With the emergence of a lot of social networking platforms a boom of internet games also has evolved as a soother for the fuming brains. It becomes the need of the hour while it is warming. Rajshri Iyer talks with the founders of HashCube technologies, an online gaming company which added values to fun times  through their innovative visions and ongoing missions.

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”

This time-honored saying is being inculcated in to one’s mind if he happens to come across with Deepan and Ramprasad, the founders of HashCube.com, the world’s most popular puzzle game website. One day when two teens created a ‘bouncing ball game’ for their school project, it was becoming the very rock bottom for a passion plus intellect drive to a dream honored.

Hashcube.com is nothing but the digital replica of a techie passion and a vision worthy to nurture amazingly at a tender age.  It is a dream-come-true for Deepan and Ramprasad who were brooding over their love and fervor to translate it into a bombastic business concept. By simply (not so simply!) pasting the brain-tearing educational puzzles to intelligent computer games in the popular social networking platforms such as Face book, My Space and Orkut, they were paving a way of their own in a world which rely on e-business and e-pastime.

HashCube – birth and growth

As professional graduates, these young techies are not running after the profit but in a mission to ensure that their users really enjoy the game, keeping in mind the improvisation of the focus and memory power of the user. Hashcube has already proven a track record of developing, deploying and monetizing educational casual games for the social and mobile platforms. An Indian origin Hashcube was apparently exorcising the American stuff from the internet game field, a think-to-be-monopoly of the Yankees.

HashCube, the social gaming company based at Bangalore, has born out of the young enthusiasm in 2008 January. The founders possess a clear-cut vision of its aims as being concentrated on making fun, classical, puzzle-type games on all popular social networks including iPhone. They claim that concentration and logical thinking would be the key differentiator for their applications.

On the run to make their teen-bred dreams come true, they admit that iAccelerator 2009 at IIM Ahmedabad was their booster which provided a 4 month incubation program jointly with CIIE where they had chances to meet with a lot of like-minded start-ups. “The interaction, the learning and the fun there was really a rewarding experience.”, remarked a jubilant Deepan.

Vision and Mission

“We have 4 games on facebook and other social networks. The popular ones being Sudoku, Loop the Loop and Dot Game. Our sudoku game is the most popular one on facebook and myspace. We generate revenue through advertisements. Social cash is another revenue stream which will be incorporated in our games within a couple of weeks.” explained Ramprasad when asked about the compass of the application.

They are not putting a full stop here. In their ongoing mission they have released a novel form of tournament in Sudoku, which brings real prizes in for the players. This innovative move has brought an enormous escalation in their traction. More over, they are confident to bring more players in by this new deviation.

Sudoku – the ‘most wanted’

Sudoku is a game which brings the intellect out of the player by adding value to fun time. HashCube maintains a clear-cut agenda in managing this game as a ‘fun-educational’ one. For the Sudoku lovers HashCube has developed a free Sudoku game which can be played right from inside the facebook. The new color-coded sudoku board plus its print facilities and loading random games within the same platform has formed a new outlook and ambit for a generation crazy puzzling games. Deepan and Ramprasad are in single thread when speaking that the renovation had changed the sudoku experiences more enjoyable than before through the Sudoku Solver.

A ball once bounced

“Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.”  But as far as the goal is concerned, the first phase itself pays for these school buddies, though their innovations pave way for its justification. When asked about their future plans also they were of the same voice. “We want to come up with more fun games, expand to other upcoming platforms like iPhone, android and iPad and… keep increasing our user base.”

Already reaching out to 150 thousand users and 3 million pages every month these young guys have already carved their names in a world of e-revolts. When a ball bounced in the teens hit the headlines at the early twenties, nothing wrong in expecting a lot of  good  catches not so far.

Maya Krishnan talks about Innoz – a sprouting entrepreneur group of Kerala with a band of four enthusiastic techies who dreams beyond the sky line exploring the technical and marketing potentials of mobile networking.

While globalization has cut down the spaces in its tiny village where people from the poles whisper to communicate, innovators are born to become the only survivors. They widen the horizons of their work and enable others to simply dog on their gadget wheels thus maintain an upper hand always. Here is the space Innoz Technologies, a student-start up company at Techno Park, Trivandrum possess, to meet head on with what they are living through and turning it into ‘the simplest and the fastest’.

As the brain child of a group of four enthusiastic students of LBS Engineering College, Kerala, Innoz Technologies has hatched out of the constant and consistent hard slogs in the pool of technology. Being stead fast on what they studied from the campus, these young guys could get on well with the ever changing communication scenario. As such their first output came at the end of 2008 as SMSGYAN.COM. It was a sms based knowledge machine which provides the function of an encyclopedia and internet compiled together, with the help of a pocket cell phone in hand. As the name implies it renders gyan means knowledge, the one which we need to survive, after air and water.

TRANZ – an easy file sharing application

After the stupendous success of the SMSGYAN.COM, Innoz was on another assignment in their way for innovations. And as a curtain-raiser of their 2010 mission, Tranz-File sharing has been launched in view of more easier and faster file-sharing operations in the mobile phone networking. Using this social tool you can share anything (even your thoughts and dreams) within your social network. At present this is accessible only in India with JAVA enabled handsets, but they are planning to launch it with Symbian, I phone and android with native applications, not so late.

Download the application from your PC : http://www.gotranz.com or from your mobile : http://www.m.gotranz.com. Tranz enables you to share photos, videos & music with your friends and family – right from your GPRS/3G mobile phone.

Using Tranz you can stay connected with your closest buddy list i.e. your phonebook! Sharing files could never have been so easy. Tranz lets you share any kind of files on your mobile with your phonebook network. You can tell aloud what you have in your mind enjoying its unlimited sms facilities.

Tranz provides download facilities and a plus effect for your Bluetooth range and enhances the unlimited exploitation of mobile internet. It also ensures an absolute privacy and security for their users.

Team Innoz- the young entrepreneurs

Though young and just had the completion of a jovial campus life, these guys are well aware of the vision and mission with which they are being tethered to.  That is why they could instigate a SMSGYAN even when they were inside the campus. That is why they could represent India among the 16 finalists for the DFJ-CISCO Global Business Comp’2009, could be the Finalist at Economic Times-Power of Ideas’2009, and deserved to be Getting Funded & Incubated by iAccelerator, IIM-Ahmedabad. They were the Top Rankers in TATA-NEN Hottest Startups’2008. They won Star Entrepreneurship Award 2009 at 3^rd Indira International Innovation Summit, Mumbai and Bloomberg-Dell Idea League Challenge’09.These are a few of their achievements which are not so easy to catch up as even when the established techies have been striving for the same for long.

More over, Innoz is the first Offshore Technology Business Incubated company in India incubated under T-BIC and as such got a niche under Technopark, Kerala. They are being supported by none other than Intel Microsoft and SUN through promising partner programs.

“Entrepreneurship is a rising phenomenon in India and requires players to take advantage of it. Never wait for the right time because so much is happening in the world. The most important factor is your dream which will always be your biggest inspiration. It is not easy to mix student life and business but it is definitely not impossible. Always have the desire to learn because whether you fail or succeed the learning process never ends.” remarks a humble Deepak Ravindran, the CEO and the king pin of Innoz Technologies.

In such a constant search for innovations in every live moment, Deepak is not alone in his meticulous voyage. Abhinav, Aswin and Hisam join with him inciting, supporting and working to the chore of vision, when the corny job-oriented educational system decodes differently for a nimble team of perpetual candor.