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Hi there,
Just wanted to check with people living in a housing development in Dwarka Expressway. We know that this area has attracted many people from the point of view of investment opportunities in real estate. But my question is from someone who has been living there and experienced the life of the area during all circumstances. We know that the monsoon rains wreaks havoc in many parts of Gurgaon year after year. There seems to be no sign of any improvement in water logging in Gurgaon from the authorities. I have been advised to be careful about property buying in and moving to Dwarka Expressway area where reputable builders have taken advantage of property boom in the market recently. My concern is about the infrastructure of Dwarka Expressway in view of Haryana government’s inability to provide good infrastructure to Gurgaon and perhaps Dwarka Expressway is not going to be any different . If someone has been planning to move to live there permanently is it really worth exploring the options?

Did you know the constructions materials are 50-60% of the cost of any construction in project in India. Cement, steel, unorganized materials like aggregates, sand, bricks, all of it. Today, most of it still gets bought over phone calls, verbal rates, cash transactions and hand-written challans passed through 3-4 middlemen. Less than 1% of this whole thing happens online. Each middleman takes a cut, adds a day of delay, and has zero reason to tell the builder the real price. Think about that. I've seen two contractors in the same locality pay very different rates for the same material on the same day, and neither of them knew.

So the easy pitch is "Amazon of construction materials," and yeah I said it in the title to get you to click. But the boring part is the real product: we put the entire paper trail of an order in one place, from the request for a quote to the proforma, the purchase order, the delivery challan, the GST tax invoice, credit financing, payment, and closure.

Everyone else led with a shiny app and assumed suppliers would show up, but this industry runs on business flow, trust, and credit, not tech.

We spent about 13+ years in construction supply in Eastern India (Jharkhand & Bihar) via offline channel. The supplier & Contractor relationships already exist. That is 13 plus years of "pick up the phone and it gets done". We are digitizing a network that already trusts us and adding what was always missing, real price discovery, GST compliance, tracked delivery, and financing so a credit crunch doesn't kill a project mid-way. We went to Eastern India first on purpose, and everyone says that's wrong because "the market is small," but it's ignored to the point as India climbs toward the 3rd largest economy. The hardest part by far is behaviour change, so we run a physical-hybrid model with feet-on-the-ground to build the trust and digital habit slowly.

So, a well-funded competitor could decide the East is worth it and outspend us tomorrow. Our whole thesis rests on a trust network that is genuinely hard to scale past the people We personally know, and getting a supplier off his diary and non-smartphone onto a platform is slow, grinding work. We're betting that trust and being local beats capital in this specific market, and we might be wrong.

So tell me where this falls apart. What am I not seeing? The company's brand is called ConstroMat if you want to look.

Wishing everyone A very Happy 80th Independence Day !

I see rampant illegal construction everywhere, footpaths and roads taken over by Redhi’s/smoke shops. Illegal construction and encroachment is increasing with daily uneducated people from different states coming and grabbing land, and then with no education they start illegal redhi’s. Do you think in next 5 years, whole Delhi will look like a slum?