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I met Sasan and Heidar at the hackathon where they first built TruckPlease. Neat concept that definitely solves a problem, and they're smart/friendly guys!

Super curious what their plans are to monetize (it looks like TP is currently completely free)?

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Hey, Matt! Great seeing you on here and thanks for the kind words :)

Right now we're completely free but we have a lot of ideas for monetization. One of them being handling payments and taking a cut and another would be to sell optional related services, like moving/rental insurance, cleaning services, and moving supplies.

Insurance on the moving is pretty interesting, though I'd worry about fraud eventually being an issue.

Yeah that's definitely a great point. To start, we'd probably just sell through a 3rd party insurer and let their underwriters deal with that!

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