The TikTok ban has had a major impact on the download of Indian origin apps in the United States. The majority of the people are stuck at their homes and want to do something to keep themselves busy, now since TikTok is banned and there are the nation’s sentiments to support the Indian origin apps, this whole huge spike in the download is observed.
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Chingari App
The app is designed to make it easy for people to share short videos with friends and family. It has a news and games section that lets users enjoy short videos with friends and family. The app is available on both Android and iOS devices.
On June 30, Chingari saw downloads go from 3 lakh per hour to 6 lakh per hour between 5 pm and 9 pm on the app. This was the day after the Indian Government announced the ban on TikTok.
Not even Facebook’s mobile app and Mark Zukerberg would have had 6 lakh downloads per hour in its best of times, according to Ghosh.
Ghosh said that they saw a spike in the downloads of the app before the ban from June 10 when Boycott China campaign started heating up and then Anand Mahindra also tweeted on 28 June, “I hadn’t ever downloaded TikTok but I have just downloaded Chingari… More power to you.”
Ghosh plans to find investors for the app soon. “No Chinese capital,” he said. “It’s mostly going to be Indian and some US capital.” This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The founders were not ready for the surge in traffic and that is why Ghosh tweeted, “Het Bharat! We crashed our servers again, guys pls be patient… working hard for the last 48 hours, sleeping less than 2 hours, making sure we could scale up all parts of our infra fast.”
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