“Qlan plays a pivotal role in a gamers’ journey and experience”, Mr Sagar Nair – Qlan, a mobile networking platform, will allow users to create custom profiles, sync their game statistics, connect and communicate with other gamers, create teams, share gaming content, and more. Qlan is designed to unify and engage gamers and esports enthusiasts, build a credible community and facilitate the creation of an industry complementing gaming ecosystem. We have talked with Mr Sagar Nair, Co-Founder & CEO, Qlan regarding the app and how it connects gamers with each other. For Future updates on Gaming and Esports follow InsideSport.IN
Question- Qlan is a Gamer’s Social Network that connects gamers. In what aspect does it help a gamer?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair– Qlan aims to do way more than just connect gamers. The platform aims to provide solutions and build a thriving ecosystem for the gaming & esports community. Qlan helps connect like-minded gamers, features personalized gaming content, and gamers can showcase their in-game stats, get discovered, and seek opportunities. It simplifies the process of entering & exploring the gaming & esports industry.
Question- The Esports and Gaming market is growing day by day in India so what is the role of Qlan towards its growth?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair – Qlan contributes to the gaming market by its unique design to build a robust set of features that bring together various aspects that contribute majorly to the gaming community like tournament operators, content creators, gaming professionals, esports organizations, and gamers, both professional and casual.
Question- How does the platform function – how much tech is involved in building a platform like this?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair – The application currently runs on react-native. One can expect ML & AI to play a crucial role as we scale and cater to a growing user base. Qlan features at its core are built to be data-driven, games played, in-game stats, language proficiency, content preferences, etc will play a pivotal role in a gamers’ journey and experience on Qlan.
Question- How does the app ensure the authenticity of the esports players?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair – The app like most social media platforms will provide a verification badge to authentic and known esports athletes. Furthermore, in-game stats are onboarded via API’s that gather data from a gamers profile, and for mobile gamers, their in-game screenshot is a must to sync games.
Question- Which sectors of esports that the platform promises to support?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair – The esports industry has multiple critical stakeholders which include gamers, squads, pro athletes, content creators, esports orgs, tournament organizers, skilled professionals, publishers, and more. Each of these user groups seeks something that is made available from within the ecosystem. The vision for Qlan is to build a community that unites each of these stakeholders which in turn will provide opportunities and solutions in an organic and engaging manner.
Question- How does the platform enable professionals to seek job and career opportunities and help gaming organizations reach out to a targeted audience, all within a single ecosystem?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair – Qlan as a platform has a whole module under development that governs the professional side of esports that helps aspiring gamers reach out to esports organizations, professionals to discover opportunities. The major highlight in this is that the platform lets the user download a CV with just a click of a button and share it where the user needs to.
Question- As the app is still in its beta launch, how much traction has the app received till now and when can we expect the final launch?
Answer by Mr Sagar Nair – Qlan has 30K+ downloads with more registering every day. Currently being our launch market, Indians form the largest percentage of the user base but word of mouth among gamers active on Qlan has helped our community go global at this early stage, acquiring gamers from the USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, Singapore & Iraq among others. The full version update is just around the corner.
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