AGRIYA has been witnessing  revolutionary mark-up, ever since it had slowly started to transform itself into a Product development company, by releasing many successful social networking and knowledge sharing products into the market, notably Rayzz worlds No 1 video sharing platform, Anova No 1 Q&A platform, Isocial and Kootali, the best Social networking platforms in the market. At this time of chronology, Our customers, Our Fanboys and including myself at Agriya were wondering and thinking deep deep down the ground as to what should be the next product, the next big thing that we can build that will not just help 100′s and 1000′s of entrepreneurs, SMEs and increase enterprise-benefits across the globe , but also that would shift  AGRIYA Itself into top gear!

Since I have already discovered that everyone at Agriya closely follow start-up-scene happenings across the globe, I believed that we have a chance here to make immense, and one such start-up-based out in Chicago did happen to catch my attention big time and that was none other than  Groupon, because of its innovative concept it started to take the tech world by storm and slowly started to reach the main stream adoption. Once again Agriya had its eureka movement at this juncture, and discovered that this was a great idea, which can help local business to flourish by offering great discounts and to connect with its customers directly.

Immediately we organized  strategic team to pull out the possible outcomes of the product, and many table-discussions followed after setting up this strategic team, as should this be the next big product that Agriya should build!?, Finally we struck a decision when the consensus was reached, after which we got our brightest tech team behind the product analysis / planning / development etc to build the BIG boy!

After burning countless hours our team released the 1st version of GroupDeal, which had all the basic features of groupon, but as always AGRIYA did introduce some really cool ideas like self serve option for Merchants (which groupon introduced at a very later stage).

I have never seen a product, that would not have challenges etc at least at it’s initial stages. even our groupon product had several challenges, one of the main being Tipping point (Pre-Authorization / Do Capture) etc. And not a lot of payment gateways had this option out of the box, but  thanks to Paypal and Authorize.net which did have these as a part of their API. So our team was able to mimic exactly like how groupon worked in terms of tipping point (that is a charge will not happen on your credit card till the min no of buyers actually buy the product / service put on sale) and I am proud to say that we were the first ones in the market to have come up with the groupon clone and also having properly understood how groupon worked and implemented it in the same way.

I am also glad for having launched “Agriya Ideas”  a crowd funded product development approach with tipping point along the lines of how groupon operates.

I have to admint that we did have our fair share of mistakes in launching the product too early to the customers, which did result in quiet a lot of bugs early on. But thanks to our early customers and our relentlessness tech team which kept working harder and harder to resolve any reported bugs at the shortest time possible. I am always ever-indebted to our customers and I will continue to be so, for one, they are the only reason we have survived and still exist in business today and the second main reason being their courtesies shown towards the sharing of really great ideas / feedback / insights. Myself and people at AGRIYA are always obliged to serve our customers in the highest and best way possible. In this regards I have also taken quiet a lot of initiatives recently, internally to greatly improve the overall product even in beta releases. I am keenly looking forward to the launch of our 2 other major products shortly.

Time and time again I have witnessed a quiet a lot of our competitors closely following Agriya and its foot steps, be informed that we were the first ones to launch a youtube clone back in 2005 / 2006 and immediately after the release we saw quiet a lot of our competitors do the same by following our ideas to create it. This time again it is no different, I have also started spotting out a lot of other competitors who have started to offer groupon clones (but sadly not that great). But never the less none have the depth / expertise / vision as we have, and they are neither revolutionary nor evolutionary, in Agriya we don’t just try to copy / clone a product blatantly but also see ways and means to improve from the original idea itself and constantly evolve the software over a sustained period of time which goes beyond the life span of the business model itself. For example Agriya still continues to develop / support / evolve our youtube clone, but sadly there is virtually 0 companies which does that, most companies are like a flash in the pan / fly by night, they see a big wave make an 1/2 baked product, sell some copies (because they price it so cheap) and after few months they disappear. I personally think that being innovative, developing a good solid product, giving great support, continued development and support of the product for beyond an acceptable period of time, are some of the key areas where Agriya sets it self apart from the others and that’s why we continue to sell so many of our software even though there are several competitors offering products at much cheaper rate.

