Yulop, Vakow, CommonFloor – A few startups that I wanted to write about
There are a few startups – Yulop, Vakow, CommonFloor – that I wanted to write about way back, but due to time constraints, never was able to do so.
However, considering the pace at which these startups are innovating, I thought it might be a good idea to revisit them and write a few words about them.
Yulop is a portal for the city of Bangalore. Since its humble origins, they’ve added several great features like CityFind, CityEvents, traffic reports, mobile support, geotagging and Location Based services. They have close to 150K geotagged business listings for Bangalore and a fairly large number of event listings as well. I’m impressed by the way they’ve customized Joomla and how they continue to innovate at such a rapid pace. I guess the next step would be to expand beyond Bangalore as well ?
Vakow
Vakow is a sweet, microblogging service that packs quite a punch. “SMS blogging and sharing” is how they describe themselves. Vakow started out as a place for users to share interesting SMS’es. However, more recently, they seem to be evolving into a full fledge microblogging service as well. You can send updates via SMS / web, make friends, share interesting SMS’es, send personal SMS’es and even post Twitter updates (cheaper than Twitter’s India short code) using Vakow. They have a pretty neat integration into Orkut and Facebook as well. Check them out.
CommonFloor
CommonFloor provides secure online space for apartments and apartment associations, where residents can avail easy access to locality information and make apartment administration hassle free. Residents can post online notices, make club-house booking online, stay connected with events going in and around the apartment, find neighbors sharing common interests etc. Owner’s Association using CommonFloor can send SMS alerts of useful notices and updates to all residents; discuss issues and agendas concerning maintenance and manage expenses.
The concept seems a bit untractable at first. After all, convincing apartment associations and selling the concept of online management & apartment administration, is not an easy task. But from what I hear, CommonFloor is doing a pretty good job at getting apartments on board. If they can pull it off, it’d indeed be a great feat.
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..and yulop is now on wap too… watblog had a story a couple of days back..
common floor, if succesful, would be useful to a lot of brands… a kind of one stop shop as far as apartment promos etc are concerned…
Hey Pranav,
thanks for the plug.
cheers
rg
@manuscrypts – i agree. If they can pull it off like how Redbus is doing, they’d deserve a standing ovation.
@rg – you’re welcome