Sick of arguing over who does the dishes and who’s supposed to go on the weekly grocery run?
Former Singapore residents Etienne Do and Beatriz are about to launch an app that’ll set the chores straight, making for happier couples.
Dish Out is a new task-sharing mobile application that converts chores part of the daily routine such as walking the dog and changing the bulb into a game for you and your partner to play — it’s fun and initiates healthy competition.
Said Etienne to the Vulcan Post, “as we’ve been living abroad for so many years, moving house, setting up new accounts, getting new jobs, new friends, travelling, we saw the need and benefits of having a shared todo list to keep moving forward and doing new things,” Etienne shared with Vulcan Post.
The duo lived Singapore for about three years, working in the online advertising and corporate event industries respectively, and recently moved to Thailand because it’s more affordable to live in, allowing them to dedicate more budget to their venture.
Would the app work? Etienne sounded confident, and told Vulcan Post that the app is meant for busy couples.
“A survey we ran showed that couples in two- to six-year relationships are probably the ones that would benefit from Dish Out the most. Typically, think of couples that are moving together for the first time: young working executives, newlyweds, et cetera. Now, all the plans and chores have to be decided and executed together.”
Etienne added that at the beginning, couples would tend to maintain a mental points score to keep track on who’s doing what in the house and to keep it fair. However, it is easy to lose track and the consequences can be annoying — more expensive flights tickets, last minute shopping, procrastination, cancelled plans, outstanding bills, et cetera.
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Etienne had first-hand experience in this, when he had to change a broken kitchen bulb.
“What happened is that we spent one month without light in the kitchen as I slacked quite a lot on this one. She kept on reminding me until we had this idea of an app where she could make sure I would do it.”
Dish Out is meant to extend that ‘ability’ to other couples, as it encourages couples to delegate and keep track of common chores. Couples can use Dish Out to create, assign, manage and complete chores. Other than that, there will be a shared calendar as well as an achievements page on the app, which is powered by a system of points. Upon completion of tasks, couples will be able to thank each other by sending virtual gifts in through an in-app purchase catalogue.
We can’t help but ask, are there similar apps meant for couple apps out there? We have heard about couple apps such as Between and LoveByte, which is like a private app for couples where they can chat with one another and share common memories and photos on the app with one another.
But a task or chore manager for couples? Is there a need for this?
Etienne believes so. He observed that various couple apps are focusing on “getting couples closer”, and Dish Out wants to take a different approach of “bridging the gap between the mobile world and real life”, adding gamification elements to provide an effective and playful task-sharing application for busy couples.
Would you use it? Maybe the team should focus their marketing more on users outside of Thailand, because there seems to be a lot of singles in Thailand.
Original story by: Vulcan Post
