Thumbtack is one http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/service-marketplace-thumbta...

Task Rabbit is pretty good and well known, and now there's Magic which sits on top of it. There's a lot more but they're smaller.

To me, Magic seems like a ChaCha that takes your credit card number and makes a few calls. That's fine, but it seems that places like Task Rabbit and Amazon Home are attempting to guarantee some level of satisfaction and results.

I've seen a couple other startups like Magic too. It's basically paying people to google for you. That might disrupt the personal assistant space but probably not the market for home services.

I always thought TaskRabbit was for unskilled jobs. More assembling IKEA desks than plumbing and electrics.

There is are many including http://www.pro.com, http://www.redbeacon.com, http://www.homeadvisor.com/. Apparently the first one is backed by Bezos Expeditions! http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-24/pro-dot-com-...

Recently launched Super Fast Yellow Pages: http://www.superfastyellowpages.com/

Seems like Taskrabbit sort of fills this space at the moment, unaware of other startups in the space though

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9265817