Kyiv resident Petro Prysedko founded the startup «Yaikos», which offers its users virtual rental of real chickens and a subscription to the eggs they lay.
Kyiv resident Petro Prysedko founded the startup «Yaikos», which offers its users virtual rental of real chickens and a subscription to the eggs they lay.
According to KP.ua, 20 laying hens live in «luxury» conditions, and Petro designed and built the chicken house himself on land belonging to his family.
«My chickens are my business partners, so they have appropriate living conditions,» the publication quotes Petro Prysedko.
Petra’s service allows you to «rent» a chicken for a certain period of time, considering yourself its temporary owner, or to subscribe to chicken eggs.
«Everything is simple and clear: you choose one or another chicken, pay 1,000 UAH every month, and in return you receive two dozen eggs every month. The temporary owner of the chicken also receives a certificate of ownership and an aristocratic egg title. The next title is assigned every 3 months of owning the chicken,» Petro Prysedko tells the publication.
Another rental option, he said, is a gift certificate, which can be considered an interesting and unusual gift.
«A person who has such a certificate is considered a temporary owner of a chicken for 1 or 3 months. As for the subscription for chicken eggs, it works according to the same scheme as renting a chicken. For a certain amount, which the customer pays once a month, we send him 10, 20 or 30 fresh chicken eggs,» explains the founder of the startup.
Prysedko compares this to the popular subscription business model that many digital services like Netflix have introduced.
The most interesting thing is that Petro presented his own project during the entrepreneurship grant program from the Projector Foundation, and received a grant of $5,000 for the project.
The publication clarifies that a dozen eggs from «Yaikos» cost 370 UAH (test set), and the subscription for eggs is 350 UAH per month (ten), 650 UAH (two dozen) and 900 UAH (three dozen).
Despite the fact that Petro calls this startup simply his hobby, all of Yaikos' chickens are currently rented.
Petro Prysedko himself, as the publication writes, is engaged in the development of IT products at DTEK.
As dev.ua previously wrote, the HEFT startup has found a way to monitor the health and fertility of cows 24/7, and the giants of the livestock industry are already interested in the solution.
