{"id":6687,"date":"2019-06-18T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arkasoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:45:46","slug":"develop-service-marketplace-app-like-urbanclap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arkasoftwares.com\/blog\/develop-service-marketplace-app-like-urbanclap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Develop a Service Marketplace App Like UrbanClap and TaskRabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On-Demand services apps have taken the world by storm. Who thought the customers can simply tap their smartphones to avail plethora of services, without even going out of their homes?<\/span><\/p>\n

From booking a technician to calling a hairdresser home, from asking a plumber to fix your taps to getting cleaning experts, on-demand service apps have an answer to every modern challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n

With the growing usage of home appliances like microwave ovens, air conditioners, refrigerators, laptops, etc, one needs experienced service experts to maintain and upkeep them. This has created a massive demand for on-demand service apps in the market.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apps like TaskRabbit and UrbanCompany (Urban Clap) have made their niche space in the on-demand app market, because of the unprecedented ease and convenience they offer to the customers. These apps offer a platform where users can place a request for services, and then they get the experts at their doorstep.<\/span><\/p>\n

On-demand services apps offer a high-income business model, which is influencing the entrepreneurs to join this space and build their on-demand service apps. If you are planning to create a platform, where you want to offer services like real estate experts, home cooks, plumbers, technicians, architects, and even bartenders, then this is the right time to grab this opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this blog, we will give our best shot to make you understand the functions of on-demand service apps, and the process, cost, and technical aspects involved in app development for your business. We are pretty much sure that this will address your concerns around the on-demand service app development.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is quite inspiring to see how UrbanClap started in 2014<\/strong> and in FY2019<\/strong> their revenue reached all the way up to USD $17 million<\/strong>. To give you a contrast, their revenue was USD $1.6 million<\/strong> in 2017<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

If this is not enough, UrbanClap has raised total funding of USD $110 million<\/strong> in eight rounds. In addition, according to UrbanClap, they are expecting to increase their revenue by 3 times<\/strong> in the very next financial year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the on-demand home services market size is expected to grow by USD\u00a04.75 billion\u00a0<\/b>from 2022 to 2026 at a CAGR of 60.77%<\/b>\u00a0as per the latest market report by Technavio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the facts and figures, the on-demand service market is worth investing. And developing a service marketplace app<\/a> is the portal to entering this market. <\/span><\/p>\n

In this blog, we will capture all the essential steps of building an on-demand service market mobile app while keeping UrbanClap in the focus. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, we will also take some excursions to the feature list and revenue model and end this journey by evaluating the overall cost of service provider app development.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

<\/span>What is an On-Demand Service Marketplace?<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Think about the problem. If you want to go to a salon, first you manage your schedule and take some time off for it. Then you take an hour-long ride, fighting irritating traffic. Finally, you reach the salon and get all the things done and you repeat the same tedious process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now think about a solution. You want to go to a salon. But now you don\u2019t take your car out of your home, you simply take your phone out of your pocket and open an on-demand service app and you call salon specialists at your home. So now YOU don\u2019t go to the salon but the salon itself comes to YOUR place. Did you like the way tables turned?<\/span><\/p>\n

But wait, for a growing and sustainable business, mere providing a solution to the problem is not enough. After consuming the solution service, eventually, people are going to seek what more your business can offer.<\/span><\/p>\n\n