I flip houses, and Thumbtack has been a useful way to get contractor bids. It is (was) a great service, where you posted a job and then contractors bid on that service who are interested. It was a nice change from the Angie's List and Yelp setup where you had to individually call each contractor that came up in a search to see if they were interested in the job...which could take hours and dealing with countless voicemails or waiting for callbacks.
I log on today and Thumbtack has basically turned in to Angie's List. Instead of submitting a job for vendors to bid on, now it just gives you a list of vendors in the zip code you plug in...
This must have happened in the last few days because I just got a concrete repair quote at the end of last week.
This sucks. There isn't really another service out there like Thumbtack was, and now they've basically become another useless referral site that is no better than the dozen other "here is a list of contractors...feel free to call them" sites out there.
I complained on their Facebook page, but they just deleted my post...
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