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douglascludlow

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douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Free / reduced price housekeeping (subsidized by in-home advertising)
Good question. You can obviously just hand out stuff door to door - however, the vast majority of those samples get thrown away.

Here, you can put a shampoo sample directly in their shower, or a yogurt same in their refrigerator. Advertisers will pay far more for that, allowing us to subsidize home services.

douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Free / reduced price housekeeping (subsidized by in-home advertising)
Great - send me an email at doug@thehappyhome.co, and I'll set you up.
douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
Drop me a note at Doug (at) thehappyhome.co - I'll set you up with a free week, and answer any questions that you might have.
douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
What area do you live in?
douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
I can arrange that, and give you your first cleaning for free. Drop me a note at doug (at) thehappyhome.co
douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
Thats a great price on laundry! Where are you based out of?
douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
My thoughts on your questions:

-The people on the ground would be "Home Managers" - background checked, trained, W2 employees.

-Laundry includes wash and fold, done off site.

-Dinner - You can choose if you want delivery, or if you'd like to cook.

-You can scale up the price, or scale down in the future. This can be done for the whole family - we're thinking an additional $15 for kids, and $20 for another adult.

If you'd like to give this a try for free for a week, send me a note at doug (at) thehappyhome.co

douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
If you'd like to try this out for a week for free, email me at doug@thehappyhome.co.
douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
$25 per person, $15 for kids. You could certainly do this all yourself - however, using us, all you'd have to do is approve / edit a plan we'll send you for the week, and we handle it all from there.

The economic impact would be exactly the same - however, you'd save a lot of time and hassle with us.

douglascludlow··on Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
We'd learn your food preferences, allergies, etc. We'd also ask the days you'd like to get food delivered, days you'd like to cook, and then days you'd like to go out.

We'd then present a menu for the week for your approval / edit.