Startup dunia introduces lipik.in, an online product that provides users facilities to create documents in Hindi, save them and edit them later. Imagine Google documents for pure Hindi audience with no transliteration based interfaces.
A very interesting product. Though I found it extremely difficult to enter anything in Hindi -- owing to my two decades of "qwerty keyboard" mental programming (habits die hard) -- a person who never has used an English keyboard would find it an extremely useful service.
I foresee a lot of interesting action around this concept,
1. It makes internet accessible to half a billion people who can only read and write in Hindi and who have never used "qwerty English keyboard"
2. a complete new web is possible around this concept including that of email, blogs, forums & social networking platforms
I also foresee an interesting niche for VC investment with easy exit option around high value acquisitions.
4 comments:
Hi,
I run lipik.in - and while I am grateful for the positive review, I think a clarification is in order: lipik.in is meant to be a predictive input system, that eases the pain of using an unfamiliar keyboard layout.
Perhaps I need to improve the interface design, but I saw in my server logs that both sdunia & Vishal had actually created their documents in English language, which is why they did not get assistance with Hindi writing.
I'll try to figure out a way to make the document creation interface more intuitive, but in the meanwhile, I would request Vishal to pay us another visit and this time, select the correct language of the new document (using the drop-down next to the 'new doc' link) to get predictive suggestions in Hindi, which should make writing a whole lot easier.
If you need to contact me, please email aamitjain-at-gmail-dot-com
Best regards
Amit
Thanks for the note Amit. Let me try it again and check the improved interface (once ready).
Regards.Subodh
try www.blogger.com/hindi also.
Hindi speakers need not feel penalized for being from the QWERTY Kingdom. Hindi can be accommodated on a qwerty keyboard very nicely - take a peak at the Brahmi Hindi English Keyboard at kaliboncadotcom.
Cindy J
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