Baby Gear Rental Service – BQ

This service is a business platform model like AirBnB, Rover, or Uber, a baby equipment rental marketplace business, also known as #1 Baby Gear Rental Service.

Features

• Rent gear: Customers can easily get their needed gears, find the closest partners in the area, and complete their orders. Customers can feel free to contact partners.
• Partners Management: Our partners have their own website that can set up their site, can manage their gear, and make their money.
• Cleaning service: BQ also offers an on-demand, exceptional cleaning service for baby gear including car seats, strollers, high chairs, and more.

Challenges

• Business concepts often change quickly.
• Two main websites (Rentals – Cleaning) are built on different frameworks (CakePHP – Laravel), but some features in both sites using data in rental db (promotions, gift cards,…). It causes conflicts, and be hard to extend our ideas.

Solutions

• Having to review business ideas carefully with designers and team before starting to work.
• Finding new business plans to extend platforms and apply new technologies.

Business outcomes

• We grow very fast. We made $3 million in gross revenue in 2019, and an 85% increase from 2018.
• This BQ was invited to the Shark Tank show and aired in 2019.
• Partners with many big platforms, like Destination Hotels, Guesty, Booking.com…