Bimal Mahajan came to India from Nepal to study engineering and went
on to start his own venture, 11beep. After completing engineering from
Visvesvaraya Technological University, he worked in Infosys for three
years before diving into the startup world. He went on to co-found two
startups, one of them failed and the other took him to Italy for an
accelerator program– Techpeaks. It was here that he came up with the
idea for 11beep.
“While taking a shower, I was thinking about the competitive analysis
I had done for our startup. While doing so, I read through all the
posts of our competition, I collected all their twitter and Facebook
posts in an excel sheet and analyzed,” says Bimal. And this is what gave
him the idea for taking — what
Snapchat
had done to messaging — to a social network. And thus was born the idea
of a social network on mobile that doesn’t keep history. On the
personal front, his belief in the idea was reiterated when an incident
really shocked him. “I am getting married soon but the parents of my
fiancรฉe wanted to know my past by going through my social network
history!” shares Bimal.
Leaving the really interesting anecdote aside, Bimal has worked on
the prototype and has launched a private beta. In this 11beep journey,
Bimal is joined by Vivek Bhusal, who is the CTO. Vivek has a bachelors
degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Tribhuvan
University, Nepal, and has had experience building mobile applications.
Talking about the name, Bimal says, “In TV, when something is
censored, the words are beeped but you can understand everything.
Similarly, with 11Beep you can express anything and your audience will
know what you are saying but there won’t be a digital trail as it gets
deleted automatically.” The user can select a time when the post will
get deleted from history on 11beep. This is a rather ambitious effort to
build a social network and is riding
the Snapchat valuation
wave but the idea is interesting. The current version looks pretty
basic and the first impression points towards the need for a better UI
but the thought makes the product worth trying out.
You can sign up for a private beta:
11beep
Source:
http://yourstory.com/2014/01/11beep/
