The routing change protects peak capacity while breaking the moment homeowners compare pros.
Restoring the old path reduces immediate uncertainty, while keeping it risks the capacity pressure that prompted the change.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I picked tonight because the leak is getting worse, and then the pro list just disappeared.”
Fatima Esfahani · Homeowner
She is trying to hire a professional for a leaking water heater after work.
What is at stake
Project-detail and pro-comparison requests must hold 99.9% success for the next 24 hours. You must weigh a reversible-looking rollback against the capacity failure it could revive.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- homeowner comparison continuity vs capacity headroom
- fast rollback vs verified recovery
- live traffic restoration vs security boundary control
- platform stability vs product demand
Why Thumbtack
The homeowner app depends on fast, dependable pro comparison when urgent repair demand is highest.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.