Ishan Sharma

In a December 2020 account, Sharma said he built Hotspoter in eighth grade to connect his family’s smartphone without replacing a wired router. The first version had a start/stop button; sharing its download link in a blog comment brought roughly 7,000 downloads overnight. He reported more than 5.5 million cumulative downloads at that time.⁠[1]

He recalled contacting the founders after an initial rejection and building a CoderRank prototype before securing a summer internship. His HackerResume project launched on August 31; that winter he continued as an SDE Intern II. The prototype used Monaco Editor, Judge0, and Firebase, adding discussions and daily challenges.⁠[2]

Google listed Chitkara University’s Swaasthy among the year’s ten Solution Challenge finalists. Sharma developed the app with Bhavesh Goyal, Himanshu Sharma, and Kushal Bhanot using Flutter and Firebase. Its features included medication reminders, ambulance SOS calls, and virtual medical appointments.⁠[3]

He spoke on voice applications and web animation in 2022, presented Three.js web graphics at JSConf India and React Nexus in 2023, and served as a guest and judge at Yenepoya University’s April 29, 2024 techfest, mentoring hackathon prototyping.⁠[4]

Reflecting on repeated portfolio redesigns, Sharma emphasized interaction details and product polish while discussing the time required for refinement and the strain of coordination and feedback cycles. He described spending two weeks learning BlenderBlenderBlender is free and open-source 3D creation software covering workflows including modeling, animation, rendering, 2D drawing, compositing and video editing. It originated as an in-house tool Ton Roosendaal developed for an animation studio, became open source in 2002, and is developed with the support of the Blender Foundation together with a worldwide community of developers and artists.Open the full entry rigging for his portfolio before abandoning that approach for a more minimal design.⁠[5]

He is Cardboard’s co-founder and CTO, with the company in YC’s Winter 2026 batch. He connects the venture to his interests in filmmaking, visual storytelling, and engineering.⁠[6]

His portfolio includes HackerRank AI mock interviews and voice interviews, the QuickApply job-application browser extension, the LaTeX-based HackerResume builder, and the PuStack online learning platform.⁠[7]

His pinned GitHub projects also include github-wrapped for reviewing open-source contributions, the Flutter messaging app Chatter-App, and WinAMP_Flutter, a recreation of the Winamp interface. Coursify-hacktoberfest curates free learning resources for beginners.⁠[8]

Personal website: Personal links: https://ishandeveloper.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[9]

Cardboard: Official link: https://usecardboard.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[9]

HackerRank: Official link: https://www.hackerrank.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[9]

X: Public account: https://x.com/ishandeveloper (opens in a new window)⁠[10]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishandeveloper/ (opens in a new window)⁠[6]

GitHub: Public account: https://github.com/ishandeveloper (opens in a new window)⁠[8]