ISBX built and helped launch two on-demand app services: Pikkup and Soothe

June 6, 2015
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June 6, 2015

Bethalyn Staples

Sum­mer is com­ing. That means yard sales and vaca­tions! ISBX recent­ly com­plet­ed two apps that can help you take advan­tage of both. Say hel­lo to Pikkup and Soothe. These apps sim­pli­fy the process of book­ing a mover and stream­line sched­ul­ing a mas­sage to make the most of your free time. We’ve illus­trat­ed the details of each app below.
Pikkup: on-demand moving and hauling company
What hap­pens when you’re on the oth­er side of town and find the PERFECT piece of fur­ni­ture at a garage sale but have no way of trans­port­ing it your­self? Now you can call Pikkup!
Pikkup is a new, on-demand, peer-to-peer mov­ing ser­vice that con­nects truck dri­vers with peo­ple who need to trans­port large (or lots of) parcels in Los Ange­les. Use your iPhone to sched­ule a move using back­ground-checked and insured dri­vers. The inter­ac­tive cal­en­dar makes request­ing an appoint­ment easy! Match the size of your load with the best dri­ver by tak­ing a pic­ture of your goods with the in-app cam­era fea­ture. Get pric­ing esti­mates for each avail­able vehi­cle and find the best truck for the job. Ease anx­i­ety by uti­liz­ing the GPS feed which shows routes and ETAs.
CEO and Founder, Sam Baum­garten came up with the idea, “When I had to move my sister’s couch using only her Prius, I saw a huge gap in today’s on-demand ser­vice mar­ket­place.” Baum­garten real­ized, “I could order an on-site mas­sage in 30 min­utes, have my dry-clean­ing picked up and returned in a mat­ter of hours and even get a pri­vate ride in min­utes, but I couldn’t get my sofa from Mal­ibu to Echo Park. Pikkup address­es these hard­ships head-on to alle­vi­ate them. It is 2015, after all.”
We agree. Speak­ing of order­ing a mas­sage, have you tried the recent­ly improved Soothe app?
Soothe: on-demand massage company
With a few clicks on the Soothe app, you can sched­ule a house-call mas­sage to arrive at your loca­tion in about an hour! Soothe ther­a­pists are all licensed, back­ground-checked, and thor­ough­ly vet­ted. They are avail­able 7 days a week, 9am to mid­night, INCLUDING HOLIDAYS! Prices are great, start­ing at just $99 for 60 min­utes. Want a cou­ples mas­sage? They do that too! The app makes it easy to choose Deep Tis­sue, Swedish, or Sports mas­sage. No need to wor­ry about call­ing a spa, hop­ing for a slot, hunt­ing for park­ing, and cross­ing your fin­gers for a good LMT. The Soothe app makes book­ing a mas­sage com­plete­ly stress-free by bring a high­ly skilled mas­sage ther­a­pist to your doorstep.
CEO and Founder, Mer­lin Kauff­man said, “As I began talk­ing with mas­sage ther­a­pists, they kept telling me the same thing over and over again, ‘The spa I’m work­ing at is pay­ing me very lit­tle.’ It turns out that spas that charge $120+ for mas­sages are usu­al­ly only pay­ing $35 to their ther­a­pists. I decid­ed to remove the spa from the sit­u­a­tion and reverse the equa­tion by empow­er­ing skilled mas­sage ther­a­pists to earn extra income and make a bet­ter life for them­selves. From this idea, I cre­at­ed Soothe, an online and mobile app that con­nects peo­ple who want to book same-day in-home mas­sages with the best hand-picked mas­sage therapists.”
Cur­rent­ly, Soothe is serv­ing Los Ange­les, Orange Coun­ty, San Fran­cis­co, SF East Bay, Sil­i­con Val­ley (from Burlingame to San Jose), Mia­mi, San Diego, Phoenix, Scotts­dale and Austin. They have plans to expand to all major cities in the U.S. and Cana­da. We can see your shoul­ders relax­ing already.
Check Out The Soothe App From The iTunes App Store At: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id811054908?mt=8
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