So at this point I would once again like to thank each and everyone of our customers for their support / co-operations / ideas / bugs reported / feedback / confidence / faith / providing us with an opportunity to serve them and last but not least for being the complete reason for Agriya’s existence and growth.

Below you will find some of the greatest websites that would have not been possible without our Agriya’s Groupdeal product, and I feel proud in sharing this info with you all.

My personal message to others whose sites have not yet been featured, don’t loose heart / don’t loose hope. Fighters will definitely become Champions one day, if they continue to fight  as we have done so far..

Groupdeal is available to buy right now, come and check out the demo and see for yourself how awesome this product is.

A recent survey of young professionals and freelancers discovered that more than ever people are choosing the flexible freelance lifestyle over a corporate 9-5 job. Infact, 39% of people born after 1981 (sometimes referred to as millennials as they entered the job market from 2000 onwards) wanted to work at times and in conditions that suited them.

Furthermore, given the uncertain economy, more people than ever before are looking to supplement their income with any amount that they can, just look at the success of sites like Fiverr where people will do almost any type of work for a few dollars.

This willingness of the millennials to decide their own destiny and people looking for any type of work they can do from home presents a fantastic opportunity for anyone looking to capitalize on the fast growing freelance industry. In the same survey mentioned above, 95% of respondents said that they looked for freelance work online and preferred the convenience of seeing what work was available rather than actively seeking out work offline.

All this means that when you choose GetLancer, Agriya’s latest product, you are tapping in to a market that is hungry for work and a business environment where companies are keen to embrace the flexibility that freelancers can provide – from a business point of view freelancers don’t require office space, human resources, administration and a whole host of other expenses.

GetLancer is a product of Agriya’s Idea’s incubation programme where interested investors pledge their own money to deliver a product that blows everything else away. This isn’t a product that Agriya’s programmers think you want, this is a product designed, created and optimized by people that are willing to invest their own money in to making the greatest freelancer software available today. They haven’t let us have it easy either; 6 months in the making, we have been fine tuning it to their exact requirements and haven’t launched the product until they are 100% happy that what we have now is the best piece of software available.

We have incorporated the most popular features from all the big freelance sites like elance, scriptlance, freelancer, rentacoder, guru and oDesk so it’s difficult to say it’s a clone of any one particular website, more like a clone of the best features from all these websites.

Your users can post job requirements and thanks to the built in geo-locator the software is smart enough to know where the job is located so freelancers can discover jobs in their local area or the user can specify that only freelancers from a certain area can apply.This gives you a great edge if you want to target your site to a particular market or you don’t want the market to be flooded with cheap bids.

A built in project management tool helps the user set milestones and goals for the programmer who will be able to receive portions of the project money each time they reach a milestone set by the user. This means no more waiting until the end of the project to get paid and the freelancer can better manage their expenses and knows exactly when they will be getting their income (assuming they do the work to meet the milestones of course).

The software has been built to be as automatic and ‘hands free’ as possible to the point where even when the inevitable dispute arises, the software tries to automatically resolve the issue before you have to get involved.

Everything is taken care of by the software, from the deposits, the escrow, milestones, part-payment transfers, disputes, withdrawal requests and more. This leaves you free to promote and market your new freelancer website.

Your new freelance website, using GetLancer doesn’t mean you have to offer all kinds of freelance services, infact focusing on a certain type of freelance job and growing your website from there will be the best way to build your site because it helps to focus your marketing efforts. If you focus just on Flash animations, you can target freelance Flash designers and get them to sign up to your site, then using SEO or AdWords, promote your site as the place to go for Flash services, Flash customization and Flash games development.

You can make money in a whole variety of ways using GetLancer and it’s been designed especially to squeeze as much money out of your users as possible (but not in a bad way!). You can choose to set a fee for your users to post new projects, most sites charge from $5 to $25 per project. Then, once your website becomes more popular you can let your users make their project stand out from the crowd with the featured project option which can be another flat fee of $20 or more. You can also take a flat fee or a percentage commission on the final agreed price of the project, so if a project is awarded for $1000 and you take a 2% fee then you earn $20.

Every project that is posted to your website has the potential to earn $25 or more after the fees and commissions are taken in to account, compare that to a site like Scriptlance who have over 100 projects posted everyday and you could be looking at a very lucrative income and thanks to the automation built in to the script, it’s going to give you the time to be with your family or enjoy life on your own terms, not be locked up in the 9-5 cabin.

