobr.net but I think I had both to be honest). I let the domain go (apparently it was picked up), but at the time I had a mostly working website up and running (it was a software lifecycle class project - with a team of just myself). It was a reverse auction though, bidding on jobs.

Are you sure these are clones? I didn't check em all out, but just throwing out that if I thought of this idea independently, it is likely others have too.

I kicked one of these around in 2007-ish as well - the idea by itself isn't incredibly unique. What's new is the level of focus and quality of execution. They may not be copying Task Rabbit exclusively, but it's no longer a space populated entirely with hobby projects.

What about Exec?

Exec isn't so much a task rabbit clone, yes it's a similar concept to TaskRabbit but they've in my opinion improved the concept and TaskRabbit is far from dominant.

In Germany and the UK Milk.ly is quite big and has a much better looking Interface, that's why TaskRabbit is pushing for a London launch asap to compete.

It's an article focused on Singapore. Exec hasn't launched in Singapore yet afaik.

I feel Exec is a niche of what TaskRabbit is aiming to do

The model is simple and easy to replicate, so it makes sense that it's being cloned.

I personally know of 2 TaskRabbit clones that are in development here in Toronto..

Anything in France (paris) ?

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