Hello friends!
I need your views on my idea. Please throw some hard hitting question or any encouragement that’ll help me through.
A platform for different service providers such as restaurants, pubs, saloons, hotels, colleges, institutes, showrooms etc. to display their information, offers, events, virtual tour, video etc. Here people don’t have to pay for the offers like timesdeal, groupon etc.
We plan to start it from Delhi then expand later.
Basically, my idea revolves around one of the services that I offer, which is virtual tours. Virtual tours are similar to google street view. We can have a 360º view of a place from a single point of view. Please follow these links for a demo..
Rodinhood openhouse(Gurgaon): https://360spinlab.com/portfolio/events/therodinhood/therodinhood.html
Event: https://www.360spinlab.com/portfolio/events/ad-tech/ad-tech.html
Hotel: https://www.360spinlab.com/portfolio/hotel_madhuban/madhuban_3dtour.html
Showroom: https://www.360spinlab.com/portfolio/showroom/sunilmehra/sunilmehra_3dtour.html
college: https://www.360spinlab.com/portfolio/dit/dit_demo.html
Now, this thing is fun, its more of a hobby to me. I love making them.
I recently covered whole of shimla… you just have to keep clicking on points to move forward or backward
https://www.360spinlab.com/blog/shimla/virtualtour.html
Ok! getting back to the idea..
- From the service providers, we will charge a subscription fee of Rs. 2000 for 6 months and on the first subscription,
- we will offer them 2 virtual tours for free (2 virtual tours would cost them around Rs. 10k -12k in market) and a business page, which would be attached to their account. They can edit their information by themselves.
- These virtual tours can be embedded on their personal website or any other through a code. These tours will carry our logo and ads if any.
- They can buy these tours from us any time at market rates, where they will get all the data, otherwise they are dependent on us for the hosting.
- Now incase their requirement is more than 2 tours, they can choose from a personalized (market rate) and cheaper plan.
The business model is to spend money upfront on pipeline and infrastructure and start earning from the subscriptions, ads and the services we offer. and creating value by providing people with free offers and sharing valuable information with them.
We think that if we offer service providers value for money, plus so many value added features and the exposure that will come through by the free offers that people are going to get.., will encourage more people to spend that small sum and get listed. Plus it will be a different thing for people to get a glimpse of the infrastructure so clearly through virtual tours. 
I hope we can earn some trust from people.
All your comment are very valuable and I am sure, I will be able to fix any aspect that I am missing here.
Thank you
Amir Raza