GetLancer is available to buy right now, come and check out the demo and see for yourself how awesome this new product is.

If you have any questions, comments or thoughts, please let us know in the comments below and we’ll get them answered for you.

The success of Feedy can be traced back to the valuable input, comments and bug reports given to us by our customers and we have continued to improve and refine the software based on their feedback. Now, version 1 of Feedy is almost unrecognizable from the original software (if you look at the code) so we decided it’s time to take on board all the new information and data we have about what people want from a deals aggregation script and build Feedy 2.0.

Feedy 2.0 comes with a fantastic brand new default design and layout with some really awesome slider bars to help your visitors and users refine and zone in on the exact types of deals they are looking for. The new deal filter options will set your site apart from the crowd and make your business the place for people to go to find out all the deals that are happening in their area.

Of course, no major version change isn’t complete with out some serious optimization and speed improvements to the code and Feedy 2.0 is no different. In our baseline tests we have found that the new version loads approximately 22% faster when compared with the older version when using the same deal feeds.

Groupon is the number one group buying website in the industry and now thanks to our all new Groupon API integration your site can feature the biggest player and the best deals without having to worry about feed or data problems because it all comes from Groupon’s purpose made API. Other new features include the option for admins to parse RSS feeds in JSON format, ability to have the iframe activated on the deal page to show the details of the deal from the 3rd party website and the option for users to subscribe to deals from multiple cities.

There have been a number of small, niggling bugs that have been addressed in this new version such as fixing the Facebook Connect (Dear Facebook, please stop changing your code and breaking 3rd party developer scripts!), the Google Translate option has been fixed (Dear Google, please stop changing your code and breaking 3rd party developer scripts!) and for anyone who is an existing Feedy customer you’ll be pleased to hear that the troublesome deleting image on deals that has affected some of you has been rectified.

Feedy 2.0 is available to buy and download today, it costs just $500 and many people just like you have been using it to cash in on the lucrative daily deals industry. Feedy 2.0 is the ultimate low cost solution which removes all barriers to entry in to this market as you can test the waters to see if your marketing skills are good enough to launch your very own daily deals website. Take it for a demo now.
 

Foodspotting have recently secured $3m in Series A funding and the concept is catching on as people want to share everything about themselves, not just where they are but what they are doing, eating and drinking there. Infact, Foodspotting has become so popular that Facebook have integrated it as one of their essential apps as part of their ‘frictionless’ sharing – where you share what you are doing without having to do anything, the apps do it for you automatically.

Attention like this means that it has caught the eye of many entrepreneurs around the world who want to introduce a similar concept to their own market and we’ve had a number of requests for a Foodspotting clone in the last few months. As regular readers to this blog will know, Agriya now exclusively develops software through our Ideas portal where entrepreneurs and investors from around the world can join together to get a share of each product we develop and earn up to 200% of their money back.

The Foodspotting clone project has generated enough interest to move from voting to funding and we are now looking for people to get in on the ground floor of this project. If you are looking to create a Foodspotting clone website then this is the ideal opportunity because not only are you getting the full software for a fraction of the cost you will have a big say in the development of the features and you will get a share of the sales until you get up to 200% of your money back. The other advantage is that you get to be one of the first sites to get up and running, gaining a clear advantage on any other potential competitors.

The project has a budget of $9,000 and investors have already pledged 25% of that. You can pledge just $750 (which will be a discount on the regular price plus you get all the additional benefits mentioned above) and there is no maximum that you can pledge. If you have been looking for a Foodspotting clone script then this is an opportunity you can’t pass up. Head over to the Agriya Ideas portal now to read more about the project, find out about the current investors and get involved with the discussion from other people interesting in running a site like this.

The Agriya Ideas portal has already seen a huge amount of success with BuySell, Burrow and GrubWithUs all being products of this crowdfunded concept. Investors in these products are already running their websites and earning a return on all sales that are made for these products.

The pulsing dance beat can send a flow of cash in to your bank account when you launch your own ClubPlanet clone and target avid party goers and disco junkies. With everything you need to become the number one destination portal for party people everywhere, PartyPlanet is the ultimate events, venues and community platform.

