You need someone to urgently deliver a birthday cake and Coca Cola in the
middle of the night? Or do you need to be rescued from your broken down
car in the middle of nowhere? What if you get a genie who treats you as his
master? What if you utter a wish and God says immediately –
“TATHASTU”?
Seems like a dream right? But four IITtians from IIT Mumbai have come up
with a startup to make this dream come true! And they named it ‘Tathastu’.
‘Tathastu’ is a brain child of Chirag Chadha, Anshul Avasthi, Prashanth
Villa and Nivvedan, which is a WhatsApp based local personal assistance
service that helps people get various day-to-day tasks done.
How ‘Tathastu’ started??
Being students, the co founders of Tathastu had been using most of the
latest apps. But they soon realized that no one really likes to download so
many apps, which comes into use once in awhile. For instance you buy
clothes once in a month but you have to download various shopping apps
to buy just one dress. Or may be you need a taxi once in awhile but have to
download an app to book it for just that particular instance.
They followed the data for what the users like to do on their mobile
phones. And found out that 70% of the time spent by people on their
smartphones is spent on texting/IM based. Thus the idea came up of a one
stop texting solution to all the needs of a customer.Just Whatsapp them
what you want, whenever you want it, and they will do it for you.
“The basic idea was to create a solution that brought together human and
machine intelligence. Tathastu is your personal assistant. They will use
every trick up our sleeves to make sure that no one who approaches them
goes back empty handed. And as for what they can do – the sky is the
limit.”
How it works:
once a user is registered, they are added to a waitlist (which is currently
close to 6,000 people). So far, Tathastu has granted access to just 600 users
but this number will go up soon.
The app takes two kind of requests— information and time-based ones. The
former requires the staff to look up solutions, call up vendors, and make
reservations and bookings on the behalf of clients. In the latter, Tathastu
sends out its own riders to make pickups and deliveries, or fill out forms,
etc.
If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney
So start dreaming and be ready to face all challenges in the process of
meeting your dream.
-Sahithya Reddy K(ECE B-4/4)