Are you a Task Rabbit? Have you hired one?

dailyheights

From the "why didn't I think of this" dept.:

http://www.taskrabbit.com/

MOD

Seriously! Great idea. Makes me wonder how rich the guy that created Craigslist is right now?

DH, if you ever come up with a great money making idea, I'll be happy to get on board :money:

dailyheights

I think in "the future," all tasks will be disintermediated this way - you will find someone to do them based on a task marketplace like TaskRabbit. At least I'd like to think so.

whynot_31

I am worried about who will pay us to post inane messages in your brave new world.

dailyheights

Well, if you're posting from work, then technically your boss is paying for it now. So I wouldn't expect that to change. Nothing to disintermediate here, move along...

MOD

I believe DH just used a 6 syllable word in a message board forum. [-X [-(

whynot_31

He might be trying to impress the Capt.

senatorbradford

The taskrabbit folks have raised close to $7mm.

TaskRabbit Crunchbase profile

there's a somewhat similar service (more commerce-focused) called zaarly that's raised some $1mm.

Zaarly Crunchbase profile

tjaded

There's also Agent Anything, quite similar.

senatorbradford

I am the secret agent