This is a problem that we are facing with Ideaspace right now and thought perhaps its time to test the power of this platform. One of the issues with communities - whether it is a community like this, or even a facebook group is that over time (unless it...
When there is a sale or promotion announced by grocery shops or apparel stores we get stuck in long queues. Some people even drop the idea of shopping. They either try to find the right time to go and shop or if they are already in the queue they...
Sourcing of drivers , home servants, cooks , carpenters , plumbers temporarily or permanently is very tough. We don’t have a proper curated portal like naukri or monster for such unorganised labours. Even having maintaining such labours is very tough , as people don’t know to read or write...
All the cities in India face severe parking problems. Finding Parking place in cities has become a major issue.A lot number of people waste almost 10% to 15% of the fuel for just Finding parking place.The main problem is ambiguity in price i.e Parking charges vary from area to...
Every successful person claims that he/she followed their passion. With 356 million people between the age of 10-24 years, India has the world’s largest youth population. But, most of our millennials are clueless about what’s their passion is? While the reasons for this are many, there is an opportunity...
Smartphones are making their way into everyone’s life, be it a President of a country or a daily wage worker. A truly democratic device that is becoming more and more affordable. If you even travel to any remote villages, where there is no internet connectivity, you would find people...
In urban cities, there are abundance of apartments which are either bought for investments or for later use. Those properties either do not fetch appropriate rent or do not get any takers at all for rent. They end up being unused for a long time. Is there a good...
In metros and urban many families subscribe to daily door to door services like newspaper delivery, milk delivery, home tutor, Laundry. Often at the end of month there are billing disputes causing stress and strained relationships with vendors. In many occasions either side end up losing money, however small...
When I need to dump unwanted household stuff or move out temporarily or remodel the current house or relocate to another city for 6 months and be back, there is not much option to dump all the household items somewhere. In the US, public storage spaces are very common....
Many children hate mathematics. Most of them can’t solve maths problems.Parents and teachers also find it tough to teach math concepts and ideas. It is among the hardest subjects that children could have in school. According to ASER 2014 – Ability of students in 3rd & 5th standard, doing...
There is a lot of aligned sentiments towards this problem. Thanks to our inheritance system, most farmers have managed to divide and sub-divide their lands to their kids and that in return has left us with a very unique situation where a lot of farmers today have lands where...
Finance and investing literature is full of jargon. To make matters worse, financial products are complicated and regulations keep changing all the time. Mutual funds were invented so the common investor could participate in equity markets. But now mutual funds are getting hard to keep up with, along with...
Chinese hardware OEMs are some of the most innovative companies out there. They find ways to reduce cost and implement functionality that rivals the giants. Although they don’t get involved in R&D so much, their knockoff products are almost just as good as the original ones. But their biggest...
Phones, fridges, microwave ovens or laptops break. People often don’t know where to go and who to trust. There is no price transparency and endless follow ups are required to make anything happen.
With the Chennai rains fresh on our minds, it seems that our ability to react and come back in cases of disasters and at-times cases like the Paris attacks, is a fundamental part of society, yet is rather weak. All communication is dependent on mobile networks now which was...