[infinitone]

Uber for X services thrive on high retention something which is low for hair cuts. How often do people get them? Also, hair styling can be subjective making it hard to quantitatively define quality- which makes it hard to scale.

[dragonwriter]

> Uber for X services thrive on high retention something which is low for hair cuts.

I think, more specifically, they thrive on high repetition rate, high platform retention, and high commoditization (or, equivalently, low provider retention.)

Hair cutting/styling, AFAICT, has fairly low repetition rate for most users, and low commoditization / high provider retention (and that's even more true among the segment of the population which does have a high repetition rate), and so the utility of the market platform seems pretty low for most users and providers.

[bluedino]

>> How often do people get them?

Many people get them every 2-3 months but there's a large amount of the population that go to the barber shop every week.

[protomyth]

"high retention something which is low for hair cuts"

Maybe for a certain set of guys, but not in general. [edit: people find who they like and stick with them - high retention and reputation gets very important]

[jusben1369]

There might be a lot of reasons to turn down a hair cutting app. TAM though wouldn't be one of them I don't think.

[s73v3r]

I know I don't get haircuts anywhere near as often as I should.