Formerly known as ServiceMagic, HomeAdvisor is an online marketplace for connecting homeowners with home repair, maintenance, and improvement professionals. Professionals registered on the network are required to pass a background check that screens for issues including criminal records, bankruptcy issues, bad reviews, sex offenses, and cases of malpractice. Homeowners can access the site’s features for free. Based in Golden, Colorado, the company was a finalist for the Colorado Technology Company of the Year award in 2014.
Alternatives to Homeadvisor
Taskrabbit
Company: TaskRabbit, Inc. | Founder: Leah Busque, Kevin Busque | CEO: Ania Smith | Since: 2008
TaskRabbit is a platform where you hire someone nearby for small jobs: assembling furniture, moving, mounting a TV, cleaning or helping with errands. It was founded in 2008 by Leah Busque and was acquired by IKEA in 2017. How TaskRabbit…
Thumbtack
Company: Thumbtack, Inc. | Founder: Marco Zappacosta, Sander Daniels, Jonathan Swanson, Jeremy Tunnell | CEO: Marco Zappacosta | Since: 2009
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that allows its users to hire workers for getting specific tasks done. Thumbtack workers can help users in tasks such as house remodeling, event planning or learning a new language. The company was launched in…
Angie’s List
Company: Angie’s List, Inc. | Founder: Angie Hicks, William S. Oesterle | CEO: Scott A. Durchslag | Since: 1995
Angie’s List is an online directory that provides consumer reviews of local services in the US and parts of Canada. Members of Angie’s list can review companies and give a grade from A to F based on the criteria of…
Mechanical Turk
Company: Amazon.com, Inc. | Since: 2005
Touting its service as “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowd-sourcing service that connects developers and businesses with human workers to do small tasks that can’t be feasibly done by computers. Requestors submit Human Intelligence Tasks or HITs…
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