Hyderabad: After finding out through a survey that people spent around 30 minutes just planning their evenings, Indian School of Business students, Rishabh Agarwal and Slokarth Dash, decided to make an app Here Is My Plan that helps one plan evenings or outings in less than two minutes. And in order to validate their idea, they participated in the Start-up Weekend Battle at ISB recently, which had 20 shortlisted teams design and present the prototype of their concepts over two days. And the team of five ended up not just being the best overall winners but scooped up two more awards — People’s Favourite and The Best Creative Entrepreneurs.
Rishabh says, “At the event, we met freelance techies, Teja, Avinash and Rajesh, who helped us make the prototype in 48 hours. The app offers multiple options like going for a movie, dinner or a play and you can also customise the app”.
He adds that as a team it was crucial to be well- versed with the responsibilities each member had, in order to execute the project in time. “Fortunately, the critical details were clear in our heads but since we had no known competitor in the market offering the same kind of facilities, it was important to figure out what works and what doesn’t. More so because we were competing with the best creative and technical minds around,” he adds.
By winning this competition, the team has got the much-needed confirmation of its idea, and is now working on launching the final app in the market.
