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By Mahesh Gidwani on 23 Comments / 5954 views

Greetings from drivekool !!

Excited to share story of drivekool.com that we launched in about mid 2014. 

What is drivekool.com ?

DriveKool.com is India’s first driving school booking site. Drivekool is a cloud based solution for customers who want to learn driving and avail RTO services.

We returned from US in 2009 and my wife still doesn’t know driving as it always have been very difficult for me to venture out and search for decent school near by. My wife tried calling but those efforts went in vain. Either the language became barrier or they were rude (or not so professional). It made us to realize that if we are finding it this difficult then it got to be difficult for many others and hence idea of launching a portal struck us. All we had to do now is to give a life to this idea so that this can be helpful for others. The idea was to make this service available at customer’s door step itself. Go no-where, log on to the site, enter your area, choose slot with driving school and book it.

We now have made this hours or day long process to few click process which once can complete in real fast from anywhere any time.

The problem drivekool is trying to address?

Drivekool is trying to address following problems faced by candidates who look to learn driving:

  1. Difficult to find credible driving school
  2. Difficult to find school with best rates and quality services
  3. Going to driving school during business hours to book training slot is time consuming
  4. Have to visit/call driving schools multiple times

What does drivekool.com offer ?

Drivekool offers following services to the client:

  1. book training slot with driving school online 24×7 from anywhere
  2. book training slot by calling our call center
  3. hassle free RTO services such as license, change of address, vehicle registration and so on

We provide door to door services when it comes to collect or deliver documents and so on making it very convenient for our customers.

What is the process?

Customers can either call us or log on to drivekool.com to book driving school or raise request for RTO related services. It’s fairly a simple process; search driving school based upon area, choose slot, and book it. Our system sends SMS to customer as well as driving school with all the details.

Upon entering area, drivekool list down all the driving school nearby along with key information such as cars they offer for learning, slots to book, price and so on. One just has to choose driving school from list and book a slot with it. 

Homepage:

Four Wheeler Search Page:

Search Result Page:

Online Mock Driving Test:

About founders?

Mahesh Gidwani, brings 15+ years of IT experience working with small, mid and large Indian and MNC organization in India and US. He does whatever it takes to make things happen. He is a founder and CEO at drivekool. 

Saumitra Kayal, brings 17+ years of experience from IT sector in India and abroad. He holds technology patent and doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty to make solution neat & clean. He is a founder and CTO.

Kumar Gaurav, he started his career with an startup before jumping onto drivekool band wagon. His sole responsibility is to develop the business and maintain relationship. He always is ready to hit the road to go and meet clients. He also is a founder at drivekool.

Social Media Handles?

Twitter:@drivekool

Facebook:drivekoolindia

Google+: +drivekool

Drivekool in Media ?

TechInAsia, Deccan Herald, ET, The New Indian Express, Vijay Karnataka (a Times of India group Kannada daily), e27.co, expatideas.com (TiE content partner) besides other leading on-line journals.

Drivekool found itself in an online International media journal for the first time with it’s story getting covered by e27.co .

For more details about our media journey please follow drivekool’s media journey.

If you could please review and get back with your kind feedback then that would really be helpful for us. Look forward for your feedback/comments !!

Thanks,

Mahesh Gidwani

Founder & CEO

Note: We support safe driving and hence request all entrepreneurs to follow traffic rules, avoid honking (blowing horn). Please help spread this message and keep our roads safe and less noisy.

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  1. hi mahesh,

    i find your venture very intriguing!! the name is cool (pun intended!!)

    love the story behind the story too! 

    why don’t you share some screenshots from the site to give us all a better idea how things work once you sign up?

    when you say “credible driving school” – does that mean you don’t list all driving schools? do you list only the credible ones? what about the quality of instructor, do you do some research on this as well? basically, do you list driving schools based on certain critieria? what’s the yardstick??

    ps: which cities in india do you cater to?

  2. Very interesting. There is definitely a demand for such a service.

    Two quick observations/queries – a. what is test drive? b. The site does not render well on latest version of Chrome (Laptop with 1024*768 Resolution)

     

  3. Hi Karthik,

    Thanks for your comments. Upon your feedback/questions:

    1. Test Drive: You can log your request in if you are planning to purchase a car. We will arrange test drive for you. Hope it clarifies, if not let me know.

    2. Thanks for chrome issue, will check !!

    Best regards, 

  4. Hi Asha,

    Thanks for your note and liking it. By the way good thing is no one has to sign up in order to book a slot with driving school 🙂 . We have kept it easy and simple to ensure user can finish what he wants real fast. However I will put screenshots of solution soon. 

    Yes we take few good driving schools from each area and hence to provide services. We don’t mind dropping driving school if find the quality of services below par, consistently. 

    At this point of time our quality check doesn’t include instructors, however in future we will try and ensure the quality of instructors as well.

