About

Who are we?

Apps Magnet is a startup based out of Mumbai, India. We are committed to developing applications and ideas that boost your productivity and stretch your mind. Our vision is to build breakthrough products that will transform the way people work.

What do we do?

We build extensions / modules for activeCollab and Basecamp. Both are excellent web based collaboration / project management systems. Our extensions are aimed to make you more productive and save your time.

We are also working on a new Paypal product and plan to launch useful business reporting solutions this year.

Who’s on the team?

Founder - Nirav Mehta

Founder - Nirav Mehta

Apps Magnet is founded by Nirav Mehta. He is renowned for his entrepreneurial ventures, breakthrough ideas and his contribution to open source. Nirav leads a software development company – Magnet Technologies – from India that specializes in Rich Internet Applications, Web, and Mobile. Nirav believes in simplifying the most complicated ideas and presenting them in lucid ways. Here are some of the feathers in Nirav’s cap!

  • Founder, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Magnet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. – a web / RIA solution provider based in Mumbai, India.
  • Author of two books – Mobile Web Development & Choosing an Open Source CMS
  • Blog as Entrepreneur Geek at www.mehtanirav.com – now updated rarely.
  • Started Magnet 11 years ago – when I was 18.
  • Magnet was also India’s first electronic magazine – back in 1998
  • Met Bill Gates when I was 17 – a national TV appearance achievement that time
  • Founder of Utkarsh – one of the early Linux localization efforts in India
  • Worked on 15+ product ideas in Magnet. Launched many. Many did not see the light of the day!
  • Led over 200 custom web development projects in Magnet personally
  • At its peak Magnet employed 120 people. Now scaled down to 20.

We would love to hear from you

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