IIT Delhi student Saurav lashkari has won a TV reality show for his idea for a mobile app that allows you to block the numbers you wouldn’t wish to call when drunk
We all have our ‘when drunk’ moments and habits. And the most common one is calling people, we otherwise would not like to talk to.
Saurav lashkari, 22-year-old IIT Delhi student, claims he never had such an experience but he was inspired by his friend’s experience to come up with an idea of app called ‘drunk check’.
“Every now and then people have ‘those nights’ when they are drunk and they do crazy things that they don’t even remember the next day. Something similar happened to one of my friends when we were in third year of college. My friend got drunk, called up his ex-girlfriend and conveyed nasty things. So when I went to France as an exchange student, I felt that there should be an application to keep track of our ‘those nights’,” explained Saurav.
His app idea has made Saurav win a million rupees as the winner of app reality show — Nokia Your Wish is my App.
Drunk check allows you to block the numbers you wouldn’t wish to call when drunk. The user can blacklist certain numbers before going to a party and the application will prevent the user from contacting the blacklisted numbers.
The application also allows you to ‘whitelist’ certain contacts, which when needed can receive your location via GPS. The app records your location every 15 minutes and stores links to the pictures you take when the app is activated to provide you a detailed report the next morning.
To prevent the person from accessing the application in a fiddly mood, the app has a sobriety test which uses the phones gyroscope to complete a calibration test which when passed gives you access to the blacklisted contacts, even when you select a number to call, the app will display the picture of the contact selected. If a call is made while the app is active, it will record the conversation and store it if some clarity is required while recovering from the hangover.
Saurav has graduated as a chemical engineer and will be starting his work in Hindustan Unilever in a few months.
“It was my first experience in a TV reality show and it was great. The judges contributed with valuable ideas. I still can’t believe I won a million rupees and probably a million hearts of drunk Indians. It wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my brother Gaurav lashkari and my parents,” said Saurav.
Nokia received a pool of 61,000 astounding app ideas across the globe. Four thousand ideas will be shared with top developers to be converted into applications for the Windows phone store.
Gurgaon-based Kritika Verma is the first runner up for her app idea ‘encycloPETia’ aimed at creating one stop destination for pet lovers.
Devyani Ruhela from Delhi is the second runner up for her app idea ‘bunking buddy’ which allows you to organise your class bunks.