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.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyHome ServicesMarketplaceOn-DemandGig EconomyCleaning ServicesDefunctY Combinator

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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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.'
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x-defunct-date: '2015-07-31'
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tags:
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- Home Services
- Marketplace
- On-Demand
- Gig Economy
- Cleaning Services
- Defunct
- Y Combinator
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence