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Owned by Sanchit Sethi, a BITS-Pilani graduate, the 2015 start-up aims to facilitate affordable room-renting services for short as 8-10 hours without any hassles. “There is no law in India that prohibits (unmarried) couples from renting a room. As long as you have a government identity card, you should be given a room. We don’t live in the 1950s anymore. What we are trying to do is change the mindset of hoteliers,” Sethi told Quartz.
Earlier, Sethi’s plan was to cater to travellers but he realised that most of the inquiries they received were from unmarried couples. Hence, they decided to change the plan. Reportedly, they have provided services to 200-odd couples till date.
Privacy is and will always remain a concern in budget hotels, but Sethi ensures that the hotels who have tied up with StayUncle are safe.
And most interestingly, the company of three, as they have written on their blog has crowdsourced everything. After the word spread on social media, they are getting calls and requests from across the country. They write “You demand better website. Android app. iOS app. Hotels in Chennai, Calcutta, Dehradun, Allahabad, Mysore, Kanyakumari, Chandigarh, Katra,” to which their solution is people can built a mobile app for StayUncle, design a better website, rope in hotels from their cities, all of which will be considered seriously by the company.
