QuadJobs

TaskRabbit for verified college students

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TaskRabbit for verified college students

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Riddle

Great idea. I actually love the fact that it is limited to college students. I often wanted to hire college students and it was really hard to connect with them on other job boards. Most often I succeeded by pinning help wanted posters at universities. Will definitely want to use quadjobs

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11yr ago

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Maker

Thanks Steve! when a student applies for your job, you see the jobs they've worked in your community and reviews/ ratings from neighbors who've hired them in past.

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11yr ago

Give Water to Flint

I love this. We built something similar when I was in college and took it through a tech accelerator, but the two sided marketplace proved too difficult to scale at the time. We were also around in the time that Zaarly had gone through their funding trying something similar and TR had just laid people off from HQ, so funding was scarce for a two-sided marketplace. I'm glad to see someone else giving it a try!

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11yr ago

QuadJobs

Maker

@_rsamuelson Thanks so much Rebecca. great minds! we see QJ as a supply-driven market so we focus first on nailing down an awesome pool of students before we launch to employers in a market. then employers have a good hiring experience and plenty of applicants first time they post.

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11yr ago

I'm not sure I see the value in limiting the task-runners to students. For the client, it seems to artificially-limit the size of the labor pool. For the student, its simply another one of many on-demand services that are already competing for their labor. The market for cheap college labor is already saturated by services like these. Most of the suggested tasks on the website are also things that anyone could do. Dog walking, babysitting, housekeeping, moving furniture, tech support. These are services that any worker can do and any client can already access on existing services like Task Rabbit. I just don't see how this service is differentiated from the torrent of other task services out there.

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11yr ago