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You can automate tasks in the house (e.g. a maid) with http://redbeacon.com (disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Redbeacon).

I also automate groceries at http://shop.safeway.com .

In San Francisco you can automate laundry with http://sfwash.com . Great service.

Finding personal services professionals sucks, but I'm unsure of how I'm supposed to use redbeacon. I load up the site (in Los Angeles), and find maids, set 1 bedroom, see it's $114 avg, see comments for deep cleaning, find the "reoccurring" checkbox, and get no results.

Automation would imply a scheduled event to me, but it looks like this is more for one-off transactions?

Yeah, I did the exact same thing. No love for LA :(

I like how when I signed up for redbeacon, it gave me incremental input fields.

When I signed up for Safeway, I hit an input wall, of the same size, that almost made me close the tab.

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