Prom dresses breaking the bank? Bay Area teens have an app for that


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 10 May 2018

Riya Gupta, 17, left, and Nishka Ayyar, 16, of Saratoga, shows off their website and app their built at Ayyar's home in Saratoga, Calif., on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The junior high school students built the PromElle app designed for renting prom dresses to and from their users. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Two years ago, Nishka Ayyar was struggling, like many of her friends, to find a dress to wear to her first homecoming dance. 

The dresses she saw in Bay Area stores and even online were too pricey for something she didn't think she would wear again, particularly since as a member of the homecoming court she needed something to match the green and yellow colour scheme. 

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