Ask HN: AirBnB for spouses - viable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488026

by bwkake • 14 years ago

5 11 14 years ago

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Say I need my house cleaning supervised but my wife is away, why can't I rent a well reviewed wife on an SpouseBnB type of site?

Do you think this will work?

If I start this off as a weekend project, what legal aspects do I need to worry about?

mooism2• 14 years ago

"AirBnB for spouses" sounds like wife-swapping at best, prostitution at worst.

benologist• 14 years ago

You'd need to worry about the bit where 80% of your customers will be looking for hookers, and the other 20% of your customers will be hookers.

That said, a hooker-slash-cleaning service....

gadders• 14 years ago

You get hookers to clean your slash?

NB: This joke makes more sense for Brits.

jpau• 14 years ago

I think such a thing would require a large adoption to work, but the use cases are too bizarre and already have work arounds. For your example, why not a friend, family member, or neighbour?

highlander• 14 years ago

Back up a level...do you really want to pay someone to watch the other person you paid to clean the house? Why not just hire a reliable cleaner that can work without supervision?

helen842000• 14 years ago

"Say I need my house cleaning supervised"... really? You run into this problem a lot?

Then again, does it work both ways? Say I need the couch sitting on... :)

systemtrigger• 14 years ago

I think you should sort out the nomenclature before you write the business plan. Renting a wife implies sex not house cleaning.

codegeek• 14 years ago

"rent a well reviewed wife "

Now that phrase could have 100 meanings. You probably don't want to use that as a tagline for sure.

krisneuharth• 14 years ago

I think Vooza already tried this.

gregorym• 14 years ago

Can't you clean yourself?

DanielCole• 14 years ago

I think the challenge I see is "wife" when really you're talking about general services. TaskRabbit already address the service sector and you can hire someone to perform a number of tasks to help you manage your life.

On the upside, prostitution is a huge industry which equates to a large total addressable market.

Ask HN: AirBnB for spouses - viable?

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