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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 (#3819727)
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…?

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Re:An Airbnb for Dogs Gets $3.4 Million in Funding by biot on Monday April 09, 2012 @08:49PM (#3820106)
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.
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