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India has payment apps which are going the way of super apps by allowing you to 1. Make p2p payments 2. Pay utility bills 3. Pay credit card charges 4. Buy
by Sai_ 3y ago
India has payment apps which are going the way of super apps by allowing you to
1. Make p2p payments
2. Pay utility bills
3. Pay credit card charges
4. Buy insurance
5. Get loans
6. Make charitable donations
7. Book travel tickets
8. Find nearby stores, store timings, get directions, and see their ratings
9. Send and receive short messages
Unless “we” and “elsewhere” doesn’t include India, I’d say superapps are more common than you think.
- madeofpalk 3y agoMaybe I don't know what an 'everything' app is, but this just sounds like a banking app to me (with the exception of the last 'feature').
- Sai_ 3y agoWhen the App Store was launched, most apps had a single backend they connected to. I’m thinking of say the FB app or the Google maps app which only talked to Fb and Google respectively. These payment apps integrate with a much wider arrays of backends from multiple providers and allow you perform many more unique use cases. E.g., making charitable donations and paying an insurance premium are unrelated but the Indian payment app I’m thinking of enables it. This brings it closer to being an “everything” app.
- flexagoon 3y agoWe also have banking superapps in Russia - and even more. I still wouldn't say that's an "everything app", all of those features are related to payments and they can be in a banking app.
- Sateeshm 3y agoPayTM? Just because an app has all these features doesn't mean people actually use all the features.