Thumbtack
1 creator use or recommend it
Online marketplace that connects customers with local service professionals.
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How Thumbtack compares
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Uber
Different focus
ride-sharing platform
Both are online marketplaces. Thumbtack connects people with local services like handymen; Uber connects people with rides.
2 creators
2 creators
Both are online marketplaces. Thumbtack connects people with local services like handymen; Uber connects people with rides.
"Creating things like Thumbtack, which was like services to find a handyman and things like that."
Mentioned alongside Uber, Instagram, and TikTok
"If you're a marketplace and they did Uber or Thumbtack like I did or they're doing fintech like I did Wealthfront and Robin Hood."
Example of marketplace investment alongside Uber
What creators say
"I like going to thumbtack.com — they have all these different categories of things, and under each category is just a million businesses that you could look through and start Googling. I personally really like home improvement, so I'll just start ..."
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"Creating things like Thumbtack, which was like services to find a handyman and things like that."
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"Thumbtack, big company, they already validated that people will pay for customer leads. So your service would have to deliver requests those provid..."
"He has a profile on Google LSA, Thumbtack, Home Advisor, Angie's List, TaskRabbit. They feed him all his leads."
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"If you're a marketplace and they did Uber or Thumbtack like I did or they're doing fintech like I did Wealthfront and Robin Hood."
More from This Week in Startups →"I was seeing with some of our clients, you know, just responding could cost him two, three, 400 bucks. Just responding to one Thumbtack lead, let's say. And so that $400 to talk to someone who's talking to four to five, maybe 10 other people shopp..."
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