How It Works

At SharingDard.com, users can register an anonymous account for free just by inputting their e-mail ID and date of birth. The website provides 7 sections and users can choose respective sections to put their life stories. These sections include Jobs, Career, Family Issues, Love and Relationship trauma, Social Taboos, Matrimony Search, I Feel Lonely and Other (for miscellaneous posts). Outside visitors who can read posts posted by users and if they wish to post their views, suggestions and encouragement, they need to register as well. The website also provides loads of language options.

Sharingsard.com rose to fame in a short period of time through traction and stickiness. It has about 39406 registered users globally and according to Sumant, the website get visitors from around 80 plus countries. Coming to the website’s traffic statistics, On October 15, it has Alexa ranking in India at 22,811 while its Alexa global ranking was 192,659. And on an average, each visitor spends around 15 minutes on the site.

The startup venture is eyeing the mental health and wellness space as part of its advertisement revenue and currently, its business model includes a pre-paid tele-counseling service called ‘yourcandidfriend’ which is 24x7 service conducted by 16 trained professionals set-up for mainly adolescents. As a part of future investment, the company has plans to come up with web counseling, targeting the NRI segment and is also on a look out to avail funding from angel investors.

But the biggest challenge lies in positioning the business in the Indian context. The mind-set of individuals is such that many prefer to live in denial, often shelving the emotional burdens they are going through on daily basis. SharingDard is indeed a bold concept and has high ambitions to bring about a change through closure and emotional stability for many individuals through like-minded encouragement and optimism.

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