Assam trio develops TikTok-like TipTeapi
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The free app may be downloaded from Google Playstore and will probably be obtainable for customers in India and some different international locations
An Assam trio has developed a video taking part in and sharing app that they hope can be India’s reply to the banned Chinese TikTok.
Saswati Kotoky, Amarjyoti Gautam and Himanga Madhukalya — all pc engineers from japanese Assam — advised mediapersons that their free app was primarily for leisure and might be downloaded from Google Playstore.
“It will be available for users in India and a few other countries,” mentioned Ms. Kotoky after launching the app in japanese Assam’s Jorhat city on Saturday.
“We came up with the app for providing a platform for people to showcase their talents in comedy, cooking, music, art and any other field,” she mentioned.
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The app has 12 classes and other people can add their movies that others can view. Like TikTok, TipTeapi permits customers to make buddies, observe, like, remark and share movies.
“But unlike the Chinese apps, our app is secure with privacy protection,” Mr. Gautam mentioned, including that they’d the choice of blocking movies in the event that they acquired complaints concerning the importing of offensive and objectionable content material.
The trio mentioned they’d come collectively in 2019 to kind a start-up for creating apps. The COVID-19 lockdown interval made them deal with the entertainment-based apps.
TipTeapi, they mentioned, took six months to develop.