I’ve been a member of this wonderful community at TRH for the last 1 year and it has been a wonderful experience, meeting the founder and co-founder, met some awesome rodinhooders in Delhi meet. Now this is my 2nd Startup, first being Falphool, which has been bootstrapped so far and has been showcased earlier on TRH, running and delivering fruits, vegetables and grocery in Dwarka .
Now I’d take this opportunity to introduce my new startup Yobring.
Through Yobring.com we try to address the following:
Search and fulfill requests while you travel.
At times we want to have certain items or products and want it badly but those are not readily available may be because of geography constraints or price being hefty locally or design not available locally or because of any other factor.The end result we avoid those products…!!
Now with Yobring
You have the chance of getting it by simply uploading the requirement on Yobring, if there is anyone who is travelling notices the request, he can bring that product to you.
How it all Started ?
It was in March this year, my daughter was searching for wedges (sandles) online but she couldn’t find the design locally.The design which she really liked was available on UK’s website where the courier charges were quite high, we realized that one of one of our relatives who is visiting there was to come back after 2 months.
But this problem really gave me the Eureka moment that we could try something on these lines. I tried to google but couldn’t find anything similar in India, but in Asia there was one of the company which is trying to do something similar but they are not having their own website.
What we did and where our web app stands as of now?
As a developer I started development and completed the basics within few weeks. Through out development I was not having any reference to anything similar and that is biggest handicap, so everything I did based on my experience and gut feeling.
I’ve completed the development and will be launching the MVP and beta next week.
My Thanks
Thanking you in advance for reading this out and would love to hear the feedback from you.
Also Kindly share your experience with PAYUMONEY
I am looking for payment gateway integration, what has been your experience with payumoney(aggregator) merchant account.
~Sunil Suri
@yobringtech
asha chaudhry
hi sunil,
so i love your spirit of always trying to solve a problem!
i watched your film – very neat way of explaining with characters like yo and po!
do you intend to have a social layer (circles) in this? as in, you can request ONLY PEOPLE YOU KNOW to bring something? coz most of us will see a fundamental flaw in this if you are asking strangers to carry stuff for you from overseas – people will misuse this and ship wrong stuff.
plus if you re-call while flying you are supposed to confirm that you have packed all the luggage for yourself and you are not carrying anything for anyone else etc etc. so the safety/legal angle is still a question mark.
there are lots of posts on payment gateways – do use the search engine and you will find them…
Sunil Suri
Thanks Asha for everything.
Yes true, there will be social circle involved, and authentication mechanism is through Facebook only.
Also money paid by buyer will not be released to the seller, till the desired item has been successfully delivered.
Also the site is not restricted to overseas delivery only, you can ask for something not available locally but available in other states. So somebody travelling from Agra to Delhi can bring “Agra ke petha” etc.
Also if you are travelling from Delhi to Gurgaon, there are many items which are required daily in Gurgaon, so people travelling can pick up and deliver.
I hope I’ve been able to answer your queries.
~Regards
Zeeshan Chawdhary
Hi Sunil
I have used PayUmoney and InstaMojo , both work well. I thinki PayUMoney has a lot of integration available, so based on your platform you can choose accordingly.
Sridhar Rajendran
Hi Sunil,
Quite an tough problem you are trying to solve, kudos for trying. Here are some of my observations besides those raised by Asha:
1. I tried to use the website with logging in and got an error (screenshot attached) when I clicked on Search. I could not find any options to login or post requirements/itinerary.
2. From my understanding, the traveller will have to foot the bill and get the item. And once buyer acknowledges, he will get the money back. This seems like a major flaw. Why should he bother about spending money in advance and hope to get the money back. The product could get lost/damaged during transit. In such scenarios how to detect if is genuine or fraudulent? Who foots the bill?
3. Why would any ‘Facebook friend’ take an interest to go to a particular shop and buy an item? How is he rewarded for his time, effort and money?
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
How can this scale between REAL strangers?
The typical safety questions – How do I know that the Rakhi box you’ve given me to carry does not carry drugs?
I’ve asked this question to many P2P ‘Courier’ startups and no one has answered me!
Japheth Paramanandam
Could vet the person using credit score, social media etc? Other option is having the person pack the stuff in view of the person who is carrying it, if someone is not sure. Most of the stuff is hand carry so if I am going to carry something for someone, why would I not want to see whats in it? I am the one taking that risk?
Japheth Paramanandam
Think its a cool idea… You could make it also an bidding type service, what am I willing to pay to get xyz product from xyz place? Its a supply and demand question at the end. It has to make sense for someone to take the time and effort to either buy the stuff from the store, etc carry it and stuff. I agree with one of the posters comments about who is going to pay for the services etc. Credit card charge seems to be the best option and is it a one time thing and a multi time thing. Have not signed into your site but g uessing you have a review system for the users. Uber and Lyft seems to have solved this problem to a certain degree here in the US for the honesty factor but not sure how that works in India.
Japheth Paramanandam
Also UberX would be a fair option to check out as someone who is doing that in the US marketplace. There are also other players in the spacepostmates.com, and a couple of others that focus on the grocery sector. Also, fiverr.com and taskrabbit.com operate on a similar model where people can post tasks that also includes picking up stuff, not sure about the buying part though…In India where labor is the cheapest resource, why not use existing courier companies and delivery services to do the same where you just act as the intermediary and tie it in with existing guys in the local space that are already doing that.So in effect, you are acting as the “online broker” if you will…