A Pune-based startup, SMINQ, has launched what is arguably the world's first community-driven, real-time update-providing app that helps to broadcast live information from any corner of the earth. The platform also called SMINQ, lets users broadcast text, photos and even 15-second video clips as they happen, from where they happen. The company is responsible for curating content and ensuring that no fake content creeps in, by verifying the location of each post. And since all content expires 24 hours after it was posted, the feed remains up-to-date at all times.
"Real-time information of what is happening now at the place you want to go to, is a critical piece of information that is missing on the Internet”, says SMINQ CEO and co-founder Shachin Bharadwaj, " How crowded is my gym? What is the most happening place tonight? We live in the 'now' -- and now, we have the ability to record it."
With co-founders Sheldon D’Souza and Santhosh Nagarajan, Shachin first created SMINQ as a useful tool for some Pune hospitals... allowing patients to get real-time updates that reduced their waiting time to see a doctor. The name is an acronym for See Me In No Queue! The app exploded --to embrace some 150 clinics across four cities -- and then the wider potential as a wide-spectrum real-time update tool, hit the creators. The free app called "Sminq World's Places. Live Now" can be downloaded for Android devices at Google Play.
—IndiaTechOnline
