What is so special about 19-year-old Harsh Songra? Facebook COO published a post about him
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When 19-year old On Wednesday, Songra was woken up at 2 a.m. by the frequent
The social networking site’s COO posted: "We're supporting developers like Harsh who have great ideas but can't always access the resources they need."
My Child is an Android app that tells parents if their child is likely to be suffering from a developmental disorder by processing basic inputs such as the child's height, weight and gender, in just 45 seconds.
Why did Songra develop this app? There is a sad story behind it. It took his parents nine long years to get him diagnosed of having dyspraxia, a developmental disorder.
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The late diagnosis meant that his parents could do nothing to help. But Songra's father, who was a
When he was 16-year-old, Songra was experimenting with algorithms. His drive to do something that will guide parents like his and two years of research helped him build My Child all by himself. The app had seen downloads from across six continents.
His app was launched in January this year. It was built with the help of Facebook's platform Parse and promoted with other tools such as Facebook ads, Hootsuite and Mailchimp.
The Chairman of product council at Nasscom,
He expressed his excitement at Sandberg's post in a Facebook post. Songra, who is pursuing BCA in the
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