You need a mover, or you need someone to fix that dent in your car, but you don’t know who to book, nor do you want to deal with the hassle of calling people up, find the prices, and then see if they have a opening for a time that’s convenient for you. That’s so 90s (or even 00s). Now you have Redbeacon. Coming of as the winner at TechCrunch 50 2009, Redbeacon sets out to do for every other service what OpenTable has done for restaurant reservations, Redbeacon allows you to put up requests for services (similar to Craigslist), and Redbeacon notifies qualified and reviewed vendors of the request. They then quote their price, which is emailed to you in a summary of all vendors in about 4 hours, at which point you can select the vendor and schedule the job all online. No phone calls. Less hassle. And hopefully a simpler way to getting things done.
