{"id":83,"date":"2018-12-18T19:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrotalk.in\/astrology-blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2022-06-07T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:25:09","slug":"astrotalk-for-online-astrology-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrotalk.com\/astrology-blog\/astrotalk-for-online-astrology-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"How AstroTalk Became The Best Website To Talk To Astrologer And Get The Most Accurate Predictions?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The business world might appear buttoned-down from the outside – but in reality, it’s a lot more interesting than you might realize. Many entrepreneurs are known for their colourful characters, both at work and in personal lives and few just mesmerize you with their journey of starting up. After all, following rules and staying inside the lines doesn’t often make for business success, whether it is establishing a strong and influential presence in the field of astrology or any other field. Here’s the story of Astrotalk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First and foremost, to all those who might be struggling in some way or the other, let me tell you that nothing comes easy in life but if you keep trying, right opportunities will find you, eventually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From being a non-believer in astrology to launching the biggest brand in this field, sharing all the ups and downs that came in his way and how he became a successful entrepreneur. Presenting the journey of Puneet Gupta<\/a>, <\/em>Founder & CEO of <\/em>AstroTalk :<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I often come across this question from my friends in a very astonishing way, \u201cHow come you into Astrology?<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> as I had mocked everyone who ever talked about astrology. However, today I am proud to share my journey with everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2013, I quit my job with Nomura to pursue my dreams but things didn\u2019t go as planned and I struggled for a year and exhausted my savings. In order to make ends meet, I went back to Mumbai and did some odd jobs as I was not getting shortlisted for any technology job interviews, sighting a gap of 1 year. After some networking, an old colleague referred me to BNP Paribas and I got the job at a pay cut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After working there for a year, I got in touch with one of my school friends, who later went to IIT Delhi, and we both planned to start an IT services company. It was time to put down the papers yet again, and I typed the resignation letter with full enthusiasm (that time I didn\u2019t have to look for email templates on google) but I got very anxious before sending it, as the old struggling days started haunting me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I was staring dead at the resignation email, one of my colleagues came over and inquired, \u201cIs everything okay? You look lost.\u201d I showed her my resignation letter and told her how my own negative thoughts are not letting me do what I really wanted to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She looked at me with empathy and said, \u201cI can see your birth chart and tell you what to do as per Astrology. What are your birth details?<\/strong>\u201d and she opened one very badly designed app on her phone to input my details. I was shocked and amused at the same time. I promised myself to hire good UI\/UX designers to develop better apps than that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike seriously? Do you really think I believe in all this? Padhe likhe hoke aap andh vishwas faila rahe ho<\/em>!\u201d I scolded her but I wished I could get some help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She waited for me to complete and demanded, \u201cAre you done? Now tell me your birth details. I don\u2019t care if you believe or not but let me try to help.\u201d I shared the details as I would rather not mess with a senior. But knowing her coding skills, I could totally judge that she would screw up in Astrology as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she was analysing my chart, I waited curiously to know the outcome, the way I had waited for my 10th standard board results. There is something about Astrology, it doesn\u2019t matter whether you believe in it or not, but it fascinates you like nothing else. However, as I didn\u2019t trust her and would never had liked to take a biased decision based on Astrology, so I quickly sent the resignation letter and locked my screen. Meanwhile, she was done with her calculations and it was time for the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are Leo Ascendant and your Sun is exalted\u2026\u201d I interrupted her in between and asked, \u201cI don\u2019t understand all this. Tell me something about the past to make me believe you,\u201d I was such a spoiler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeta, jitna tu bhaagta hai na isse, aage jake utna jaada believe karega<\/strong><\/em> (Dear, as much as you are mocking this today, you will believe in it much more, in future)<\/strong>,\u201d She mocked me this time but after hearing that I was convinced she knew Astrology as good as Database designing, as I would never do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>You don\u2019t choose Astrology, Astrology chooses you\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then she told me many things about my past to make her point including the date of my accident in school days, which was shocking. And once she observed the change in my body language, she stopped telling about the past and came to the main question. She not only predicted the past correctly but was also such a nice observer of behaviour. Oh God! Why the hell was she a MySQL developer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, you can quit your job as the next 2 years are very promising for an IT business as per the placement of Saturn and Rahu,\u201d she smiled as she made the prediction. I am still not sure if that smile was for a positive prediction or for the virtual win over me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust 2 years?,\u201d I exclaimed with a sheepish laugh as I had to pretend that I was not interested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like every other story, this story was also filled with some twist and turns. The twist was that my business partner might leave after 2 years<\/strong> from then and I would face some issues in resuming the business and it might take a year to pivot to a new venture, \u201cBut you will make it\u201d she assured after observing my not-so-good body language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can press the send button,\u201d she finally said something with a real smile as she observed that I wasn\u2019t mocking anymore and had surrendered myself, unlike a Leo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, I served my notice period and came to Noida and started an IT services company named CodeYeti in April 2015. We managed to scale up very quickly to 45 employees, serving about 15-20 clients at a time and clocked a revenue of $0.5 million in the first year itself. We started working for big enterprises like Yamaha, GreenPly along with startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything was going well until my partner told me that he is not getting a kick from the services business and wanted to do a tech product. We spent the next 6 months on 2 products but ended up wasting capital as nothing seemed to work and he finally quit in March 2017<\/strong> to do something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that reminded me about the prediction, my ex-colleague had made about my partner\u2019s exit. I called her after a gap of 2 years (Let\u2019s just assume that I was busy and was not bad at keeping in touch) and told her about the prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could sense the happiness in her voice as her prediction came true but she showed concern as it was a loss for me. To my surprise, she knew everything about CodeYeti as she followed our social media channels and congratulated me for what we had achieved in such a short duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you want me to check your chart again?\u201d she inquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I paused for a moment and proposed an idea, \u201cHow about I start a product in the field of Astrology and I become your first customer?\u201d She halted for a few seconds and said, \u201cHmmm\u2026I had quit my job 4 months back for some personal reasons, and I can take out some time to work with you but I won\u2019t be very active, so you will have to find more astrologers. I can connect you with a few in my network\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes Yes !! You can work whenever you have time and you can interview and train other astrologers and we will keep hiring. You can become their mentor and take care of the department of Astrologers\u201d, I said in excitement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHmm…So, when are we going live<\/strong>?\u201d she straight away asked for a deadline, the way she did at BNP. Some people never change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then, there was the ultimate turn – I worked on developing the product and launched an MVP (minimum viable product) of AstroTalk within a month and assigned a dedicated technology & operations team to it. I called her as a customer and asked, \u201cHow would AstroTalk do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Current stats:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All time users<\/strong>: 3-Crore+ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No of Astrologers<\/strong>: 4000+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Transactions: <\/strong>22,000+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeat Rate<\/strong>: 27+ (Higher than Zomato\/Swiggy) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rating<\/strong>: 4.9\/5.0 (Highest in this industry)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily revenue:<\/strong> 50-Lakh\/day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within 5 years of launch, we have changed the way people interact with Astrologers and gave 20+ years old companies a run for their money. There were 2 basic fundamental problems with companies in this industry, which we could fix very precisely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n