Code For India

Looking at the team it seems that except the founder , all the contributors are from the same company. I believe this is because this is a new site. It will be very difficult to maintain a truly democratic model for teamwork in Indian conditions , because many folks would try to hijack the good work done by others (not mere speculation). A benevolent dictator that vetoes what is done , accepted initially would be for best.

Why I do have to get in contact with them to start a project? Centralized monitoring often leads to self-promotion. It happens in India a lot. Pass. Until they are really open.

The problem in India is not about creation, but adoption, and it is mainly cultural.

Selling to companies is highly driven by relationship, and then cost. The company who was named as the topmost technology innovative company (http://www.nasscom.in/innovation-awards2013) is yet to find some solid traction.

And helping government? There will be no takers, since they want you to make solution as costly as possible (and thus more money can be allocated and spent, you know why).

So that leaves consumer-centric approach: "Help people help each other." Particularly because today everyone can afford a smart phone. But how much change people-only focus will bring about, we need to explore and debate.

We should very much welcome the efforts such as this one; but I hope we all appreciate and understand the underlying constraints.

This is more write code and get marketed here than anything else. I thought the site is more about open source contributions from India serving local needs. Its more a marketing tool and probably idea recruiting for future funding.

Looks to be a nice initiative, something is always better than nothing. I hope like many others, they just don't set the site and forget after 8 months.

Though I couldn't found it, I am sure it is non profit (it has to be), also are they giving some "no strings attached" money to the people ? and as @linvin said below, in India the problem is not creation but adoption. You just can't create apps/sites and expect people to start using it. It takes lot of time, marketing, effort, resources, people and money to make it happen.