Worth a look?

Canucklehead

Hi

Came across this whilst looking through a trade magazine.It could be useful to some out there.
Have a look and see what you think.

https://www.whoocan.com

Corgi Guy.

BobProperty

Curious how they are going to make any money.
RatedTradesmen or whatever it's called charges a fee, I'm guessing most others do. The big problem with any job posted on a website is the lack of detail and the possible errors. There was a job for instance on RatedTradesmen where the customer said they wanted some 100cm tiles laying. Now is that a typo or do you need some FO sized Rubi to stand a chance of doing the work? Equally, I've seen a job described as a bathroom refit when it was in fact a repair to part of it. I'll look into it but without a mechanism for querying the specification then how can you quote accurately? Alternatively, the quotes for the job the customer gets will all be so high because the trades quoting will be covering themselves for every possibility. I'm off for a look in detail. :beer:

edited to add, I've started to look and knew this was the site that a 19 yo female had started, pity she can't spell.

BobProperty

I'm back. Software is full of holes, search doesn't filter properly, misspellings are the least of the worries. There is a facility to ask questions at least, so some clarification of queries looks possible.
It's not my "specialist subject" but the code doesn't look that great and there's no keywords in the page I looked at so not much chance of some search engines finding and rating it.

Canucklehead

Hi

Yes O.H noticed the spelling (and mine!) also a heating job listed under plumbing.
Still...
I read through the small print and they included a clause about variable charges. So it's free now but as /when /if it takes off they introduce charges.
It might work.

I do know that I wish I had come up with something like that when I was 19!!!!


C.G.

BobProperty

Canucklehead wrote:

.....I do know that I wish I had come up with something like that when I was 19!!!!......C.G.

Someone else has to be involved with it, no 19 yo has the PR contacts to get the publicity she has had. Equally, if it doesn't take off that won't be anything new, the number of people who think they've hit on a goldmine by doing something similar must run into the 100s if not 1000s. You need to drive the traffic to the site. This place works because of Martin getting it known through his work. I can point you to a DIY forum (I won't post a link, it would multiply the traffic by 1000s) where there are 6 members and according to a colleague 3 of them were spammers. I can find lots of small sites that I have signed up to, to promote my business, the results of which are zero.

RichardCancoon

BobProperty wrote:

I'm back. Software is full of holes, search doesn't filter properly, misspellings are the least of the worries. There is a facility to ask questions at least, so some clarification of queries looks possible.
It's not my "specialist subject" but the code doesn't look that great and there's no keywords in the page I looked at so not much chance of some search engines finding and rating it.

looking at the site it seems ok, ignoring the spelling. granted it could do with some refinement. AFAIK, search engines no longer “look” at Meta keywords due to keyword spamming in the past!? That would explain no keywords. The code validates to W3C with the exception of the Google tags which cause it to fail.