At the Connecting Ideas With Money session at Lounge47 that took place on the 7th of January 2022, founder Pradeep Durga pitched DoDoo, a Anantpur-based startup that is
filling the gap of rural India for daily needs, essentials, home services. DoDoo as a service provider will DO/GET/SEND/BUY anything, as a personal assistant.
website: http://dodoo.in/App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moyo.dodoo
DoDoo is currently operating in Anantapur, Tadipatri, Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh. DoDoo is exclusively designed for Tier-2 to Tier-4 towns, which helps rural India
using a marketplace platform for services. It works on a subscription model, and service charge based on order.
“Initially I have seen a gap in service providers in my place Anantapur…a tier-2 city which is 10 kilometers in radius…there is no trusted resource who can provide
all the services to the home. I have 12+ years of experience working in Bangalore away from my home town… but my parents are alone. Like me, many people leave
their hometowns for different purposes like study, job, marriage….,” says Pradeep.
“We have created a prototype before getting into the actual product, we have created a Whatsapp number and did research on this domain by advertising to a particular area only for delivery service. We questioned ourselves – are people really in need of this kind of service or can they manage it? Whatsapp as a platform got us a huge response, then we have added more and more services by creating
a Mobile Application which was launched after 8 months. Slowly we have converted Whatsapp users to Mobile apps. Still we take phone orders, whatsapp orders for older people.”
DoDoo is a self funded with revenue and would like to raise funding to scale to other tier 2 cities pan India.
