WhatNeXT

Well in this post I am going to write about how idea of WhatNeXT came into our mind, how we executed it and what are the reactions of people after launching our first site.

I really feel great and excited after launching our first site.
Few days back my younger bro who is studying in 12th was asking me about engineering colleges and he was asking me what is the cutoff for CoEP and VJTI so idea was just flashed into my mind "why not to help many such 12th students out there?" and then we started thinking on it more seriously. I still remember four years back when I came to CoEP for admission round, I was under impression that I'll get any branch for sure because my score was 189/200 and I wanted EnTC or Computer. But then I couldn't get into both of the branches and so chose IT. Funny thing was I was assuming PICT and PIET to be same college. And I didn't even know any college in Pune except CoEP.

So I decided to go with this website idea as people in 12th don't know much about colleges, available branches and then I started looking for partners. I got really good partners Pradeep Chaudhari and Gaurish Chaudhari, my batch mates! One interesting thing about Pradeep is he was getting admission into Computer at CoEP but due to lack of information he ended up taking IT. Also Gaurish did lot of servey (:P) whether he would be getting admission to CoEP. And finally he got into IT and later changed his branch to Computer after being topped in first year.

Working for this site was never an easy job. We really had nightmare while collecting all the data, designing our database schema, writing the algo for suggesting colleges. We had to learn all the technologies from scratch. So I got to learn many such things while working on this project.
I think only idea is not important, executing that idea is more important because every day many ideas keep coming into our mind but we just think that whether I will able to do it? What people will say about it? Will it be useful? So at such times you just need to have faith in your abilities. And I think I chose best people of our batch while working on this site.

We launched the site two days back and we have around 1000 hits on the site. Still there are many more bugs to be fixed lot of things to be done. As prdaeep rightly says deployment seems much difficult than coding.

It's really fun working on such real time project.

It feels great when people appreciate your effort and give you positive feedback. Many people liked the idea and helped us really well in these days. I would like to thank Suyog Kotecha,Bhagyashree Kothari, Tareq, Anand Hegde, Mohini Patil, Akshay Nikam, Rohan Prabhu and all those who gave us the feedback. We would love to hear any suggestions/feedback/comments from y ou.

Check out the site at : http://www.whatnextplus.com
and fb page at : www.facebook.com/whatnextpune

Just mail the suggestions to support@whatnext.org.in and please share the link.

Thanks for taking interest into WhatNeXT :)