Are you vexed with the electrician who never turns up on time? Or bothered every time water taps leak in the kitchen? Home and delivery services are just a call away or by a click on your mouse.

A team of Guntur-based techies has recently started a home and delivery-based services—Simply Knock—that offers home services ranging from electrical to painting and also cleaning of water tanks, bathrooms and septic tanks.

Joel Manoj, who left his job at TCS, Durga Prasad and Naveen, who have graduated from RVR & JC College of Engineering, have come up with a startup that could provide solutions to every day problems on the home front.

“We decided to launch this start up after seeing this kind of services in metro cities. Home services, we feel, should be organised. We have plumbers, carpenters, electricians on our rolls. All that customer needs to do is call us, we will forward the address details to the skilled workers who will in turn provide the service. The customer pays directly to the skilled workers and all transactions are billed,’’ Joel Manoj told The Hindu on Monday.

Security concerns

The team has designed the web site— www.simplyknock.com— on their own and set up an office in Brundavan Gardens. Customers can call on 9395-123-123 to avail a range of services including bill payments, ticket booking and repair of all household appliances. Over 250 families have already availed of the services, including senior citizens, working professionals and public enterprises.

Soon, they want to launch delivery services, including food, meat, medicine, groceries and cakes.

The young team however, is wary of issues over security. “We do a thorough background check of the workers, including their addresses. In case of any deficiency in service, we can sack them,’’ said Mr. Naveen.

The startup offers a wide range of home and delivery-based service

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by P. Samuel Jonathan / Guntur – April 12th, 2016