Redbeacon was a consumer home-services marketplace that connected homeowners with local service professionals — for home repair, cleaning, landscaping, handyman and similar jobs — letting people describe a job and receive quotes from vetted local pros. The company was an early venture-backed startup (with Mayfield among its investors) and was acquired by The Home Depot in 2012. The standalone Redbeacon consumer service was subsequently wound down. As of this enrichment pass the redbeacon.com domain still resolves (Cloudflare DNS, Google Workspace email) but serves no live website (origin returns HTTP 525 / 400) and publishes no developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API surface. This profile is retained as a historical/portfolio-graph node.
Red Beacon is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Home Services, Marketplace, Local Services, and Consumer.
aid: red-beacon
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/red-beacon.png
name: Red Beacon
description: Redbeacon was a consumer home-services marketplace that connected homeowners with local service professionals
— for home repair, cleaning, landscaping, handyman and similar jobs — letting people describe a job and receive quotes from
vetted local pros. The company was an early venture-backed startup (with Mayfield among its investors) and was acquired
by The Home Depot in 2012. The standalone Redbeacon consumer service was subsequently wound down. As of this enrichment
pass the redbeacon.com domain still resolves (Cloudflare DNS, Google Workspace email) but serves no live website (origin
returns HTTP 525 / 400) and publishes no developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API surface. This profile
is retained as a historical/portfolio-graph node.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/red-beacon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- Local Services
- Consumer
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-21'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
common:
- type: ParentCompany
url: https://apis.io/providers/home-depot/
name: The Home Depot
x-relationship: acquired
x-evidence: The company was an early venture-backed startup (with Mayfield among its investors) and was acquired by The
Home Depot in 2012.
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/red-beacon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.redbeacon.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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