In today’s world of technology and digital era, people look for ease and convenience when they look for any work. With the help of modern mobile applications, tasks like booking a taxi, ordering food, shopping, and booking flights and hotels have become just a matter of few taps and clicks on your mobile. Due to the quality of being convenient and practical, people look up to these services. Start-ups that come up with these ideas not only provide easy services to the people but also promote the local vendors and small-scale industries and provide a platform for consumers and local vendors to connect. For example, applications like Uber or FreeNow do not own any cars but give independent car owners to connect to consumers and ear their livelihood similarly, food ordering apps do not own any restaurants but connect local shops to people who just want to have food at home. Even the customer/consumer gets the chance to explore the offerings from local shops and vendors based upon the location and budget.
There has been a success in bridging the gap between few local vendors only, and not all and even if they exist there is no platform where other small yet crucial services are provided to the customers to get quotations from various local vendors in the geography. There is a gap between the people in finding the right service provider and the way people that are connected to them. The main idea and the motive now is to solve this bigger picture or puzzle of organizing the market place and converting the concept of Yellow Pages to the online platform creating ease and convenience for the customers. The main objective of the idea is to provide consumers with most suited professionals for their day to day needs and services with the help of the matchmaking algorithm. For example, to search for a plumber or a painter or an electrician, people either seek yellow pages or asks friends and neighbors. If the idea comes into the market, it will help consumers to find professionals that are in their geography closer to them which serves their requirements and provides them the options to choose just with the help of an algorithm with minimum human interaction benefitting both consumers and the service provider.
The solution is an end to customers daily problems. For example, nowadays, in a busy life, due to hectic and tight schedules, imagine going to the salon in long traffic wasting precious time and energy. Can anything be more convenient for the customer? Yes, beautician or a plumber or even an electrician can be at your doorstep whenever required. There will be a direct connection between the users and professionals listed with the help of the model that will allow users to effectively book services in real-time. All they need to do is choose the service and schedule them at their sweet time. Services like selecting Packers and movers when you need to shift or move to a new place, Carpenter to do small house-hold repairs, Electronic item repair, Pest control, Bathroom deep cleaning, Kitchen deep cleaning, Full house deep cleaning, Plumber, Keymaker, and Car cleaning to avoid standing in queues. There is also the scope to provide Wellness services like Yoga Trainer or Fitness Trainer at home anytime according to users’ convenience, and Saloon and Grooming services for both men and women. Classes for Music and Dance can also be provided.
As far as the competitors are concerned in Ireland, there are few which provide household services to elderly users and to people with a medical condition mostly after hospital discharge which are less like services and more of assistance, few of them are Right at Home, myhomecare.ie and Home Support Services. In the above cases, they do not have the algorithms to find the best suitable service providers in a particular location.
