Doordash for laundry.

skeeter2020 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Washio was an American on-demand laundry cleaning and delivery service. The company was founded in 2013 by Jordan Metzner, Bob Wall, and Juan Dulanto, and raised $17 million in funding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washio_(company)

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hackingonempty 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You jest but I searched "Uber for laundry" and found services partnering with both Uber and Doordash for transportation.

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SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Laundries have offered pickup and delivery since ... forever? It's like pizza. The markets are very local, and the growth opportunity is limited.

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nyeah 3 days ago | parent [-]

Taxis have offered pickup and delivery service since forever, and yet here we are.

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SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent [-]

OK, again, the context is a "laundromat" business. Laundry as a service with an app to schedule pickup and delivery? OK, people have tried that. Not that exciting, not that scalable. You still need a lot of facilites, machines, and humans to make that work. It's not something that exists as a virtual product that can be scaled up with an AI.

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nyeah 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Ok, again. Taxicabs are not exciting, not scaleable, and involve a lot of machines and humans to make them work.

How many iterations do you have in mind for this?

EDIT: My answer for "can a rapidly growing start-up successfully take on taxicabs?" is "yes."

	▲	SoftTalker 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Will AI take over the taxicab business, somehow eliminating the need for cars and drivers?

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