OnYoMo Blog: Lets Share !

Hello,

Here is a brief update on what we’ve been upto.

We have extended ourselves to 11 cities now, including:
- Delhi/NCR
- Mumbai
- Bangalore
- Chennai
- Kolkata
- Hyderabad
- Ahmedabad
- Pune
- Jaipur
- Chandigarh
- Goa

There are many more cities coming over the next few months!

In these cities, we’ve attempted to put together some of the categories we felt would be immense use to you. Especially in the shopping section. We’ve added pretty much most brands, and retail chains that are out there. Then we’ve also added categories such as Plumbers, Electricians coz we realized these are the things that you might need day in day out. Then there are the usual Restaurants, Movies, Hotels, Cafes, Hospitals, ATMs, Airlines, Florists etc etc..

Needless to add, we sincerely hope that our users keep contributing to our database, by informing us of the hottest new restaurant that we don’t have, or about any missing chain or category etc.

Look forward to your help in helping us help others in finding what they need!!! Did we hear TMH (too much help )

OnYoMo began where they stopped.

You guys are nuts - this will never take off… No other company has tried this before - why do you want to take this untested path??.. But what would stop any internet biggie to replicate your model overnight.. What are you trying to be - a mix of google, yahoo, ebay or what??.. These and many such comments that our initial discussions and efforts around OnYoMo drew constantly drove us to soulsearch what we were trying to be, and what we wanted to be - they crystallized our thoughts around our objectives.

With a 100+% belief and commitment, an overarching vision and a little cash, two people started this quest to make everyday life better! Aaah…what a grand objective…abstract too!! Underlying thought being “Availability of rich, accurate and timely information gives us higher satisfaction in almost every little thing that we do everyday. It enriches the overall quality of our life.”

Now its a universal truth that 3 is better than 2 - so we got a 3rd member to complete the founding trio that would put the bigger pieces together to weave the OnYoMo canvas. All three - vastly different in style, horrendously passionate, and a bit dreamy - but with that burning desire to translate those dreams…

Set off to do local search on products and services - launched Delhi and Bangalore end of Dec’05. Felt local maps would be a great value add over search results, so added that too. Pls no questions around who designed our UI, how we secured map data, tech etc etc. Wanted to do it..worked really hard and managed to do it (if we did that is!).

Till date, there has been no looking back. Our ambitions have only grown. And OnYoMo has had the fortune of receiving contributions from some really really outstanding and smart team members (OnYoMoites??..Dynamites??!!). Members who uniformly believe(d) in OnYoMo, in its aims. OnYoMo is also truly inspired by positive remarks and constructive feedbacks from thousands of users from hundred different cities all over India!

Till the time OnYoMo continues to receive approval from its user community, the march towards Where OnYoMo belongs will continue!

contd…Where OnYoMo belongs?

our goal always was that we would be THE comprehensive source of data for all the categories we do..restaurants, bars etc etc…but it takes heck of an effort and sometimes you wonder if the marginal benefit is worth it.
so the dilemna always is do you put that extra bit of effort in finding that chaat wala tucked in a corner of colaba or just go with the “popular” joints.

i think it is. It’s always great when find that great place near your office serving your favourite food,that you had never heard of, that never advertises. and i hope onyomo helps our users find it.There is no point in being a restaurant finder or hotel finder or anything else for that matter if you dont cover 95% of the category.
on the other hand regardless of how hard you try you will still miss places. how does one get to know of these? we are thinking of it..and hopefully you will see something soon.

One of the most exciting thing in a start-up is to hear from the people using the product or services. This is one thing that motivates and inspires us to keep discovering the best. Here we have compiled what you have been saying to us, sometimes it is suggestions to improve other times demands for ‘more’ … Other times there are comments which are so generous and satisfying that we dont even remember missing that dabba of lunch! .. and sometime plain “you s**k !”.
Here we have put what some of you have said, Be it Bouquets or Brickbats — All are Welcome.

Siddharth: I think onyomo is really original, and the first of its kind in our country. It would do better if it gave live feeds of weather services. For eg. If i wanted to go to ITO, and i wanted information about the water looging situation there(It has rained heavily today), Onyomo could provide relevant info. about such matters.And then i could take a decision of whether or not to take my car there!!
Nazia : Hello! this is Nazia from Hyderabad I have read an article about onyomo on ibnlive.com and did go through u’r site which really is a helpfull one. Can I expect Hyderabad to join the run!?

Samir : Hi, i think this is good start and it will help a lot of people on the same.But this site should be advertise .so that people will know abt the same.

Aparnaa : hi, First i would like to congradulate u for this good work!! its a novel idea. there are many ways u could improve this better. just today i had a quick look and tried a search in bangalore ..i am fomr bangalore.. itried the following .. in first text box: icici ten i gave pin as 560078 and then in the categories drop down i selected ATM,its giving out the complete list of icici atms ..thats ok..but b4 it starts the serach i saw a quick popup that said seraching for florists!!! i think u need to check the details for that popup, its describing someother search!! i’ll let u know my feedbacks later.. it will be great if we have one such site with complete features about our city!!

Sriram.s : Respeceted Sir, I find your search engine to be excellent particularly for those who r new to the city.I wish that u extend this service to all the major cities in India so that it wuld be useful for number of people.I congratulate u for the exceellent job done and convey my best wishes to th entire team of onyomo to grow further, reach greater heights and to serve numerous people.

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