10 Best At-Your-Service Apps For An On-Tap Happier Life

Live like a king with on-demand service apps that await your every command.

Gone are the days of picking up the phone to order what you need. Banished to the annals of history are the weeks spent waiting for a workman to have a slot free in his diary to fix your faulty plumbing. The on-tap service economy has arrived €“ and it's about to change the way you live. Offering the power of flexibility whilst cutting the fixed overheads associated with traditional service-based businesses, everyone from handymen to couriers, beauticians to bakers can benefit from the consumer-focused approach of on-demand apps. Sure, it can take away the "I know a guy" niceness of personal referrals and oust the significance of experience in favour of per-ride reviews €“ just look at Uber in London €“ but these always-there apps put service provision at your fingertips in a way never before possible. Think the best you can do is hail a cab from the comfort of your sofa? Think again. Here are ten of the best on-demand apps for instant life improvement.

Honourable Mention: Borrow My Doggy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwmofIWngnw Pining for a pooch but just too busy to adopt one of your own? Try borrowing one. No, don't go pinching a pug from the park €“ give BorrowMyDoggy a whirl, instead. Sure, it's not quite a service app so much as a mutually beneficial exchange of canine pals, but it's a godsend for hound-owning holidaymakers and those after a short-term fluffy friend alike. Flying faraway without your beloved Buster? Forget the faff of finding someone responsible enough to take care of your four-legged companion €“ BMD has a vetted (sorry) profile-based system for matching your needs with would-be borrowers. It's as easy as arranging a meet and greet and leaving your dog with a trusted dog lover who's bound to be happy housing your hound. The Uber of pup-sitting, BorrowMyDoggy is a properly pawfect 21st Century subscription-based solution to otherwise expensive dog supervision.
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