On: How We Found All of Optimizely's Clients

[prawn]

I always wondered if someone could do this for households. Provide a way for people to find everyone with lawn needing mowing, or with a picket fence that would need regular painting, or with a tile roof, or a hedge to trim, or driveway needing repair.

[drsim → prawn]

When I was 13 I simply went around all of the houses in the area with overgrown gardens and popped a note through their door offering grass cutting.

Not a wealthy area at all, conversion rate well over 50%

[prawn → drsim]

Nice! "Do things that don't scale" applied by a teenager!