In the summer of 2011, a bunch of Chennai-based engineering students came up with a quirky idea for a web service. They planned to scan the ‘class notes' of all department toppers and put them up online so that they would become a common resource.
“Most students start studying only a day before the exam,” says V. Maheshwar, a third-year Electronics Engineering student and co-founder of ‘Benchmate.' “We wasted a lot of time just trying to find the right notes.”
The idea might sound wicked, but initially that is all they had — an idea. The turning point came when Maheswar attended a weekend hackathon organised by The Startup Centre, the mother of all start-ups, literally.........Read More
Source: The Hindu
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