Us along with some of our classmates send applied for the competition and we got selected to the finals and were told to include more technical information.In the finals we had to present a still or working model.As computer science students we are blank about the idea of incineration and we dont know the basics of incinerating.Then i contacted my friend and senior who is was a part of the mechanical department Cherian Francis.When we told him about this idea,he was very interested and give us some details and required information for presenting the paper.

Cherian gave us clear details and taught us about the working of the toilet and made improvements in our design.And we went for the final.There we were the only team from CSE Dept.We presented well.But by comparing our still model with the working and great super still models that were competing with us, we lost hope.

When the results were announced we were awarded third prize for our idea and were congragulated by MR Saurav Vice President Of Paytm on being very socially active and and having knowledge about what the current situations of railway toilets. we stood out from others by our social knowledge.

RubberLive - Apps on Google Play

The journey of our release was a learining experience and we faced a lot of problems midway through our development .I shared my experience with my friend Akshay Ravindran and he said he went through the same while developing his app ie,Game of Batteries.

Game of Batteries - Apps on Google Play

We faced payment problems initialy .It required a Credit card,as I mentioned earlier my father is a planter and does not have a credit card ,so my cousin George Thomas helped me with it.For hype we released a promo on the previous day of release.In the final stage we needed to design a banner. Sinadin Zidan K did a last minute rush with photoshop.We also created a Trailer with the help of my friend Sayooj Surendran who made an eye catching video for us within few hours.

After release the response was very good.We achieved hundreds of downloads in just a few hours.We were happy with the reviews we recieved,thats fills our mind with satisfaction.The downloads we got were less than what we expected..but still we got responses that helps a lot.

In the run for developing RubberLive, many people helped us .Once again thanking our mentor Felix Josemon, who still gives us feedback and new ideas for betterment of the app.We are still working on it.Also thanking Irshad P I who was the coding guide for us.

My dear friends, you all can expect much more products from Cerebrom Developers.We started with a global project which will be helpful people around the world.The matter of investent is an issue,we are still on the search for VCs and contributors.

Everything we find we present it to worldwide….

We all came there with an idea.As a part of DSC we all had a basic idea for modern field and all of us and our seniors went their to present their ideas.

Our team also had an idea we had come up with together and decided to present it. When I told my colleagues about idea grant, they did not seem so excited about taking part. Then our mentor Felix told us to take it as an opportunity rather than as a competition.

We all registered and passed the first stage of selection. Then we went for the presentation stage.

Before going there everyone was very excited with the program and supportful.We went there and presented with a lot of confidence .But unfortunately we were not selected for the next phase.But we dint lose hope and went forward with our project.

Everyone was in a condition like Japan in 1950’s.We were disappointed that we dint get the money with which we had planned to buy a Macbook with a part it.
As I had predicted, the responses from my family is same, ours idea is like Titanic ad we are working on the rubber industry, but the industry itself is going down. But the advice from my parents is not to give up and just keep moving forward.

So we decided to just keep doing what we were , but there was some day due to the university exams.

What I learned is that there are many opportunities in this competitive world ,but we are not utilising it.We should take work seriously for our career.
A team, our surroundings, facilities,….etc etc everything are opportunities to grow and gives us a strong foundation to build ourselves upon.

Opportunities never end!!!!!!

Cyriac Biju Jeevan George John

Only modern startups changed the world.So we should be innovative and find out problems of people or major defects in our society.In this run we may fail but if we find any good solution for any of the major problems it may change the world.

At this moment I am inspired by the team Genrobotics who invented “Bandicoot” .It is going to save millions of lives, I am sure about it.Bandicoot is a robot which cleans the manholes.Well…….I am not the best person to talk about it so…..

Kerala engineers who developed robot to clean manholes are on a mission to end manual scavenging

If you have a heart you would have surely shed some tears while seeing the above video.I thank the team who invented such a robot,this invention doesnt directly affect me in anyway but I found it as an innovative invention.Hats off to GENROBOTICS….

