The viewer was built using Flash and ActionScript, and PHP was used in the backend. The renderer was a 3D viewer that would take these tiles and project it on geometry, like a cylinder or a sphere. These tiles were stored in S3 kind of storage system in URL structure that would make it easy to retrieve. We built this system that would take the data from a stitcher, which puts it together, and then tile it in different resolution so that when you open it on a particular screen, it's optimised for that screen. Abhinav explains, If you uploaded a panorama, we would split it in different resolutions, i.e., multiple component tiles. There was a backend system for hosting those panoramas and RackSpace was used for storage. Panorama was initially created using GPU computing, a web-based stitcher. At that time, it was the only app built from India that was featured worldwide.Īlso read - The untold story of Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic The TeliportMe team.Īfter speaking to the Google Android team, Teliportme Panorama app got featured on the worldwide PlayStore, effectively fetching them millions of downloads. Smartphones were becoming popular then, so they teamported the entire thing onto the smartphone. With this idea they raised $400,000 in seed funding and called their company Teliportme. The team built a set of systems and algorithms that would allow people to effectively map the world around them. We wanted to build a community of panorama takers who would go out and capture the world around them and build a crowd-sourced street view (owned by Google). We fundamentally believed that the approach of driving car-what Street View did-around isn't good enough. We thought we could build a better stitching system combined with a better viewing and sharing system. But creation of panoramas was itself a problem. Abhinav recalls, We had built a viewer for panoramas in 2006. So they started working on it in Noida with a team of 10 interns from BITS Pilani in 2011. The trio tried finding investors by building a lot of products but realised it made more sense to build on BITS360 and fine-tune it. These projects brought in some money.Ībhinav decided to skip the campus placement process and started up with Vineet and another friend. Abhinav and Vineet built a virtual tour for National University of Singapore and some other clients. However, he declined the offer and decided to let ExamCrunch brew for some more time. Abhinav (R) with Ankit Sobti at Yahoo! Skipped placements and job offers to start upĪbhinav got a job offer from Yahoo! at a time when ExamCrunch wasn't having much traction. The Yahoo! stint helped Abhinav truly understand the importance of APIs, and it continued to simmer at the back of his mind until he started working on Postman several years later. Our goal was to build an end-to-end system. We also used Yahoo! specific technologies which we got as modules. My immediate mentor was working on an API and we were working for the client side system for implementing that API. Abhinav adds, Yahoo! was mostly building a platform internally that would be accessible using an API. The system was similar to StackOverFlow.Īfter having done all the work for BITS360, ExamCrunch and LetMeKnow.in, Abhinav realised that the tools which were used to make API calls and send data took a lot of time and expertise to use them well.Īt this juncture Abhinav got an internship at Yahoo!, which was then trying to build an ingestion system for Yahoo! properties where the data would come to their systems and then could be queried and linked. One of the things they built was ExamCrunch, which was like Quora for students planning to do an MS or a PhD in the US. Around this time, he was introduced to Vineet Devaiah, who was studying at Cornell University, and together they started building multiple things. They were flooded with projects, and people sought Abhinav's expertise for individual projects as well. In his second year of college, Abhinav and three of his friends formed GrayScale to make money from building websites and applications. The BITS360 group at BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus) with Vice Chancellor Dr LK Majeshwari. But they weren’t satisfied with all this. Abhinav and his friends were the go-to people when it came to building college festival websites or designing magazines for the BITS Pilani Goa Campus. LK Maheshwari, the then Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani, liked the idea and brought the BITS360 team to Pilani to create a virtual tour of the campus. They even created a CD for the Goa Tourism ministry. For example, as a virtual tour software or a real estate promotional software. They explored the various ways it which it could be used. The team started building a product around BITS360.
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