Barely adults, the youngest mobile application programmers in India, and two of the youngest in the world, brothers Shravan Kumaran (15) and Sanjay Kumaran (14), have created applications inspired by real life incidents. The students from Chennai have developed around 11 applications that are currently available in Apple store, Google's Android play store and Windows store.
President and co-founder of GQ Dimensions, Shravan said, "Our father taught us the basics; gradually, we started learning Qbasic, animation and programming apps among other. Most of our applications have got mazimum ratings and all the apps have over 1 lakh downloads." Some of their famous apps include Catch Me Cop, Alphabet Board, Prayer Planet, Colour Palette and Emergency Booth. They also designed a virtual reality device called GoVR. "We always wanted a virtual reality device but whatever was available in the market was expensive, and we wanted a cheaper version. We have built an alpha version of the device and software and it is priced at Rs 799 unlike the rest which are around Rs 50,000," Sanjay said.
"We have travelled a lot," recalls Sanjay. "Some of the best moments of our lives were when we went to Korea and addressed over 2,000 people, and also when we got a personal mail from late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam after he saw our website." . The brothers even hold the distinction of being the youngest Mobile Application Programmers in India by Apple. The two had developed more than 150 test apps before launching their first official app, Catch Me Cop. Their other app, Alphabet Board, has a 5-star rating on the app store. Now 15 and 14, Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran aim to get at least 50 per cent of the smartphone users in India to use their apps.
