StartUp Idea – KGB for India?
Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by Bharat in Start Up
I was looking at some articles about ChaCha.com and KGB and was wondering if that would be something Indian people would get into? If you don’t know what KGB is, its a texting service that answers your questions. You send an sms to them from you phone asking a question and they send an answer back to you. The idea itself has taken off in the US in recent months and more and more such services are coming up. Chacha.com has the same service except that it’s completely free (sms charges apply of course) and they receive about 300,000 million questions a day they claim.
In addition to answering you question, the question and answer it self goes into an archive and is available for searching on their website. So if you are online, you can simply search they site for any question in your mind, but then we have Google for that!
India has very good sms usage which is also cheaper than here in the US. I have tried to find such a service in India but haven’t had any luck. Ironicaly I sent a question to ChaCha asking about it and the reply was vague selling their website and not giving me any real answer. None the less, since I’m not India right now, I might be missing it. If no such service exists though, I think it would be a nice start up India for someone to implement.
Of course, getting a SMS short code and maintaining a staff required quiet a bit of money, so make sure you have enough to support you through a few months before you can do some fund raising.
