I was not aware that foreign maids were legal in Taiwan. I have only ever seen foreign caretakers who aren’t allowed to work for you unless you have an elderly person in your home.
In any case, even if foreign maids were allowed, they are not allowed to provide freelance cleaning service. You must hire them on a long-term contractual basis through an approved agency, which makes this business idea a bad one regardless.
Meant to include this link before from the WDA mentioning “housemaids”, but forgot.
https://dhsc.wda.gov.tw/en/Media/Notice
Yes, I know it’s not legal. Nonetheless, it’s not exactly rare either.
Building apps to allow cleaning companies to come over on demand, that can be a thing. You will have to handle the backend stuff however, as well as offering incentives for cleaning companies to get in on this deal.
Whether or not people will want to hire cleaning services on demand is something else.
Taiwanese can certainly freelance as cleaning service, whether it will be worth the money is another thing altogether.
Cleaning companies do exist because not all hotels/retail establishment can afford to hire their own janitorial staff.
What do you mean this is “something else”? The is key.
If nobody can afford maids (and most people can’t), then nobody will use your app. If nobody uses your app, then your business will fail.
The whole point is to bypass cleaning companies, just as Uber enabled passengers to bypass taxi firms.
Hotels are close to irrelevant in this business model.
From my experience I think it’s roughly 25% Taiwanese (ethnically) respondents
No one can see the content of the group unless they’re in it, so it would be more helpful to post a screen shot.
I said cleaning companies because they have the means to offer cleaning services and can do it at competitive prices. A freelancer maid won’t be able to.
Why do you think an app that enables people to get in touch with cleaning companies would be any different to what’s currently available online?
Tuber
Bluter
Uberlue
Bucker
Is that an Uber for blue truck drivers to get around when they don’t fancy driving?
Jeeez… How many kg per maid are we talking about if you need a mover? Can said maid even do maid-like work, or is reduced to mere decoration? So many questions.
A cleaning company would also have to means to put out ads so people can contact them directly and skip the middleman, making such an app useless.
But mom is almost home I fear. I need an Uber maid, who is near? I’ll check the app, they’ll clean this crap. Oh there is one a block away. I’ll pay them well, they’ll save the day.
Hail A Scooter
…just realised there’s no equivalent to Gojek or Grab to get a ride here
So like a scooter taxi?
I don’t think very many people would like to hold onto Mr. Betelnut for dear life while he zips them around the city.
Most people here can ride scooters so something like WeMo makes more sense, as you don’t need to cover a driver’s salary.
ofc there is uber for maids:
I don’t want to share a screenshot. I assume it’s a private group for a reason. I just wanted to help Bree find the group to join.
Based on posts in another thread, perhaps we could add:
Breakfast Shop Boss
Guy