ahmedabad when they joined indian institute of technology in gandhinagar iitgn there was no one to tell them which joints offered good food so often their experiments resulted into an upset stomach arjita sharma deepti chopra and shivam mani tripathi all three electrical engineering students at iitgn took this up as a personal challenge and developed a mobile app called chaat which can guide a user to best street food joints in amdavad search with word like spicy paanipuri or best vada pao and chaat will show you name and location of eateries in ahmedabad one can even type the name of a food joint they have heard of and the app will show the address and route map said chopra interestingly the app will work on the principle of crowdsourcing once a person visits a shop he can mention he was there and rate the food in case someone discovers a new stall he can add and review it on the app for others to see with constant ratings and visits we will automatically get the best shops and vendors said sharma the students have found a willing target audience among their own kind students like us who live in hostels often live on street food nothing beats indian street food and to imagine it doesnt make it to any lists on worlds best street foods said tripathi a third year student the app in its initial stage yet will feature top kitlis of ahmedabad only we will gradually incorporate all the cities and also set up a website for the same explaines chopra the trio originators of the app idea that ranked second in ciies dotnet innovation challenge recently plan to make it their entrepreneurial start up by runa mukherjee parikh tnn published on apr 20 2014 at 1031 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app iit street food app dotnet innovation challenge entrepreneurial start up homenewsiitians app can guide you to best street food joints in city