Ask HN: What will be “uber-ified” next?
It seems like a current trend is to rent out things / provide services of your own. Uber, couchsurf, airbnb, homeaway, etc... I wanted to ask HN what you think will be uber-ified next?
Key drivers:
1) Large amount of idle intellectual capital.
2) Changing affinity between employer and employee.
3) High acquisition cost of intellectual capital.
4) Inefficient pricing of expertise.
5) Inefficient validation of expertise.
Further explanation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-your-brain-fitih-cinnor-...
An easy thing to export to other cities
Laundering Clothes:
Please somebody find a way to do this affordably for laundry. There's Wash.io and local laundromats that deliver, but it can't possibly cost several hundred dollars to wash and fold a few dozen tees, hoodies, and jeans.
Maid Service:
This is essentially what Task Rabbit has become already, but their review system is lacking and there's no guarantee someone won't steal your TV. There an established market here, but it needs a reputation system and some sort of small insurance backing.
Yes, I need to clean my apartment right now.
For maid service https://www.homejoy.com/ is a YC company
- Pets on-demand. Want a puppy for a half hour?
- Shovel out my car. A little too seasonal however.
- Serious one: Healthcare and on-demand tech is going to be huge, particularly for geriatrics, but regulation is probably going to make it slow-going. There are a few players in this space but it needs an explosion of adoption. Boomers are aging and there are going to be a lot of immobile old people out there.
Tangential sidebar - if anyone here is working on a business in this space, reach out to me.
A great engineer and myself are exploring specializing in "Uber for X" infrastructure - either consulting services or developing reusable software packages around it and we'd love to talk to you.
You can reach me at ron@ above mentioned .co domain. Sorry for being cryptic, the spammers who scrape HN tend to be gmail filter-resistant..