• Alternative advertisement channel for Neighbourhood Shops & Services

    Often we see advertisement slips attached to newspapers which are source of annoyance to readers. However these are only source of advertisement for local shops like general stores, salon, clothing stores whose customers are limited to 5 km radius. Fb, google, twitter doesn’t seems to be of much use...

  • Longer waiting time to order food & drinks

    During peak hours visits to pubs, bars and restaurants it takes significant amount of time (~5-10 minutes) to get menu and finally place orders. During peak hours workload on attendants goes up.

  • Recycling Plastic Waste (or) Upcycling it

    Plastic waste problem is not new and India is recycling, yet lot of it lands up in landfills and burnt. We being developing economy, we are producing more and more new plastic at a very high rate and also unknown quantity of foreign plastic is being dumped here as...

  • The world is about to get 700mn more Air Conditioners

    There is a report in the Washington post about what is happening globally. With rising income levels in emerging markets, there seems to be a strong correlation to getting air conditioners in homes. China which saw the largest growth in the last decade has more than 100% air conditioners...

  • Location Based Alarm System

    Many trains run overnight and there are destinations which arrive well into the night. And added to the problem is the amount of delay that the train runs into. The passenger has to either stay awake all night hoping the train reaches on time, or just keep an approximate...

  • Product Image Repository for e-Commerce channels

    Most of the FMCG Goods are available in e-commerce sites like Flipkart, Amazon and also on their own portals. Eg: Kurkure. The pack shot, the ingredients, the nutritional info, the marketing text, etc have to be available on all the sites. The e-commerce / marketing team of Brand Owners...

  • Adulteration in / Fake edible products

    There are many edible products consumed by the user on a daily basis, ranging from bottled water, milk and many more. Alarmingly, these products are sometimes adulterated with low cost substitutes or a fake product is manufactured and sold in the market. The consumer buys it without the knowledge...

  • Specialised Skill-Demand Gap is getting wider

    Most large companies today hire talent on a need-to basis. Certain talent with specialized skillsets are in high demand and can be very difficult to find. This is the key pain point (and needs to be validated) On the other hand, a good percentage of the specialized workforce who...

  • Going from Prototype to DFM in building Hardware Products

    There are a ton of hardware ideas coming up these days. Even though SDKs have been around for a while, thanks to standardization of those - in the form of Raspberry PIs, Arduino etc is leading to a whole slew of people building various prototypes of new ideas. It’s...

  • Long Queues at billing counters in shops

    When there is a sale or promotion announced by grocery shops or apparel stores we get stuck in long queues. Some people even drop the idea of shopping. They either try to find the right time to go and shop or if they are already in the queue they...

  • Sourcing Unorganised labours is a tough task

    Sourcing of drivers , home servants, cooks , carpenters , plumbers temporarily or permanently is very tough. We don’t have a proper curated portal like naukri or monster for such unorganised labours. Even having maintaining such labours is very tough , as people don’t know to read or write...

  • Finding Parking in cities

    All the cities in India face severe parking problems. Finding Parking place in cities has become a major issue.A lot number of people waste almost 10% to 15% of the fuel for just Finding parking place.The main problem is ambiguity in price i.e Parking charges vary from area to...

  • Help Millennials Finding Their Passion

    Every successful person claims that he/she followed their passion. With 356 million people between the age of 10-24 years, India has the world’s largest youth population. But, most of our millennials are clueless about what’s their passion is? While the reasons for this are many, there is an opportunity...

  • Revenue generation from non-rented properties

    In urban cities, there are abundance of apartments which are either bought for investments or for later use. Those properties either do not fetch appropriate rent or do not get any takers at all for rent. They end up being unused for a long time. Is there a good...

  • Billing for Daily Door to Door Services

    In metros and urban many families subscribe to daily door to door services like newspaper delivery, milk delivery, home tutor, Laundry. Often at the end of month there are billing disputes causing stress and strained relationships with vendors. In many occasions either side end up losing money, however small...

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