Is locating an ambulance, hospital bed, oxygen cylinder, medicines like remdesivir, vaccination information or mental health treatment proving to be a daunting task for you? Now, a location and interest-based application developed by M S University pass-outs is providing a new Covid chat feature to connect seekers to service providers.

The feature consists of a location-based live chat where providers can start a thread and seekers can connect with them personally or group chat with them within radius of 50 km.

The feature has been added to the app — Gossip — so that it can solve the huge problem of communication regarding Covid.

“Currently, there are many people who are trying to help those in need. But it is not reaching those who are in need. For instance, there are separate portals of individual cities like Vadodara and Mumbai. At the same time, you might post something on social media seeking help for your friend in Mumbai. But those who can help are not connected with you,” said Shubhra Saha, who along with Shyam Sunder has founded the app Gossip.

The idea to develop such an app surfaced last year when during lockdown Saha, a native of West Bengal got stuck in Vadodara for nearly three months without any knowledge of what was happening in his neighbourhood.
“In Gossip, we have introduced GPS in group chat, a tool through which everybody in your vicinity will get a notification. By this feature, the information that is flowing in unorganised way will reach out to people in organised way,” said Saha, who has passed out from MSU’s Maharaja Ranjitsinh Gaekwad Institute of Design (MRID).

Incubated by MSU under mentorship of Dr Akash Pandey, the app is currently in beta version (testing phase).
“Currently, there is no indigenously developed well-designed social media platform for the Indian market. At a time, when we are talking of ‘Make in India’, there was a need of a location-based social media app. We developed Gossip as a better version of Twitter,” Saha said.

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