I went for my first GDG Cohin meetup on Kotlin on saturday.Its was a great experience.There I learned a new language easier than Java and C++.I wanted to share my experience with my colleagues,So the next day I made a conversation call and shared my experience and they were all excited.

I was surprised to see that most of the people who had attended were graduates and employees,only me and my friend Allwyn were first year students.Also other teams part of the DSC community were present there.I think it was a great opportunity for us to get in the first year itself. Muhammed Shibin was very interactive and friendly to us.The speaker Livin and Shibin gave us their contact details and were given the freedom to contact them.

Towards the end of the program when were about to leave a man whom I dont know gave us an email and asked us to send a mail if we were intrested in internships.This was a dream come true.From the begining of my academic year I was worried thinking on where to start my intership.It is a great opportunity for me.So a great thanks to GDG Cochin and from now on I will try to attend all meetups of GDG.

In the initial stage we found only little difficulty in creating the prototype since all the designing part had been done well by Sinadin Zidan K.

On the same day at night it was about 10pm, our mentor Felix Josemon called me and told me to make a conversation call then itself.Everyone joined the call. He came to understand that we were slow in our process and that we had a long way to go.The most difficult task is yet to come-the web scrapping,database storage and displaying database in the App.So we all were blank,and didn’t know what to do

At night me and Shaheem searched the web and acquired basic knowledge.By God’s grace there was a strike today which we enjoyed a lot and we all came to our class and worked together.

After continous learning and watching youtube videos, we all came to know that we need to travel a lot.In this case Mohammed Shaheem took the duty of web scraping and he started his work there itself and put a deadline for next monday. Cyriac Biju was impatiently waiting for some duty and he kept complaining that he has nothing to do. So I told him to do the Database to Android part and also I will accompany him.He always likes to learn something new and he is outstanding in academics.

Zidan got stuck with adding some properties in the design.On knowing this, Jeevan George John told that he will do that.At last when we were all settled down we forgot to have lunch.We all missed lunch,but we were proud that we were ready to sacrifice something for our project.

We are hoping that we would be able to finish our project within our deadline.Hoping for the best.

So with all love we are starting our First project RUBBER LIVE today.We are very happy to perform such an activity in our first year itself.So at this occassion we are very much excited and sincere. We are thankful to our seniors who taught us the essentials of Android Studio.Some may ask, Why today?There is no particular reason,just that we became free today after completing our exams.

With everyones’ permission I added one member who is our classmate but not in any of the DSC teams,that is Mohammad Shaheem,he is good at coding and one of my best friends.From the begining of this year he had been telling me that we want to do something special for others.So in my first project I wanted him to accompany me.He is calm and quite.I think we both have the same thoughts.I always think about uniqueness and speciality and he shares the same principles.So definitely I need him in my group.

We all selected certain tasks under the directions of our mentor Felix.He told me that everyone should take different tasks so that work can be completed easily and quickly.We all have different skills,Zidan is good at designing,Shaheem is good at xml coding,myself at Java etc.So we are starting our race.

The count down starts……we are expected to complete the work within a month.If everything goes as planned we will release our app by the end of march.We hope everything ends with success and happiness.

Felix Josemon Cyriac Biju Sinadin Zidan K Jeevan George John Mohammed Shaheem

One of the teams found a problem in a nearby mess,their idea was to make anapp to mark the attendance of the students. Currently there is a huge rush to mark attendance .But by using the app ,students can mark attendance at the time of their convenience and the chef can get easily informed of the numbers.But the chef was not excited with this idea.Still they are proceeding with it.

There is no problem in our idea,but Felix told us after seeing the conversation that we had with the shopkeeper that we were forcefully imposing our idea on him.So we decided to withdraw that idea.

