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by bdangubic 544 days ago
find a way to flip direction of all home improvement and repairs. e.g. right now:

- I have $80,000 to renovate my kitchen

- there are A LOT of companies that will want this job

- however, it is ME, the person with all the money that needs to spend enormous amount of time trying to find companies on angi and google and yelp and god knows where else

- I have to keep notes or shit as different companies come to my house to give me quote, send me emails with 3D models and whatever

- then I have to in some way parse through all that to pick a company for this job

what I want is a place to post this job and then have companies fight over this job, submit proposals etc… with some AI bullshit to sift through and help me decide. then I want to be able to negotiate price by pitting one proposal against another to get the best thing for the best price

note that this is applicable to both large and small jobs, this example above works well even if the job is as simple as toilet replacement or snaking my pipes.

and of course this could work for other things, not just home improvement… “I have $75k budget and am looking for a pre-owned luxury car…” - dealerships come to me vs. me spending 11 weekends driving around or “I have 3500sq ft home in 22040 zipcode, give me a quote for house insurance” or “I have 2015 tesla s and 2020 audi etron in 22040, two drivers with pristine driving record, need quote for car insurance…”

This is more like $1bn/year idea though…

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In the US that would be https://www.homeadvisor.com/ or https://www.instapro.com/ It requires huge marketplace effects (growing both the bidders and consumers).

The other tasks, getting quotes and prefiltering, could be done by a virtual assistant if it's frequent enough.

both are very aggressive and spamy but that’s the general idea. companies spend millions and millions on marketing to acquire new customers and yet there is an untapped market (that is EVERYWHERE around) where customers (with money, at times lots and lots of it) are looking at where to spend it