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Feedback: Money as a motivation for keeping an app installed?

Hi everyone, 

I am Harshil Lodhi, a final year student from IIT Guwahati. I have just joined the forum so pardon me if I break some of the spoken/unspoken rules of this community. I have been following Alok’s post for the past 2 years and his posts brought me here.

I am working on a start-up with a bunch of my friends and wanted feedback on some of the things.

Context: Indian Market

There seems to be no good platform which connects companies/startups to customers for surveys and feedback especially if the company is concerned about feedback from a certain section of users i.e. based on age or location. ( I would like to know if it exists). We faced a similar problem when we wanted a opinion from public on some of the things but couldn’t find a platform.

SwagBucks, Google Opinion rewards etc are some of the businesses that operate in the same domain but I don’t think they are having an Indian presence. 

My Questions:

1. Would you keep a simple app on your phone/tablet which pushes surveys and feedback to you. It would reward you with some nominal amount of money. ( what would be that amount for you ? ). 

2. I know these kind of money making apps go viral in their initial phase. What do you guys think of the long term sustainability of such an app. Mcent is one such apps which pays you for installing it. I don’t know how popular it is.

3. What are the tax issues for a company if we want to give out rewards to users? Initially we are planning to only give it in forms of recharge coupons and gift cards.

Twitter – harshillodhi