The group led by Prabhav came out with the idea of booking items through phone without the internet but by connecting a local host/link in the shop after reaching the shop.The chef gets notification and hence there is no need of a waiter and the customers will be able to collect their order based on order displayed on the tv.

So from all these we came to a conclusion and that we shouldn’t be limited to these local businesses.So within a splash in between the discussion I got the idea of making an app for the PLANTERS.

My father is a farmer but I opted for the software industry because after a great considreation and consultation I came to the conclusion that the socialist illussion was a great botheration to the Indian nation whose chief occupation was cultivation education.But with further contemplation deliberation I discoverd that without globalisation exploration there cannot be an optimisation to make India’s transformatiion into a super power nation.So I decided to work to make the lives of Planters easier.

Since my childhood I have been seeing that my father has to check rubber prices in newspaper daily and the previous days market price.So we were selling rubber without knowing the present price.Also I have seen many small dealers near by are very busy in the morning calling their main dealers to know the market price and dealers price.They are afraid to buy sheets from customers without knowing the daily price.

I decided to make an app that gives live market prices of rubber.It shows the price of all major markets and also shows the graph of previous deviations.We are able to recollect old prices.I hope this will be useful for dealers as well as planters.Hope for the best result.The name is inspired from the app created by my seniors last year FUEL LIVE..

Here is the prototype of RUBBER LIVE

RUBBER LIVE

Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover!!!

Felix Josemon Cyriac Biju Sinadin Zidan K Jeevan George John

We all became a part of DSC GEC Thrissur.Our mentor is Felix Josemon the Goolge scholar.We had a coffee meetup and discussed about the plan for the next 30 days.

Countdown starts…

On 17 me and my friends got down to business……….

We four became a team and my inmates are CYRIAC BIJU,JEEVAN GEORGE and SINADIN ZIDAN.Our team leader is Cyriac,he has a good attitude and doesn’t jump into anything without thinking twice. So without any opposition he was chosen as the leader.

We started our field work,we went to the neighbourhood coolbar.While having refreshments we discussed about the challenges they face in their field.When we reached there we found that the juice maker finds it difficult to prepare juice for the customers.It is a time-consuming process and as the number of customers increases its causes a lot of chaos and delay .

The first idea that struck me was to create an app that allows the customer to pre book the juice of their choice online. This will help the juice maker to be able to be more organized and serve the customer by the time they reach the shop.

But Cyriac pointed out a drawback that payment would be a problem. An individual might book items then cancel it and this will cause waste of effort and loss for the shopkeeper.

Jeevan came up with the idea that the customer can pay using online transactions.But online transactions are real risky so we dropped that idea.

Zidan came up with an innovating idea where the shopkeeper can distribute coupons worth the money and regular coustomers can redeem the points on the card.In this way there will be no loss for the shopkeeper.

We asked their opinion about developing an app for their convenience and they seemed excited about the idea and promised their support.He was very excited to hear such an idea in a village area eventhough the people around the shop are mainly engineering students.With the introductionof JIO and the growing popularity of smartphones people have easy access to internet connections.So it will help the students who plan for an outing save a lot of time and avoid any lag unless its a couple who would prefer some lag to spend more time together………….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOw36lQZkr0

But he is not at all satisfied with this new gen ideas because he has been doing business for many years now and doesnt need such an app.He prefers using a calculator.We asked about developing a new calculator app with basic functions,but he does not like the idea of keeping his phone on his table.

So we left the shop after having a discussion with the manager.He agrees with half of our ideas and that he would like to consult his owner.So we left after taking a selfie with the manager SHIVA and saved his phone number for future contact.

We got a lot of take-aways from this single incident,we understood that it is not easy to do business and marketing in this society.There are many challenges, marketing is more difficult than developing.Me as a one man army,cant do anything but with help of my colleagues I have faith that I can develop a good team that can bring changes.

Hardwork,determination,team work and faith in God will make us succeed.

Felix Josemon Sinadin Zidan K Jeevan George John Cyriac Biju