The problem VyAppar solves

We aim to change how the world works by providing an online platform for individuals, cottage industries, micro-businesses and entrepreneurs to start any business. The app’s basic framework is an E-commerce platform, on which anyone can sell a product or service, that they made locally, to a consumer looking for them all within their own community in offline cases and a broader reach incase of an online case.This makes each neighborhood self-sufficient.These products include but are not limited to eatables, tuitions, art, vocational freelance, classes, business outsourcing etc.Through this, not only are we helping small businesses flourish, but also, creating many more and inspiring people by giving them a new and strong customer base. The concept of the app is to provide the vendor a page with two sections, one to list out their products and services with their details and the other to self advertise them via a social media feed. We will also be including an inbuilt business tool which will help the vendor calculate their finances and manage their resources better to develop their business. In addition to basic menus and pages the customers will be having a map of their local neighbourhoods where they can search and look for top and suggested vendors in their locality. The best part is that there is no sign up cost. The vendors and customers can change roles and switch their interfaces depending on their needs. We will be providing them delivery services. There will be a forum where the users of a locality can discuss things and get together too!!!

Challenges we ran into

Do you remember those fond childhood memories of eating from your school friends lunchbox and thinking ,"Wow, your mother is such a good cook I wish she could cook my lunch!" ? Well what if we said that was possible not just for food but for various things?
Our dream is an India with self-sufficient and self-sustaining local communities, thus encouraging the concept of ‘atmanirbharta’. Our motto is "Vocal for Local" where each locality is self-reliant and achieves rapid economic growth and large-scale employment. We often buy products and services made commercially or imported in some form but there are a lot of people out there with hobbies and other vocational skills that are unable to monetize them. Many people have discovered new hobbies and passions during the lockdown that they could sell and profit from. Although here’s the catch, not everyone has the time or luxury to get reach and manage services to achieve the same. Be it a 40-year old housewife who bakes the best cookies in town, the tailor that stitches beautiful shirts, the unemployed teacher that is the smartest in the area, the fruit vendor who has the ripest mangoes or that college student who can code entire apps in a week who so surprisingly has a sister that is on par with picasso, these people might be held back from monetizing their passions due to lack of resources. There is a high demand for fresh locally produced products and we aim to satisfy that by looking into our own neighborhoods before importing items.