Re:An Airbnb for Dogs Gets $3.4 Million in Funding
by biot on Monday April 09, 2012 @04:23PM
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Next up: Baby.com. When you go on vacation and don't want to take your infant child, just check out a few profiles, pick one, and drop your baby off at the stranger's house. All members are community vetted to ensure quality care. Was your experience less than satisfactory? Simply "thumbs down" the user's profile and write a review to let other members know.
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Re:An Airbnb for Dogs Gets $3.4 Million in Funding
by mechanical_fish on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:58PM
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Do you come from a society where people don't use day care?
This sounds like a potentially great idea for a Facebook app, actually: Install the app, and it searches your social network for local friends-of-friends who have advertised baby-sitting services and have been hired at least once by one of your friends. Then the app helps you to direct-message the sitter, as well as some of the sitter's customers that it knows about.
Surely something like this already exists…?
Re:An Airbnb for Dogs Gets $3.4 Million in Funding
by biot on Monday April 09, 2012 @08:49PM
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There's a huge difference between someone operating a daycare and "Airbnb for Babies". What you propose could be fairly decent and avoids the "handing your baby over to a stranger" problem, which is something that "Airbnb for Dogs" would need to overcome as well.
Re:An Airbnb for Dogs Gets $3.4 Million in Funding
by jaredsohn on Monday April 09, 2012 @04:35PM
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My first thought in seeing this post was to make a site for finding babysitters but a quick search at google shows that many such sites already exist (although maybe there is a way to do it better.)