This app aims to replace your domestic help, but needs to clean its own house first.

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There’s a new app in town that promises a lot. Through it, you’re supposedly able to order cleaning, cooking, babysitting, pet sitting, and elder care services.

Basically, it wants to replace your domestic help. Agent Bong, from Hong Kong, is now officially available on iOS and Android in Singapore.

The app, however, falls apart quickly, and my experience tested my patience.

White space galore.

The SMS verification took forever on my Android phone (maybe a temporary glitch), but worked fine on my iPhone.

Two options were available in Singapore when I posted a job: spring cleaning and domestic help.

My immediate thoughts: where are the cooking and child care services, which I was told by a company rep are available in Singapore? And how’s spring cleaning different from the basic cleaning service?

The app was shy about that information, which was hidden in a link that appeared only after I posted basic details about the job.

I was puzzled by the options. Yes, cooking was there. As were many others. But no pet sitting, child care, or elder care.

I can go on an extended rant about the app, but I’ll be wasting wordcount eviscerating something that still needs lots of work.