Young Pakistani Entrepreneurs Help You Crack the SAT

What happens when budding innovators boasting Stanford degrees return to their native Pakistan and bring with them a little bit of the Silicon Valley spirit? They conceive a startup called Tintash that focuses on developing iPhone applications and harbors Google-esque ambitions of merging flair and innovation.

The best applications arise in response to a plea for help. In this case, need was demonstrated by Tintash’s software guru Ishaq. He sought words of wisdom that would help him buff up his vocabulary and muscle his way into the graduate programs of his choice.

"Use Flashcards!". He heard that cliché so many times his head started to spin.

The idea of devoting hours of his precious life fumbling with such cards did not appeal to a man of technology like Ishaq. But he was more than happy to compose a flashcards app for the iphone/ipod-touch if his bosses agreed to spend time compiling a list of high frequency words tested on such exams.

Tintash soon launched a free prototype "Wordlist Lite" to test demand for such an application. The response was overwhelming: 10,000+ downloads in just two weeks! The company was also deluged under email from customers praising the application and demanding additional features.

And the rest was history. Tintash made helping students boost their verbal scores a sacred mission. The team spent weeks tracing nasty and irksome vocabulary words to create the ultimate study list for GRE and SAT warriors. They have now released a family of Worldlist apps: GRE wordlist(800 words), SAT wordlist, and Wordlist Pro(4000+ words). All have garnered glowing reviews. Check them out at http://wordlist.tintash.com

But this is just the beginning for the little startup that could. Keep an eye out for more goodies from these guys at www.tintash.com. And do email them at allEars@tintash.com. They promise to reply.