You’ll have everything you need to turn your site in to a high traffic portal with the option to add regular news updates, upload photos and videos and even let people plan their own party nights right from your website. It doesn’t matter whether you are targeting a specific location or plan to go national, PartyPlanet can grow as your site grows.

Events can help drive the success of your site as you host parties to get the word out and then post the photos and videos to your site for all the party goers to check out, rate, comment and share with others. As you host more parties the number of visitors to your site will increase and you can start letting other people add their venues and events to your site (maybe for free, maybe you can charge a fee) which in turn drives more traffic as they promote the event and post photos and videos for people to check out afterwards.

The news section lets you add articles and newsworthy topics which you can collect from the venues and event organizers who use your site. A constantly updated blog with new nightlife information will keep people coming back for more and they can even share the information with their friends, building your site brand and making it become known as the place to get the best information.

Clean and modern or dark and trendy? It might sound like a strange question but with the PartyPlanet you get to choose from two built in templates. The first has a modern, clean layout which is bright and fresh, the other template is dark and stylish. No matter what image you want to project, these two very different templates will be in keeping with your brand image. Expect more PartyPlanet templates to be available soon.

One of the best implementations of PartyPlanet is on one of the Caribbean islands (famous for their laid back approach to life) where the company organizes events like Halloween parties, cruises, house parties and more for the expats living there. It’s become hugely successful and a business model that could be replicated across the world.

Building a business with PartyPlanet is a long term strategy and requires a blend of offline and online marketing and promotion. To get the business off the ground you will need to organize events or have contacts with people who can organize the events. Once your website becomes more popular you can charge businesses to list their own events, offer venues the option of a premium subscription to be featured and of course you can integrate Google AdSense to make a passive income.

PartyPlanet is built on the proven CakePHP 2.0 framework (the same framework that powers GroupDeal, FP Platform and others) which is very well documented. The cost is $1,000 and you can start your own ClubPlanet software right now.
 

To date, Clickbank claim to have processed over $2bn worth of transactions since they began which is not bad considering all they need to do is process the credit card payments and run a skeleton staff.

Numerous people have been in touch with us over the years and asked for a Clickbank clone script and we’re pleased to say that the project has moved from voting to funding in our Agriya Ideas portal. With a budget of $10,500 investors have already pledged $3,000 so it’s well on its way to being fully funded.

If you want to build a turnkey website that processes payments for digital marketers (or anyone looking to sell actually) with full affiliate management then this is a project you need to be involved with right now. For just $750, which is much less than the script will eventually sell for, you can get a ground floor position to help direct the project, suggest features and ensure that the final product is the best piece of software available on the market.

Furthermore, Agriya rewards all investors with a profit share program so that based on the number of sales you will earn up to 200% of your money back. If you pledge $750 now, in 6 months you could be running your successful website and earned $1,500 back from Agriya if the sales of the product have been strong.

There are other advantages to pledging your money too because you’ll get to use the early beta releases of the software which means you can establish your website long before any competitors come along and ensure that the features you want are included for no extra cost – assuming you can convince the other investors of course.

$750 is the minimum amount you need to pledge but there is no upper limit, infact if you want to fund the remaining amount because you believe in the project so much then you are free to do so.

Getting a project like this Clickbank clone developed by yourself would cost in the region of $20,000 if you were to get it done properly by a company experienced in developing secure and scalable e-Commerce platforms. Using the power of crowdsourceing you don’t need to pay anywhere near that amount, infact, you have the opportunity to get all your money back and then some.

Agriya Ideas has already funded a large number of projects and investors are already earning back their money every day thanks to Agriya’s marketing machine which ensures that everyone knows about our products. Successful past projects include GrubWithUs clone, Etsy clone, Airbnb clone and our soon to be released Freelancer clone and Thumbtack clone.

If you’ve got any questions or thoughts about this opportunity or want to know how you can get involved, leave a comment below and we’ll try and answer all your questions. Click here to pledge money now.
 

In case you are not aware, SF Platform works a lot like a kickstarter clone where anyone can list a project that they need funded and people can pledge money to get the project started. Often there will be rewards or recognition for people who donated and the more that is donated the higher the individual recognition. Infact, this system is so successful that Agriya has used this part of this software in our popular Agriya Ideas portal where people can pledge money to get products developed.

