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Local Home-Repair Marketplace Inside Meta's Apps: Connecting Homeowners With Handymen

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A Meta product design question about creating a product inside Meta's apps that helps people find and hire a handyman for home repairs and small jobs. It tests segmentation on both sides of a local services marketplace, trust and safety thinking, use of Meta's social and messaging strengths, prioritization, and success metrics.

You are a product manager at Meta. Design a product, built on Meta's apps, that helps people find a handyman for repairs and small jobs around the home. Explain who it is for, what it does, and how you would measure whether it works.

Clarifying Questions

  • Should this live inside an existing surface such as Facebook Marketplace, Groups or WhatsApp, or be a new standalone app under the Meta brand?
  • Which jobs count: small repairs, assembly and odd jobs only, or also licensed trades such as electrical and plumbing work that may need permits?
  • Is success measured by engagement in Meta's apps, by revenue from handyman businesses through ads or fees, or by becoming the default place people go to hire local help?
  • Which side should the first version focus on: homeowners looking for help, or handymen looking for steady work?

Hints

Hint 1

Find the step that breaks: Walk a homeowner through one real job, from noticing the problem to paying for the fix, and note where today's process fails. Then ask which of those failures Meta's existing apps and social connections could fix better than a standalone directory.

Follow-up questions

  • How would you get the first handymen onto the product in a city where none of them use it yet?
  • A homeowner reports that a handyman found through the product damaged their property. What should the product do, and which policies should Meta set before launch?
  • Would you take a fee on each job, or earn only from ads that handyman businesses buy? What would you test first?