Techies out for selling their creativity

Oct 12

No problem if another recession hits the IT sector. The techies of the Thiruvananthapuram Technopark are earning an extra income out of their creativity.

Techie Store, a latest initiative of a group of IT professionals of the Technopark, is setting the platform for the techies to showcase their creativity and get a fair price. Techies could post their products on www.store.technoparktoday.com and find prospective buyers.

“We have come up with the idea after it was noticed that lot of techies in the Technopark are involved in various creative works like painting, cooking, making of curios etc. Though launched only couple of days back, the new venture is getting an impressive response, “ says Renjith Ramachandran, an IT professional in a Technopark firm who is one of the active promoters of the online venture.

'Technoparktoday.com', has been one of the prime initiatives of the group. The community portal aims at exchanging IT related news as well as other useful information to the techies, especially those in the Technopark. The group also maintains www.tpbazaar.com, a website aimed at selling used commodities like household items and other gadgets of techies, besides real estate trade and house rental.

Techie Store will be an online store for the techies by the techies. There are lots of techies who do oil and glass paintings, embroidery works, modelling vintage aircraft, greeting cards, various dishes and cakes and even designer ornaments. At present, these are being distributed among their friends or office circles. At times some of the companies conduct in-house events to promote the creativity of their employees, say the promoters.

Through the new initiative we give the techies a plat form to display their products and quote the price. A collection centre would also be assigned in Technopark campus for the transaction between the buyer and seller.

“We do not intend to earn any profit from this as the transaction would take place between the buyer and seller directly. We are merely setting a platform for displaying the products, “ says Renjith.

Various essential commodities for techies like ID card holder and memory cards would also be made available through the Techie Store.

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