Hiraj is a new startup targeted towards Indian parents. Parents can keep an online journal of their baby and collate important information about the baby’s growth. Amongst other features, parents can
- write an online journal
- upload photos – videos
- Log important milestones in their child’s growth
- Maintain a growth chart
- Send picture post cards
- Share the journal – photos and other stuff related to their baby’s growth with friends/family
Hiraj is a niche based site and it will be a challenge for them to build a community around it (as with any other niche community based site in India).
Hmm……Let me forward this to my sister
Looks useful to track lots of info and create a community.
Sounds like a good idea. I think it has a market.. Sometime back there was a lot of criticism going around about the so called “mommy bloggers”. All they wanted was to be able to have a community about their experiences. To share their experiences with kids and make friends. Maybe with something like this, they can do so without being harassed.
wonder how this works. So what will happen to the account when the child grows up?. Will they terminate the account? Why does someone wants to share his/her kids pics all over the world. I dont think there is that much target group for this. First of all with the many social networks available and some very popular ones which people would never drop off from who will think of joining yet another social network. Only among the hitech people who have enough time to maintain another account for their kid will do. Of those people again If the concept of the “Buri Nazar” is believed they would not… I really doubt the success of this application.
Good idea. some good tools to keep the baby information safe. One can share the information they want to share and with whom. nice. good luck
Hi guys..first of all thanks for your views and thoughts…the site is developed to help busy parents, Indian expats or families scattered around the world, so this way they can share their childs growth with their friends and family and can keep the track record of their childs growth and development. As the time goes very fast so this way it helps parents to track all the past memories with a click of a button. It will be quite useful for the child itself to go back and see how was their childhood like and what were they like at younger age.
In terms of the account the information will be there till the time parents want to delete the account themselves; it’s a quite different than social networking or open blogs, site allows parents to share the information only with the people who they want to and gives them control and secure way of sharing information about their kids..It also allows them to make their own mini website with information to keep track of their kids….
in the future we will be bring some of the other features i.e. printing baby albums,diaries,merchandise good etc..so there is lot to come on it..
at the present site have features like: mini blogs,other family members can contribute to it by sharing their views,option to upload pictures,videos,send postcards in the form of their kids pictures,visitors book can be filled by family and friends who visited the diary,family and friends can see the kids everyday growth which is connected to WHO standards,log everyday milestones achieved by kids,log everyday diets,vaccines and food habits,bookmarks favorite websites,kids birthday and events is connected to wikipedia etc…
we are improving the site everyday and there is loads to come in coming months…hope you all enjoy it..
Hi Sandeep,
Your idea is good…. however you need to work on the site look and appearance.
The font color choice is very bad….. the light blue on a white background is almost unreadable to me.
The News link is empty
Click on Blog and then click on Contact us at the bottom of the page… it says file not found….
You need some css changes and testing asap.
hope this helps
Thanks a lot for your feedback and i am on top of it, really appreciate your help, getting it sorted.
Other things you can add to your site which i think will be invaluable are
1) resources for new parents.
2) ceremonies details. (what , when and how to perform)
3) a discussion forum will be great for this as well…
just some thoughts
hope it helps
You can also post links about medical issues from WebMD etc
also post links of products from amazon and other sites like that and earn some money that way as well….
there is alot which can be done with this….hope i am making sense and not going tangential here.
Hi A…thanks for your thoughts and ideas, we do appreciate it your feedback and it does all make sense and do matters on the initial stages..its very helpful …thanks…again
A,
thats some great useful input you’ve provided. I hope sandeep & team make the best of all your great tips.
thanks guys…it does makes a lot of help and being honest it better…helps us to improve more before we actually start marketing and PR..cheers guys…will update you once the new tools and features been added to the site..
take care…regards…
Nice post on niches and making money. I wonder how many people out there have worked thier niches like this?
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