Teens develop Chrome plug-in for shopping desi products online

Mangaluru: Want to shop local or Indian made products on e-commerce websites? Here is a chrome plug-in SochSwadeshi that helps online shoppers buy Indian made products and support the Prime Minister’s ‘Vocal For Local’ call.

The plug-in is developed by three teenagers — Swasthik Padma , Mohammed Suhail CS , and Pranav Shikarpur.

Mohammed Suhail is native of Srinrangapatna and Pranav is from Bengaluru, both have taken a break after their Class 12 to focus on research.

Swasthik, a first year electronics and communication engineering student from Puttur, said SochSwadeshi is a chrome plug-in that helps shop Indian products on e-commerce stores like Amazon, Flipkart. “This plug-in was developed to support our Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for Vocal For Local and Atma Nirbhar Bharath,” said Swasthik Padma.

He said the trio were brainstorming on how to find an alternative to Tiktok and other Chinese apps post its ban in India. “This is when we got an idea of this plug-in which helps an online shopper to shop only Indian made products. The plug-in was ready in just a week’s time,” added Swasthik.

It is currently available only for desktops and they are planning to introduce the same for mobile browsers. “Taking this plug-in to mobile requires testing and there are also privacy issues which need to be addressed. We are working on it,” he added.

To download SochSwadeshi click: https://get.sochswadeshi.in/install