A clean and stylish layout using reds and yellows for highlighting colours. We love the vertical rectangular boxes to showcase the projects that are available and the yellow header really gives the site a memorable impact.

This purple template has a quirky feel to it with the minimal footer and funky colours but retains a clean layout. It looks like the perfect template for any kind of creative media type crowdfunded website.

If you want your website to make a visual impact then this is the template to choose. With a bold design and gorgeous blue and purple highlighting colours it will leave a lasting impression on everyone who will visit your site.

Blue is the colour! If you like you websites to be big, bright and unmissable then this template is the one for you. It’s got a concise home page with navigational arrows so visitors can explore more projects without having to scroll down.

All the templates are made to order and cost $750. It takes around 2-3 weeks to fully integrate the design due to the number of layouts and pages that need to be integrated.

SF Platform can be used in all kinds of different niches, so far we’ve seen clients build sites to serve the wedding niche, documentary niche, photography niches, charity niches and more. You can make money using this software by charging a small fee to list a project and taking a commission on the total amount that has been pledged.
 

Already many major media sites are saying that Pinterest is sending them more traffic than Twitter and Facebook combined and big brands like Time and Coca Cola are busy trying to figure out how to leverage this site.

If you are looking for a Pinterest clone then you are probably already aware of what it does, but just incase you are not the site basically lets you ‘pin’ interesting images to your profile and share it with others. It’s primarily about visual treats which means that a lot of graphic designers and photographers are getting exposure but Time magazine is generating interest thanks to their back catalog of front covers.

Agriya now funds all its projects through the Agriya Ideas portal and Pinterest has just been moved from the “for voting” category in to the “For Funding” category. Let’s just take a quick look at how the Agriya Ideas portal works…

• Agriya determines how much it costs to develop the software
• You pledge some money
• Other people also pledge some money
• Once the minimum amount has been collected, Agriya freezes the project and starts work on the software
• You decide the direction and features for the software
• You get to use the software first (and get a great first to market advantage)
• You can earn up to 200% of your money back based on sales

Now the Pinterest clone project is open for funding you can get yourself on the ground floor and help determine the direction the project takes, be one of the first people to get their website launched (and gain at least 1-2 months advantage over everyone else) and you have the opportunity to earn up to 200% of your money back based on future sales of the product.

Agriya has already got a great track record of incubating projects in our Ideas portal and then launching them to the world. Our BuySell software which works as a multi-merchant platform (like an Etsy clone) has been flying off the shelves since we launched it last year and our group dining product, GroupWithUs has also seen strong sales with the original investors more than happy with the progress and earning potential.

GroupWithUs is Agriya’s GrubWithUs clone script which lets you run a group dining type website but the software has been designed so that group dining isn’t the only thing you can start offering. GrubWithUs works by contacting restaurant owners and securing a good deal on a set menu and then opening the even to people interested in networking – you can even tailor the meals to suit different interests. The first person who signs up gets a discount and the price steadily rises as more people confirm their desire to attend.

What GrubWithUs has done for eating out and meeting people you can do for any other industry thanks to our GroupWithUs software. We take a look at some of the options available to you and hope that it sets off some sparks of inspiration with the potential that this software has.

1. Theatre Excursions

It doesn’t have to be New York’s Broadway or London’s West End, people still love to go to the theatre and take in some live action drama or show. Provincial theatres up and down the land in every country would love to have their venues packed to the rafters every night but sadly this is not always possible. However, the fact remains that there are probably lots of people that would love to go to the theatre more often but don’t have a network of friends that share the same interest that they do.

Building a website that focuses on getting great deals for shows and plays at the local theatre will connect lots of avid theatre goers who might be quite keen to take advantage of the early bird offers by being the first to buy a ticket for a particular show and they don’t have to worry about going alone because after a few outings many people will be well connected and know each other.

2. Adventure Sports

This is an area ripe for the taking. Imagine you and your friend turn up to a paintballing centre and no one else is there to play, it would be a pretty disappointing experience. If you created a website that listed local adventure sports (remember, GroupWithUs is designed to be local to everyone so they can select the city or town where they want to see available events) companies like paintballing, go-karting, quad-biking, rock climbing etc. then visitors to your website will be safe in the knowledge that if they turn up there will be plenty of people to get to know and have a much better experience.

