An agent built the tooling that routes his rental jobs to contractors

Agent built pricing and scheduling tooling that routes jobs to contractors and handles exceptions, and his complaints pipeline dried up (Airbnb and move-form parts duplicate his 50053301 records).

How it works

The agent builds pricing and scheduling tooling
Jobs get routed to contractors
Exceptions are handled by the tooling
His complaints pipeline dries up

Why it’s worth knowing

The win he reports is silence: the complaints stopped.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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