Pet owners often find themselves in a difficult situation when they need to urgently leave for business or go on a business trip, but leaving a pet unattended is also impossible. After all, he needs to be regularly fed, paid attention and walked. In such situations, overexposure services become the solution to the problem – special platforms where you can find a petsitter who will provide the pet with professional care during the absence of the owner.
To look at this situation from a business point of view, we suggest turning to statistics.
According to American analysts, every third pet owner is a working person aged 20-45. That is, this is a solvent audience that has money and a desire to provide comfort to their pet, but little time. As a result, overexposure platforms have become increasingly popular in recent years.
Below, we’ll show you how to take advantage of this trend and launch your own petsitting platform.
After analyzing the market, we came to the conclusion that most petsitting platforms operate according to one of two business models:
Mediation
In this model, the platform works like a bulletin board and is monetized through paid listing of petsitters, banner ads, and premium features. At the same time, services are provided completely free of charge for the client side.
The main disadvantage of this model is that pet owners will have to rely entirely on the honesty of the performer. To some extent, a reliable system of ratings and reviews can help here. But in order to ensure the highest level of trust, the platform administration will have to take responsibility for verifying the qualifications of the performers. By the way, the introduction of “verified accounts” can become another source of income for the company.
Own staff of petsitters
In this case, the company receives full payment for the provision of services and is responsible for the quality of their provision. On the one hand, this approach gives the maximum level of trust on the part of customers, but on the other hand, it imposes some restrictions in terms of business expansion, since:
When developing a service for keeping animals, it is important to focus on maximum automation. This will make the interaction between clients and petsitters comfortable, and will also positively influence the popularization of the platform on the Web.
The main features of this project include:
The stability and performance of the service for overexposure of animals directly depends on how optimally the technological stack was selected. There may be several options here:
In the first case, we will get maximum performance and full integration with each platform, and when using the SDK, we will be able to significantly save the budget, but the system performance will have to be sacrificed a little.
Our team selects technologies individually, taking into account the characteristics of each individual project, as well as the priorities and budget of the customer.
Animal care service is a technically complex project, so when implementing it, our team uses an iterative approach based on the Scrum methodology. The life cycle of such a product often consists of six stages. Let’s consider them in more detail.
Stage 1. Gathering information
Starting work on a new project, the team studies the requirements of the customer, conducts in-depth market analysis and creates high-level documentation.
Stage 2. UX design
This is a preparatory stage, during which a preliminary design of the user interface is created, the functionality logic is designed and the viability of new ideas is tested. In fact, during the design process, a detailed prototype of the project is created, which will become the basis for developers at all subsequent stages. As a rule, it includes:
Stage 3. Design development
The interface plays an important role in any digital product, therefore, in order to achieve the optimal result, we offer the client several UI options. After the visual concept is approved, fonts, illustrations, animations and other components are superimposed on the warframe, as a result of which the GUI acquires an attractive and natural appearance.
Stage 4. Programming
The technical development of the service for overexposure of animals consists of two parts:
Stage 5. Testing
Thorough testing allows you to bring to the market the most prepared product for operation. To do this, QA engineers are involved in almost all stages of development, and their area of responsibility includes:
Stage 6. Technical support and development
After the release, the development of the service for overexposure of animals does not stop. Next, you need to focus on optimizing and developing the functionality, as well as on solving technical issues that users may have at first. To do this, the product is transferred to technical support.
Most pet owners are committed to the welfare of their pets and are willing to spend money on it. And given that this trend is constant and does not lose relevance, investments in the development of a petsitting service will most likely pay off and bring profit.
AVADA MEDIA has all the necessary experience and formed teams of qualified specialists for the development of PetTech projects. In our work, we rely on careful design, innovative technologies and close interaction with the customer. This approach allows us to create thoughtful and competitive technical solutions that are in demand in the market.
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