The business wins because even though they are offering a discount you are guaranteeing a certain number of people coming through the door and your website visitors win because they get good discounts on doing things they already love. The early bird participants can even get a bigger discount so you might end up having people checking your site daily to see what bargains they can get.

3. Introductory / Tester Classes

In every town in every city around the world the local community college offers various types of evening classes for people to expand their repertoire of skills or to help them advance their career. Unfortunately some of the classes can be expensive and people have to commit to a long period of time. This barrier to entry can be removed by GroupWithUs by arranging introduction classes for various courses where the teacher can introduce what is going to be taught and how and the student can make a decision about whether it’s going to be right for them without having to shell out a lot of money.

Normally for a college to arrange this type of event would be a logistical nightmare and they certainly don’t want to be doing introductory classes for just a handful of people. This is where GroupWithUs comes in. You arrange a special price on an introductory class and then people who are interested can get a discount and find out who else will be going so they know they won’t be the only one there.

4. Day Trips For Families

This might be particularly relevant in today’s economy. Imagine the scene: it’s summer time, the kids are at home, they are bored, their friends have all left the state on vacation, they’ve got no one to play with. How about creating an group booking day trip website specifically aimed at families? Talk to attractions in the local area such as theme parks, museums, activity centres, aquariums and more and negotiate a discount if you can bring a certain number of families to their attraction.

Next, use the GroupWithUs software to create the day trip excursions and families can sign up to get a discount. You can even offer the first few families to sign up an additional discount. Since you know the exact numbers that will be attending and everyone has to pay up front you can manage the expenses such as insurance and transport.

These are just four innovative ways that we have thought of to use GroupWithUs, hopefully it has given you a few ideas and inspiration on how you can build your own group booking type website. If you’ve got any ideas let us know in the comments below, or if you’d rather discuss your top secret ideas with a sales rep get in touch with us on this page.

We’re pleased to announce that for our 10th release of Burrow we have completely overhauled the admin area to give a cleaner, more friendly and intuitive backend. You’ll find the new admin area to be completely unrecognizable to the previous versions and the time and effort we have put in to crafting it is thanks to our ongoing efforts to ensure that every part of our products exceeds expectations.

The new admin area is a lot cleaner as you can see in the screenshot below. The emphasis is giving you a brief snapshot of the important information that you need while making the option to dig deeper in to the data much easier and simpler.

Humans love to visualize data because it gives some kind of meaning and representation to what is going on. You might have had 15 orders yesterday and 18 the day before and 14 today but it’s only when this information is plotted on a graph do these numbers start to have some meaning. The Burrow admin area now comes jam packed with graphs and charts to give you a visual representation of what’s going on in your business.

Previously we had all our admin menu options listed down the left hand side of the screen which became a bit too cumbersome as more management pages were added and sometimes it felt like you had to endlessly scroll to find the menu option you wanted. This has all changed in the new Burrow script where all the menu options have been grouped together under eight logical headings. When you roll over a heading it expands out to reveal the advanced management options that are available to you related to that heading.

With each property that’s listed on your Burrow website there is an enormous amount of data that is generated, most of which you don’t actually need to know unless you are administrating a particular property. Now when you load the list of properties you get the information that is most important to you in a quick snapshot but more indepth data is just a click away and the listing will expand out to reveal inside information about the property you have selected.

User management is another area which generates huge amounts of data, most of which isn’t needed on a day to day basis so once again the developers have constructed the member management page in such a way so that you get all the important information you need at a glance like how much money you have made out of them while keeping more detailed information hidden away but can be revealed at a click of a button.

There have also been a number of under the hood changes which you won’t see but will definitely feel. Innovations such as cutting edge caching, use of css sprite images and SASS all serve to speed up the loading and rendering of your Burrow website. Another new feature that has been added recently includes the ability to pay your hosts offline instead of via PayPal as we found many businesses are setting up a website to serve a market that doesn’t have easy access to web based payment solutions and prefer offline methods like cash and cheques. This is now fully supported in the latest version of Burrow.

If you haven’t checked out Burrow for yourself headover to our Airbnb clone script page which explains more about what it does and request an unrestricted demo so you can see for yourself how powerful this software is.