The uber like business models that have become a trend where you can order for goods and services at the tap of a screen seem to be popping up everywhere. In SA there’s such a service for flowers, in Kenya we have meats and alcohol being tried by Jumia, also in retail shopping there was/is a startup that does shopping and delivers to households and also the same for domestic househelps, property and also moving houses. Remember Walmart tried to fight off Amazon competition by also investing in their own in house on demand shopping that eventually failed, and what Hulu and Netflix did to DVD rentals.
What industry in Kenya would be well disrupted by such a service as Uber did to the established taxi companies and what would it take to achieve that level of disruption. Or are we getting this On demand model wrong?
Jumia is haemorrhaging money, there was this startup where you could book seats on Easy Coach et al from your phone but seems to have died, what do we need to get it right?
Car-pooling and cargo-pooling
Najua moja inaweza kuwa kali sana. The first person to implement it will reap fat dollars.
The cargo pooling is interesting, in reducing shipping costs @upepo go ahead and implement, see what comes out of it
Tesla are headed towards the car pooling industry with their autonomous driving instead of having the car sit idle the entire day when you get to the office
stop imitating for the sake of imitating
there is already Uber Freight.
Uber Freight - Uber for Truckers - Science & Technology - Kenya Talk
So what’s the next big thing in the On demand category?
PussyOnWheels
anything that is a service can be done on demand.
Affordable Escort agency.