Campus Karma – India’s own campus social networking website .

When we were in college, back in those days, we hardly had any visibility of what events were going on in other colleges. All we could refer was the notice board of our own college. I thought that it must have changed, given today’s technology. But I was surprised to find very few people actually bringing the campuses together.

Campus Karma is one such platform that aims to bridge the gap between the campuses and brings all the college-going folks in one virtual platform.

Started by Rohit Gupta and his team, this platform is more than just about being social. There is a deep thought process behind it. Let’s find out more.

Q & A:

[DJ- Devender Jadi, RG –Rohit Gupta]

DJ: Hi Rohit. Tell us about how you got the idea of Campus Karma, and why did you start it?

RG: It was in 2012 while I was doing my last year of graduation in computers that the idea to formulate this website stuck my mind. Though, it owes its existence to a not so desired incident. I was a ‘fest-addict’ and me and my groups of friends were always seen skipping classes and visiting various college fests and activities, participating and demonstrating technical ideas.

As you may say I was always this ‘tech-geek’ sort of guy. Due to this we gave miss to a series of college classes and only came back to realize that in the meantime an important assignment was circulated and its last day of submission was over. I was petrified and then it suddenly occurred to me that how good it would have been if there was a ‘common notice board’ where we may get all the information’s on assignments and other academic activities and the cherry being this may also serve as a platform to connect all students of different campuses for an exchange of cultural and technical ideas.

I was into web designing and development from my school life and have also developed a few Facebook applications. I also came 3rd among the other 250+ team from India at FaceCode Hackathon for one of my Facebook app in 2012. Given my love for technology and passion about coding, I started working on the idea of a website where one can find answers to the basic campus problems and after nine months on October 2nd, 2012 stood the basic structure of ‘Campus Karma’ my website. Read complete Startup Interview of CampusKarma founder with DevJ