• Caring for Parents who are in Hometowns

    One of the defining characteristic of emerging markets is that the upcoming generation has or is moving out of their native homes into cities. In hopes of a better future, the children are moving to cities or abroad to make their lives. How do we ensure that our parents...

  • Managing your kitchen

    Making food involves lot of ingredients, Some of them are frequently used and some are not, Each one has an expiry date and edible products often come in a plastic packing which is then stored in containers after buying, so there is no way of knowing the expiry date...

  • Tracking Refunds and Rebates

    You purchase something online and either a gateway promises you that you get 10- 15% off on cashback. Likewise there are cases when the payment gateway fails but the money is deducted and they promise that it will be in your account in 3-7 working days. I can’t think...

  • Tracking warranty for purchases

    One problem I face a lot is tracking warranty/guarantee for purchases. I usually snap a pic onto evernote or some such app and hope to find it at a future point. And many places still require copy of bill to claim warranty. This is quite painful and maybe easily...

  • Improving the life of Deaf People

    Deaf people have a very hard time in India. They are not granted licenses because they cant hear people who honk from behind and hence are forced to take public transport to get around (imagine that!) - which puts them in a situation where they are often late to...

  • Wedding Planning in Modern India

    Weddings are rather stressful, it is the time when one tries to bridge the generation gap and fails miserably at it. Between the traditions that the parents want to keep and the “fun” and memorable moments that the couple want, there is always a fair bit of friction going...

  • Teaching Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurship is all the rage these days. However a lot of those who startup don’t have all basics covered when it comes to starting or running a business. An MBA is usually more on the management side, but simple things as attitude, hiring, finance, cashflow management etc are skills...

  • Utilizing the Excess Capacity in Engineering Colleges

    In Tamil Nadu, Anna University started the counselling on July 1 with 1,54,238 students applying for 2.1 lakh government quota seats. The university has called 1,35,703 students so far for counselling of whom 93,917 got admitted to various colleges, 41,282 abstained from counselling and 504 attended but did not...

  • Learning to play music is painfully hard

    If you are one of those folks who regret not sticking to those piano classes when you were a kid, well join the club. Music today is very hard. While instruments have evolved, and the medium of content has changed (in person, to perhaps youtube videos), not much has...

  • Getting people to be Punctual

    Often when friends decide to do any activity in a group say meet for going for a run or meet for dinner etc, the normal thing that happens is someone calls everyone and alerts them. If there was an app that can add trusted friends (mutual) and setup alarms...

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