Mall Shopping Made Easy

ADNAN CONTRACTOR, one of the partners at SquareClues, tells us about the mobile app MALLBUZZ they have created, which can help people in buying decisions while shopping at malls!

- Nishad Shinde

Tell us a little about yourself…

We are the brother-sister duo, Adnan Contractor and Maria Katabjiwala. Both of us are Software Engineers having over 20 years of experience between us. The extensive experience of working in the software industry has turned us into hardcore analytical thinkers and highly focused individuals. One thing that defines us is our love for building practically useful products. The secret to creating such products is a great user-centric design, and that is what we focus on.

Tell us more about your venture. How did you think of the idea?

SquareClues is a young and dynamic organisation based in Pune, founded in 2016, with an aim to reduce the gap between shoppers and retail brands. There are a lot of information discovery tools, which are already available in the market, but this information is not streamlined. So, it becomes difficult for a person to take a decision based on scattered information. So there is a big need for a solution that helps to address the specific needs of people, by connecting them to their favourite brands. We ourselves faced this problem and went looking for a solution, but didn’t find any satisfactory answer. So, we thought, why not build one? ‘MallBuzz’ is a mobile app that gives users information about latest offers and events in malls. It also helps them easily locate brand stores in malls.

To start a company, there is always an inspiration behind it. So what inspired you to start SquareClues?