HomeJoy

Homejoy, Inc. was an online home-services marketplace that connected customers with vetted house cleaners and handymen through its website and mobile apps. Founded in 2010 by siblings Adora and Aaron Cheung, the Y Combinator-backed company raised roughly $40M (Google Ventures, Redpoint, First Round, Max Levchin) and expanded to more than 30 cities across the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany. Battered by high customer churn, discount-driven growth and worker-misclassification lawsuits, Homejoy ceased operations on July 31, 2015; much of its product and engineering team was acqui-hired by Google. This is an archival API Evangelist profile of a defunct company: it operates no public API, developer portal, or SDKs, and its former homejoy.com domain now redirects to an unrelated cleaning service.

HomeJoy is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Home Services, Marketplace, On-Demand, and Gig Economy.

📡 Source on GitHub

0 APIs

Company Home Services Marketplace On-Demand Gig Economy Cleaning Services Defunct Y Combinator

Source (apis.yml)

aid: homejoy
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/homejoy.png
name: HomeJoy
description: 'Homejoy, Inc. was an online home-services marketplace that connected customers with vetted house cleaners and
  handymen through its website and mobile apps. Founded in 2010 by siblings Adora and Aaron Cheung, the Y Combinator-backed
  company raised roughly $40M (Google Ventures, Redpoint, First Round, Max Levchin) and expanded to more than 30 cities across
  the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany. Battered by high customer churn, discount-driven growth and worker-misclassification
  lawsuits, Homejoy ceased operations on July 31, 2015; much of its product and engineering team was acqui-hired by Google.
  This is an archival API Evangelist profile of a defunct company: it operates no public API, developer portal, or SDKs, and
  its former homejoy.com domain now redirects to an unrelated cleaning service.'
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-date: '2015-07-31'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/homejoy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- On-Demand
- Gig Economy
- Cleaning Services
- Defunct
- Y Combinator
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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