TaskRabbit- the site that outsources your errands- has been praised as a model that is encouraging Americans’ out of unemployment and back into jobs.
Who better to build a TaskRabbit clone, than an inspirational teenager from Chicago? Meet 16-year-old Shahed Khan who is the CEO and founder of Viatask- a site that outsources your odd jobs just like TaskRabbit. Shahed says Viatask won’t charge either runner or client for the transaction like TaskRabbit. And unlike Zaarly which is hyper local, Viatask is more social platform. Shahed says within the first month they had over $1,000 in transactions and are signing over 100 people a day in private beta.
Shahed was in San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt and certainly made a significant impact on the technology scene here getting friendly with blogger Robert Scoble and Vice President of local at Google Marissa Mayer.
Watch our interview with him here:
Hey guys. There's actually a pretty popular website currently operating in canada only named askfortask.com. Ask for task is exactly same as taskrabbit, and it's free to use their platform. It's worth checking that website out.
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LikeOkay, wow, cool. Just had to add my own two cents, since I work for a similar, smaller, service that just launched in New York, called Swifto. Our founder is 24 (wow, now she suddenly seems so old), and is a former ultra-orthodox Jew. It's cool to hear about all the interesting founders out there.
Here's her site, btw: http://swifto.com
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