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21501. AskSarkar: how this Made in India app by Bengaluru-based CoRover is disrupting the AI chatbot segment in India
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- Bengaluru-based conversational AI startup CoRover’s chatbot AskSarkar app leads users to official government websites and resolves their queries on government services via text, audio, or video. This Made in India app is among the winners of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- CoRover's AskSarkar app received special mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Mann ki Baat broadcast to the nation on Sunday, during which PM Modi recognised the disruptive innovations taking place in India.
- CoRover itself was founded in 2016 by Ankush Sabharwal along with Rahul Ranjan, Manav Gandotra, and Kunal Bhakhri.
21502. StepSetGo app: PM Modi praises the platform making fitness fun by rewarding every step users take
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- To incentivise people to work out and make fitness a daily habit, childhood friends Misaal Turakhia(28), Abhay Pai (27), and Shivjeet Ghatge (28) started Mumbai-based startup and fitness app StepSetGo in January 2019.
- StepSetGo app, a winner in the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge, aims to get people out of the workout rut by incentivising the process of walking. PM Modi recognised the fitness app by the Mumbai-based startup in his Mann ki Baat address.
- Fitness app StepSetGo is a fitness app that maintains records of how much a user has walked and motivates users to stay fit, PM Modi noted in his Mann ki Baat address.
21503. How 2 former Unacademy colleagues launched an e-sports streaming platform for millennials
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- Bengaluru-based Rheo, an online e-sports streaming and community platform, was founded in 2019 with the aim of enabling gamers in India to live stream games from mobile phones and create live gaming streams in vernacular languages.
- Its goal is to bring gaming into the same league as that of cricket and Bollywood in India.
- Rheo provides live streaming gaming videos and engagement with streamers. It also lets users get access to exclusive tournaments and e-sports events hosted and participated by top gamers in India and stream one’s favourite games from PC, Xbox One or any Android smartphone.
21504. MemeChat: An app that helps meme creators get paid by brands for their creativity
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- Started by two 22-year-olds, MemeChat is a space for creators, users and social media influencers to cash in on the meme-making phenomenon and was one of the winners of AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- The duo from SRM University graduated in Computer Science in 2020 and have been developers since the age of 15. They met each other when they were studying in Delhi Public School (Gurugram), and bonded over their mutual interest in software and technology.
- The users can create memes using paid templates, and get paid upon their approval. As another option, users can earn making memes in the requested category and get paid by brands.
21505. How this Hyderabad startup went from skilling youths to delivering e-learning to schools
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- After quitting Motorola in 2008, Ananth set up Focus Ventures, which backed Hyderabad-based SkillPro, a social enterprise that aims to skill one million underprivileged youth. He took over as the chairman of SkillPro in 2013. Soon after, as the Skill India Mission took off, SkillPro transitioned from offline skill training to an e-learning solution. In eight years, it has impacted over 300,000 youth across rural and urban areas and placed them in jobs. But, there was a pain point.
- Hyderabad startup SkillPro launched mPowerO to tap into the rising demand for e-learning solutions and learning management systems during the pandemic.
- With the lockdown on educational institutions unlikely to get over anytime soon, the thrust on e-learning and online classrooms is at an all-time high. SkillPro rolled out mPowerO in May to tap into this lockdown-induced market demand.
21506. WCC2: the Made in India 3D cricket game wooing the world
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- World Cricket Championship 2 (popularly known as WCC2), a flagship cricket simulation game, became the people’s choice winner in gaming in PM Modi’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge. It garnered 74 percent of popular votes in the category, and secured the third position in the jury round.
- Rajendran PR,Founder and CEO, Nextwave Multimedia, said, “Some years ago, an investor told me ‘there’s no reason for a game development company to exist in India’. Now, when I hear the Prime Minister saying build games and go global, you know the world has changed.
- The Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge is a positive reinforcement for a sector that requires multiple skills. It is more difficult to build a game than most other software. The government push brings focus to the sector and creates an overall positive environment.”
21507. ScarFall: Made-in-India gaming app aims to level the playing field for Aatmanirbhar Bharat
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- Enter ScarFall: The Royale Combat, an online and offline action survival game that emerged as one of the top Made-in-India apps in the gaming category in the recent AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- Developed and published by Surat-based XSQUADS Tech, ScarFall was launched in October 2019. Since then, the game – available on Android and iOS - has surpassed one million monthly active users (MAUs).
- Jamish Kumar Lakhani, Founder and CEO of XSUADS Tech, says his idea to create a Made-in-India gaming app that competes with the likes of Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, and PUBG was in line with the Prime Minister Modi's recent clarion call for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
21508. YourQuote: an app where anyone can tell a story or pen a poem
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- Founded by IIT Delhi alumni and neighbours Harsh Snehanshu and Ashish Singh, YourQuote is a creative writing app for writers to turn their text into art. The startup recently won Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- Moreover, from his personal experiences, YourQuote co-founders Harsh found that even though there were blogging platforms that allowed people to publish whatever they wanted, they were mostly not smartphone-friendly, and that was a hindrance because the world, then, was at the precipice of smartphones taking over daily functions from the laptop.
- “PayNearby app has over 25 services listed on it, and we’re developing a one-stop-shop model to ensure that all individuals and organisations can access financial services within their target localities,” Anand adds.
21509. पेट्रोल पंप पर काम करते हैं पिता, बेटे को IAS बनाने के लिए बेच दिया था घर
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- इंदौर में रहने वाले प्रदीप सिंह ने यूपीएससी की परीक्षा में 26वां स्थान हासिल किया है। प्रदीप अभी इनकम टैक्स में असिस्टेंट कमिश्नर के तौर पर कार्यरत है।
- दीप सिंह को इस मुकाम तक पहुंचाने के लिए उनके पिता सब कुछ कुर्बान कर दिया था।पिछले साल प्रदीप के पिता ने बेटे की सफलता पर कहा था कि मैंने इसकी पढ़ाई के लिए घर तक बेच दिया था
- प्रदीप के पिता इंदौर स्थित एक पेट्रोल पंप पर काम करते हैं।
21510. 50M users, 10M downloads: Hello English’s journey to becoming one of India’s most popular English learning apps
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- Started by a husband-wife duo, Hello English is on a mission to enable people across the globe to learn the English language as a skill, and is one of the winners of the government's AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
- “You cannot expect your driver to learn this language from a Cambridge book. Hello English thus aims to empower people with this skill irrespective of their age group, language, and geography,” says Pranshu Patni, Co-founder of Hello English, in an exclusive interaction with
- “So that's when, in 2014, we rebranded and launched Hello English as a mobile app. And it took off really, really quickly. Within the first couple of weeks, we had 100,000 downloads and even reached the number one spot in the education category,” she reminisces.