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<aside> 💡 tl;dr We built EazyPG with college interns as an MVP. In 10 months, it became the default system to manage 30k+ tenants across 1000+ PGs. Now, we are again building a product from scratch to make renting a simple and happy experience for everyone from a taxing one. We are looking for a senior backend engineer to join our two-member engineering team as our Founding Engineer. More Details
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Hey, I am Srijan. I was changing my address every 8 months. So I started EazyPG to make rental living a happy experience. At EazyPG, I spend most of my time designing products, making our users happier, and occasionally in marketing. When free, I am either talking about capitalism or spirituality.
Hello World 👋 I am Nimit, an environmental engineer by degree but developer at heart. At 21, I decided there can't be a better use of my time than to build something that would save hundreds of hours for millions of people. At EazyPG, I code & design. I am always up for a quick game of chess.
We have been staying in rented properties since our school days and had mostly been unhappy tenants. So while in college, we started with a 25-bed property to provide a better living experience and scaled to 200 beds, 5 properties & $300k annual rent flow in 2 years.
But while running this business, we frequently struggled with negative cash flow, untimely rent payments, redundant work of tenant verification, and manual accounting. Everything was done either orally, through pen-paper, or on excel sheets, and dependent on unskilled staff.
Later in 2018, an employee ran away with some collected rent in cash. This made us talk to other PG owners to understand how they manage. We realized they face similar problems. We were into this space since we were 19, knew it inside out both as tenants & owners, and were engineers.
So we quickly built an MVP (android apps for owners & tenants), launched for public in Jun'19, became a finalist in Lightspeed EE 2019, scaled to 1000+ properties (400+ paid users), 30k+ tenants, and raised VC funding before COVID hit India in March. All this while, we were working from our college incubator with a few interns.
During COVID, while PGs & hostels were shut down, we saw many other types of property owners trying to use the EazyPG App. And that's when it hit us - even though India runs on renting, renting out has not become simple!
Most owners rent through their social network but sharing the property details is messy. A bank account can be opened online but to do tenant KYC & rental agreement, most people have to visit Police Station, notary, or lawyers. UPI payment is a breeze still we need dozens of reminders for timely payments. Home service is available on a click yet complaints don't get resolved easily.
This is a type of problem that is boring, repeats every month or year, often has trust issues, involves lots of payments, and to & fro communication. Exactly the type of problem which when solved will make you wonder how else it used to happen before (think UBER)?