aid: homejoy
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/homejoy.png
name: HomeJoy
description: >-
  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.
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-date: '2015-07-31'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/homejoy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- On-Demand
- Gig Economy
- Cleaning Services
- Defunct
- Y Combinator
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence