You know you're going places when Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg shares a post on her timeline about your startup, citing it as an archetype for their FbStart programme. 19-year old Harsh Songra has declared himself "really honoured" on seeing his brainchild 'My Child App' find mention as well as support from her, under FbStart - Facebook's new platform designed to help early stage mobile startups build and grow their apps.
This is cool. I am really honoured that Sheryl Sandberg mentioned about My Child app and is supporting us. This is just...
Posted by Harsh Songra on Tuesday, 25 August 2015
This motivated the teenager to search for a solution that would allow others like him quicker access to medical care. Launched in January this year, Harsh developed the MyChild app to help parents screen developmental disorders such as delayed motor coordination and neurological disorders in their kids by feeding in a few inputs. Moreover, it takes just 45 seconds for the app to identify any red flags.
Harsh Songra studies at the Bhopal School of Social Sciences and is also a software developer at Google, according to his Facebook bio.
Read Sheryl Sandberg's entire post here:
Harsh Songra is a 19 year old software developer from India. He grew up with a condition called dyspraxia. Because he...
Posted by Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday, 25 August 2015
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