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Neil Parak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
241 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So I am the creator of the brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I started this in 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I was working in tech venture capital for a few years before doing this kind of as a side hustle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So now I am running two corporate locations for this and we have two franchises as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So we just started the franchise operations a few months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Cleaning services for vacation rental.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So there is kind of a gap in the market where a lot of short-term rentals have popped up, Airbnb's, VRBO's, things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And they need a proper cleaning service, which could use a lot of tech, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Typically, a lot of cleaners are not very tech savvy, but these vacation rentals have quick turnovers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

They need someone to be able to sync with their calendars, to automatically see when guests are checking out, to be able to report low supplies, damages, things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So we kind of help be the middleman between usually the low tech cleaners as well as the hosts, kind of automate the entire process for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

There's a marketplace model here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

So it is what I'd call like a local marketplace model, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Because we are a localized business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And this one part I want to clarify with vacation rentals, Airbnb, any local model reviews are so king, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

You can't just do like a...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

The biggest competitor is called Handy, which is like an Uber-type service for cleaning.

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