    We currently are providing our services in Bangalore and soon to go to other cities.

    Best regards!!

  5. Hi Asha:

    Screen shots added. 

    Thanks

  6. Hi Mahesh! Very neat idea. # I’m not sure how you vet the driving schools/instructors but I personally think that is very critical and could be a great differentiator for you (rather than just trying to aggregate schools in order to scale fast).

    #Instead of morning, afternoon etc. shouldn’t the slots be exact time(s)? and is it synced with the calendar of the schools/instructors because most of them book hours randomly.

    # You could also think of allowing users to pick a specific instructor depending on one’s preference. e.g., females would be more comfortable having a female instructor (if available).

  7. Mahesh,

    This is a pretty neat idea and especially beneficial for women for whom safety is quite important.

    My wife used to learn driving in Gurgaon from one of the local schools. While I did not accompany her during the classes, there were quite a few women who were accompanied by their husbands / fathers for security reasons (as most of the driving instructors were male)

    If you can have some women trainers, it might be a good differentiator.

    All the best.

  8. Hi Mahesh,

    Drivekool looks like a pretty interesting portal & much needed in India. It would be really cool if you have an app supporting the same.

    I had made an app for safe driving in India, to help people going for the driving test or for anyone who wants to educate themselves about the traffic rules,etc – https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/driving-quiz-india/id896418899?mt=8

    Good luck & Godspeed mate!

  9. Hi Abhik,

    Great to hear from you, as we are currently based out of Bangalore, and moreover explicitly we are finding good female trainers who can give training, and as of now few schools have female trainers as well, registered with us.

    Thanks

     

     

  10. @Jaskaran. Please share android link if its there as I personally am using Android mobile :-). I would definately like to take a look at that.

    Tanks for your kind words by the way.

  11. Hi Rish,

    Thanks for all your comments. They are quite valid. We are working on formalizing quality parameters around driving schools. 

    On time slots, we indeed started with exact time slots but driving schools are not yet at that level causing problems here and there. We then changed the way you see it currently however once driving schools are upto the speed with us we definately would like to go back to our exact time slot model. 

    Female driving instructors are super rare to find. However we as well as driving schools understands that and there are some school who are training and bringing female instructors on board. 

  12. Hi Mahesh,

    Seems very great idea and execution of the flow. Just one suggestion is that please work on UX/UI asap and also let me know if I can help you with quick fix on this.

    Thanks.

  13. Hi Hiren,

    Let me know your views on UI/UX, always happy to receive feedbacks to improve. My email id is mahesh@drivekool.com .

    Thanks!!

  14. Hey Mahesh,

    Liked the idea. But, why the service is only related to getting a new or an updated Driving license.

    I am currently staying in Bangalore and moving to Mumbai in 3 weeks. I have to get NOC for my bike. Also, I should be getting refund of the road tax that I have paid.

    One of my friend has brought his car from Orissa to Bangalore and he needs to pay the road tax for Bangalore.

    I believe there would be a lot of people in Bangalore who have brought vehicles from other states to Bangalore and many would be planning to get NOC as well to move their vehicles to other city. Why not cater to these customers and make their life easier, I would be happy to be your first customer for the service. 😀

    There are agents who does these services but they charge a lot. The actual charges are somewhere around 200-300 but the agents ask for anywhere between 1.5k-2.5k just for getting an NOC. I see huge potential here as well.

  15. Introducing itzeazy.com .Its an effort to organize a market which is pain area for all of us . Services include RTO related works, Marriage/Birth certificates , Passport/Visa assistance , PAN card .etc. Currently services are offered in Delhi NCR & Ranchi. Soon we are starting our services in Banglore and Mumbai and other cities  . For detail pls visit http://www.itzeazy.com

  16. hi himanshu,

    why don’t you feature itzeasy in our showcase! section as well? that would give you more traction.

  17. Hi Roshan, Thanks for paying attention to our services and taking time to comment. On NOC, we definately do support it. Not only this, we cater to all the RTO service we co

  18. Hi Roshan,

    Definitely we assist people who are looking for NOC, insurance or any other services related to RTO’s…We will be glad to serve you as our customer to make your life easier….

    Thanks

    Gaurav

  19. Hope you all had a great start in 2015.

    Updated the post by adding explainer video. Feel free and post your valuable feedbacks.

    Happy Pongal/Bihu/Sankranti. Have fund and Drive Safe!!

  20. dude – I JUST LOVED YOUR EXPLAINER VIDEO!

    so glad you didn’t use a v/o. this is PERFECT.

    who made it?

  21. Thanks Asha!! We got it done by a freelancer Suden Lakshmanan (suden_22@yahoo.com) . 

    He did a great job for us.

  22. hey mahesh, long time no word? how’s drivekool doing? do update us!! would love to know 🙂

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