I’m David, I’ve been working on a couple of startups over the last couple of years, most recently YourJobDone.com in London, which was a mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for getting jobs done. Technically speaking it was an SMS targeting and auctioning platform developed in ASP.NET We got up to 10,000 users, 300 active.
I want to have a good crack at the same market in Australia, using a much more socially integrated approach, and one which doesn’t cost $4 every time we auction off a job! The technology has changed substantially since I started on YourJobDone (smart phone adoption up, SMS costs up, HTML5 maturation, expansion of FB social graph etc) and I have to return to Australia for a few reasons. I’m currently experimenting with paths to market in Sydney, and it looks plausible in a few markets. I'm looking to team up with someone who is passionate about both Collaborative Consumption (or social mobile peer-to-peer marketplaces) and software engineering- a strong generalist in the mobile social web (HTML5, FB social graph, anything that can be hosted in a Heroku-style platform) Part of the opportunity here is to get a lean hack together and go for an incubator in Sydney or Melbourne (like StartMate) I've no doubt the market is hot (similar businesses in the US, Zaarly and TaskRabbit, entered later and have experienced v.fast growth + have raised USD18m and USD7m). The other aspirants to this market in Aus are early days. I know the sector well. Though an engineer by degree, I've been in bus dev and product for 3 years (both with former startup and consulting). If you’re interested, would love to have a chat, drop me a line here or otherwise, other feedback also welcome. You can get more of an idea of what I’m working on here: http://blog.JobKangaroo.com, and can see some info on previous startup YourJobDone here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7f551TbJxg Cheers, David Caldwell. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
