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So I had to charge users minimally to meet the mounting costs," he adds. I tried to ask for a donation, but nobody gave any. "But when the number of users crossed a lakh, the maintenance cost of servers increased to Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 a month. I wasn't charging anyone money to use the app. "So I decided to upload the apps on Google Playstore for free. Soon, Yuvaaraja realised that people across the country were facing delays and crashing pages when they attempted to book train tickets via the government's application.
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It was initially full of bugs but I rectified it and shared it with friends for their usage," he adds. "So I created this application which is a very basic one and began using it to make the process faster. That is when I realised how slow and cumbersome the IRCTC website is," he explains. So I was constantly taking the train to come home. In 2014, I was married and living in Bengaluru while my family lived in Tiruppur.
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"In short, they were auto-fill apps and I actually first made it for my own use. Users could then transfer the details directly to the website at the time of booking the ticket. They allowed users to save the data that is usually filled in to book tickets on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation(IRCTC) website, to be filled on the app instead. These two applications were in fact created by the techie, in one of his problem-solving spurs in 2016. He was let out on bail a week later, after being held under judicial remand. They said my app was illegal and against the Railways Act," Yuvaraaja tells TNM, close to a month after his arrest. I said yes and they immediately wanted to arrest me. "I was at home, working on some software, when the Railways police came in and asked if I had developed two mobile applications - Super Tatkal and Super Tatkal pro. But little did the 32-year-old expect that this passion would on October 23 this year, land him in a Coimbatore jail, reconsidering his entire approach to life. Wherever a problem arose, Yuvaraaja says, he was keen to find an answer. He later left his job to start a business on his own in 2014, and tackle problems in the field of logistics.