Pingerbird
Built for learning. Not for likes.
A social learning network for India's competitive exam aspirants · Kyrix Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
The problem
No platform owns learning
Instagram owns entertainment. YouTube owns video. WhatsApp owns messaging. Students and educators already learn on all four — informally, and badly.
TelegramFiles and quiz polls, with zero content control and no real scoring or ranking
WhatsAppAnnouncements and doubt-solving, buried in the scroll within hours
YouTubeLecture videos, where an entertainment-first algorithm buries educational reach
InstagramQuick facts and story quizzes that vanish in 24 hours, with no leaderboard
Our own testOne channel · 8 subscribers · 2 days
Traction
A live product with real usage
1,300+Downloads
400+Monthly active users
49.2%Stickiness (DAU/MAU)
1,000+Daily interactions
A Chennai coaching institute replaced its paid tool for 130+ active students — and the owner offered to pay while Pingerbird is still free.
A TNPSC community reached 400 members on roughly ₹1,000 of total spend, about ₹2.50 per member.
Father's Day Grand Challenge: 175 registrations across five languages, prize delivered with public proof.
How it works
Content built to be discovered
Instagram has Post, Reel and Carousel. Pingerbird has Quiz, Test, Poll and Competition — formats built for education, and for being found.
1
Create a Nest
A discoverable community around a topic — not just a follower list
2
Post a Quiz, Test or Poll
Structured formats built for education, not repurposed video or text
3
Host a competition
Ranked, prize-backed, and discoverable by anyone searching that topic
4
Students find it by search
Search NEET, MBA or BPSC and see what is actually running today
5
The creator gets paid
Entry fees and premium Nests, with the creator keeping 80% of revenue
Business model
80/20The creator or institute keeps 80%.
Pingerbird keeps 20%.
Pingerbird keeps 20%.
Paid competitions
Students pay an entry fee to join a host's competition. The host sets the price — minimum ₹10, no upper limit.
Paid Nests
Creators charge for access to their own premium learning community.
No competitor currently gives creators or institutes a branded competition with revenue share.
Market
3 crore+
Students sitting competitive exams in India each year — UPSC, state PSCs, SSC, banking, defence, teaching
~27% CAGR
Forecast growth of India's test-prep market to 2034 as exam prep moves online (IMARC Group)
Go to market
Partner-led, not paid ads
1
Direct outreach
WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram outreach to coaching institutes and creators
2
Zero-risk adoption
Pingerbird sponsors the prize, so partners adopt at no cost or risk
3
Organic registration
The partner's existing audience trust drives sign-ups, with no ad spend
Beachhead: state PSC exams — BPSC, MPSC, TNPSC, KPSC. Then SSC, banking, defence.
Team
SL
Sathyam Livingstone
Founder — product, partnerships, growthBuilt and shipped Pingerbird end to end
React Native · NestJS · Postgres · AWS
2 yrs SWE, Squapl Technologies
B.Sc Data Science, Karunya