QBell: Making Doorbells Cool Again

Native QR reading features in smartphones have opened many opportunities to connect physical and digital communication. The technology has been reborn.

At the same time, online shopping and home delivery have exploded. Buying nearly any product online has become not just easier than physically but often the only choice for many. Improved online buying has strongly affected delivery. Despite many technologies adopted to improve it, the bottleneck remains the front door. Meeting at the front door breaks schedules and takes time for both the buyer and the delivery service.

„We ourselves experienced first hand that this is a real pain for home delivery services as at the time we ran an online coffee shop. One day , we connected the dots – why can‘t there be a virtual doorbell instead of a traditional one? And now we have QBell. A visitor just needs to scan the QR code at the door, the resident receives a message in their QBell app, and both can chat just like if they were standing on the opposite sides of the front door – instantly and safely.“, explains Daniel Houston, CEO at QBell.

When you catch a trend wave you can‘t lose pace. The same applies for QBell – the startup born in Liverpool, UK. Started 12 months ago QBell has already received more than 5000 signups for its upcoming Pilot launch. The promised V1 launch is coming soon, and the floor in the office is getting hot.

When a team is under time pressure, nothing is more important than taking full control of the plan. On the other hand, startups diving into unexplored areas must be agile and adapt to any changes or new findings quickly. Aqua Zumaraite, Head of marketing at QBell, knew that to be both agile and in control of a great plan, you must have a proper project management tool.

„First, we tried using Monday.com for a couple of months. We noticed that it takes too long for us to manage work data within the system itself, and it gets quite messy when the scope increases. Besides, we missed features like task dependencies in our chosen plan.“Aqua shares about the beginning of their journey. This led to a decision to look for an efficient and easy-to-use work management tool. The next choice was Teamhood.

„We tried Teamhood for a week, and we loved it. The tool makes it easy to structure work items into the boards. Now it only takes 5 minutes to check the boards once a day – and the status of the project, as well as things to be done, are clear to everyone. We work at a breakneck pace now, and changes happen in the plan almost weekly. Therefore, the dependencies feature is significant. It takes minutes to apply the latest changes to the plan and we can see how they will impact the further stages as well as the whole project.“, says Aqua Zumaraite.

Last but not least, Aqua and the team have also found that Teamhood Kanban boards can be applied for other purposes, such as customer management. Postponing CRM adoption might save time and resources needed for early business growth.

Let‘s see if Teamhood becomes the one tool for all work management at QBell and how many electric bells will be replaced by QBells before the end of the year.