How the Work Began
Once back from Europe, he set about exploring what he could do to solve this issue. That's what engineers are for, isn't it? Still in his third year of college, he started conceptualizing a technology that would skim through the hundreds of options available, apply intelligent algorithms to these and present the best routes to reach any destination. And not just to cities, but also villages, localities and small towns. Very soon after envisaging this, he approached his friend and hostel-mate Abhishek Aggarwal with the business ideas. He proposed that they together create a tangible platform out of the vision. And just like that, the bug of entrepreneurship had bitten them.They would attend classes during the day and burn the midnight oil in order to build a product that would re-imagine travel planning and add value in the lives of millions. Over many pizzas and cups of coffees, the website slowly began to take shape.
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Nikunj also introduced them to the snapdeal.com founders, Rohit Bansal and Kunal Behl, who went on to provide seed funding to the business ideas in March 2015.
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The Vision of Door to Door
Once the route-planner was up and running, they realized that making multiple bookings on a mobile is even more painful and time-consuming. Booking an entire multimodal journey in one shot, that too on a mobile, was a visionary idea. This means that you could book your travel from Bandra West, Mumbai to Shimla, which has no direct connectivity, in one go; they present ready-to-book combos of flights, trains, buses and cabs for the journey. With mobile users crossing 1 billion in India, they could see the idea appealing to a huge volume of consumers. They launched the door-to-door travel booking Routofy app in January 2016, which is already serving a large user base of travellers. The positive feedback and reviews have been a great encouragement to their efforts and they are working on introducing new features. Routofy can be explored here.Ronak Gupta, the co-founder and CEO of Routofy, speaks of the journey travelled by his initial business ideas, "Barely out of college, we were both reaching out for something huge. Seeing that the success rate of start-ups is lower than 10%, it's a dream come true to see Routofy doing so well. We closed bookings worth more than INR 1.5 million last month in April. It is my responsibility as an entrepreneur to filter the exhaustive list of choices, apply intelligence to it and present an assortment that I feel is most relevant to my customers' needs. And that is the philosophy behind our work - to make travel as seamless and convenient as possible for people."The startup tied up with Uber recently on Mother's Day, wherein an on-demand was run on the latter's app. Ten selected winners received an all-expenses paid trip to visit their moms on this special occasion.
This is another example of what they stand for, to reduce the physical & emotional distances between people and bring them closer.
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