ago 2013 headquarters bangalore india area served worldwide founder s shubham badal ashish gupta ceo shubham badal key people shubham badal ceo ashish gupta cto ajeet lakhani founding engineer industry internet slogan s explore the internet website www.cybrhome.com written in python angularjs 1 2 type of site web directory advertising no registration optional required to socialize available in english launched november 3 2013 current status active native client s on web android google chrome cybrhome is a website that helps people explore the internet . 3 the site founded by shubham badal with classmates ashish gupta and ajeet lakhani in their dorm rooms at national institute of technology karnataka was first launched in november 2013 . 4 it is based out of bangalore india and is backed by the department of science and technology government of india . 5 cybrhome currently has users from over hundred countries with most of the traffic flowing from india and us . contents 1 history 1.1 2013 2014 1.2 2015 present 2 product 2.1 overview 2.2 features 2.3 content 2.4 users 2.5 platforms 3 technology 4 awards and recognition 5 see also 6 references 7 further reading 8 external links history edit 2013 2014 edit in the fall of 2013 shubham a computer engineering sophomore at national institute of technology karnataka created cybrhome . the first version launched on november 3 2013 was an online new tab page that linked to some of the world s most used websites . 4 in 2014 to improve on the product usability and seize the market the company started experimenting on some bigger futuristic and scalable ideas that can aid cybrhome . the team decided to extend cybrhome by building into it a modern web directory styled discovery engine that can help people explore the internet . cybrhome was moved to microsoft azure cloud in october 2014 . in december 2014 ashish gupta joined as a full time co founder & cto to build the technology required to power cybrhome . 2015 present edit on 31st january 2015 cybrhome was listed among country s top 25 student startups at tata first dot 2015 . this convinced the team to continue development on the discovery engine . the company further developed the prototype and started promoting the beta version of cybrhome discovery engine in spring 2015 . in april 2015 a chrome app was also released . 6 in may 2015 ajeet lakhani joined the team as a full time founding engineer to improve the product experience and application . in june 2015 the company released a dedicated mobile site and in august 2015 a beta version of the android app was first released . social profiles on cybrhome were launched in september 2015 . cybrhome was also chosen for facebook s fbstart program in october 2015 . 3 in january 2016 the company redesigned the web app to introduce new features like crowd sourcing and improved socialization . a chrome extension was released in march 2016 followed by a redesigned mobile website . in march 2016 shubham was chosen for 25 under 25 a prestigious list of india s top 25 young achievers in the science and technology category published by campus diaries . 7 in april 2016 the company announced that it received a pre seed funding from department of science & technology government of india . 5 in august 2016 the company moved its operations to bangalore india following the founders graduation . the team was also inspired by the indian prime minister narendra modi s startup india campaign which further strengthened the company s mission of building a world class consumer internet product from india . 8 product edit overview edit cybrhome is a website discovery portal where users can find best websites for various topics and categories . registered users get their own user profile and can follow other users . they can also review and bookmark websites or follow topics and categories . registered users can add their own websites or improve upon existing website listings . 9 features edit users can search or browse for any topic or category to hunt and explore relevant websites . once logged in users can also socialize on the platform . users can like rate review and bookmark websites . users can follow friends to get to know what websites they like or have tried . users can make use of integrated crowd sourcing to add or edit websites topics or categories . users can send and share websites topics or categories and follow topics and categories . other features include social notifications user dashboard content and privacy settings . content edit there are four ways a new site is added to the listing database . first the cybrhome bot automatically fetches the site from the web while crawling and adds to the portal . second an editor from the cybrhome team manually lists the site . third a user submits a site which is then reviewed by the cybrhome content team . lastly the owner of the website or business can add the listing . 10 as of aug 2016 there were over 40 000 websites listed on cybrhome . 11 users edit users may sign up with their email or using google facebook or twitter accounts using the openid protocol . user registration is optional on the site but is required to use features like crowd sourcing send website review like bookmarks etc. once a user registers a user profile is generated . username and email can be changed later . platforms edit cybrhome was primarily released as a desktop web app . later on a dedicated mobile web app was also created . cybrhome is also available as an android app and google chrome extension with an ios app planned . technology edit cybrhome being a modern web directory styled discovery engine is powered by a cluster of languages frameworks tools and technologies . cybrhome uses python django in the back end along with django rest framework for rest apis . angularjs is used on client side to consume these apis and also to power the interface which is built using html css javascript jquery . redis is used for cache and notifications . gulp was bought into the stack for front end task automation . cybrhome is deployed over microsoft azure cloud . 1 2 awards and recognition edit cybrhome was listed among india s top 25 student startups at tata first dot 2015 . cybrhome is also supported by facebook fbstart and was invited by google india for google startup bootcamp 2015 held at new delhi in october 2015 . cybrhome was also ranked 5th in a list of tech startups conceived at college campuses in india compiled by campus diaries . 12 cybrhome was the first campus startup from any national institutes of technology to receive funding from department of science and technology government of india . 5 see also edit web directory web search engine social bookmarking social search list of web directories list of social bookmarking websites semantic web startup company references edit a b cybrhome on stackshare . stackshare . retrieved 9 september 2016 . a b cybrhome engineering blog . cybrhome engineering blog . retrieved 9 september 2016 . a b sanjiv deepthi oct 24 2015 . now a platform to discover top websites . bangalore mirror . retrieved 9 september 2016 . a b mohit bansal . cybrhome a home page developed by a 2nd year college student . tech aloo . retrieved 9 september 2016 . a b c anand shantanu . the entrepreneurship culture of nitk surathkal . campus diaries . retrieved 9 september 2016 . mendonsa kevin feb 4 2016 . nit k students develop country s first search engine to discover websites . the times of india . retrieved 9 september 2016 . joshi samata . here s announcing the final list of 25 under 25 2016 . campus diaries . retrieved 9 september 2016 . dh ns . nitk team s cybrhome to search web portals . deccan herald . retrieved 9 september 2016 . website discovery made easy through cybrhome . indshare . retrieved 15 september 2016 . vinayak aj feb 24 2016 . this students start up explores web in a different way . business line . retrieved 9 september 2016 . cybrhome giving you the best of the web . indiaspark . retrieved 15 september 2016 . 25 indian tech startups that were conceived in college . campus diaries . retrieved 15 september 2016 . further reading edit bangalore mirror the times of india deccan herald external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cybrhome & oldid 742757727 categories web directoriesinternet search enginessocial bookmarkingsocial networksrecommender systemscommunity websitessocial information processingsocial cataloging applicationsgoogle chrome extensionsandroid operating system softwareinternet companiesonline companiesinternet properties established in 2013companies of indiainternet companies of indiaonline companies of indiaindian websitescompanies based in bangalore navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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