# HomeJoy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/homejoy/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/homejoy/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.