Mayur's Tech Journey

  The Main Branch and Me: What Git Teaches Us About Life Every day I solve a LeetCode problem. I create a branch, write code, commit, and merge it back to main . Then I move on to the next one. Lately, I've been thinking: this is exactly how life works too. The Permanent is Main In Git, there's only one truly permanent branch: main . Everything else is temporary. You create a feature branch to do something specific. You work on it. You test it. When it's ready, you merge it back into main . Then that branch can disappear — but the work stays. It's now part of the main timeline. Part of what gets carried forward. All other branches — they're important while you're on them, but they're always meant to be temporary. They have a purpose. Then they're done. I think this is how human life works. We Are Feature Branches You're born. You're created for a reason — to do something, to learn something, to build something. You work on that purpose....

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Mayur's Tech Journey. 🚀 There is a specific kind of satisfaction that comes not from building something big, but from building something correct . Something where you did not just make it work, but you actually thought about why it should work that way, and then designed it accordingly. This blog is about that feeling. This is the story of Inventrack — my latest project, and honestly, the one I am most technically proud of so far. But before I tell you what Inventrack does, let me tell you why it exists. Because the "why" here is the whole point. 🏪 A Real Problem That Nobody Talks About Think about a medical shop. Or a grocery store. Or a warehouse. Every day, they are receiving new stock of the same products. Same medicine, new batch. Same biscuit packet, new expiry date. Items piling up from multiple purchase orders, each with a different expiry date, all sitting together on the same shelf. Now when a customer comes i...

  🎂 I Completed 19 Years and Entered My 20s Today—Here's What I Earned Instead of Celebrations Published: June 19, 2026 Today is my 20th birthday, and honestly, I'm not celebrating it. Most people would find that strange. At 20, you're supposed to throw a party, go out with friends, do something that screams "I'm celebrating life!" But there's a heaviness to today for me that has nothing to do with sadness and everything to do with realization. I had a dream to celebrate this milestone at PICT—one of India's most prestigious engineering colleges. And I didn't make it there. That thought sits with me every birthday. Not as bitterness, but as a constant reminder of the gap between dreams and reality. Yet, as I sat down today to reflect on what the last 20 years have actually given me, something unexpected happened. I found peace. After nearly two hours of honest, critical thinking about my journey—from a shy kid in a village to a first-year engineer...

  🎓 I Built ScholarDesk During My Exam Preparation and It Has 16 Real Users Today Hello everyone! Welcome back to Mayur's Tech Journey. 🚀 Some stories begin with a plan. This one began with an email from a stranger. I want to tell you about ScholarDesk. About how it started as a reaction, turned into a CLI tool running quietly in a terminal, then became a full stack web application, then got deployed live on the internet, and then ended up in the hands of 16 real users who are not engineers, not my teammates, not people who owe me anything. Just real people who found it useful. But before I get to any of that, let me set the scene properly. Because the context is everything here. 📖 The Scene: PL of End Semester Exams Engineering students in Maharashtra know what "PL" feels like. The Preliminary Leave period before end semester exams is supposed to be sacred study time. Notes out. Syllabus open. Revision mode fully activated. I was in that exact period. End sem exams of...

  🧠 My First Hackathon: Bugs, Breakthroughs, and the Best Classroom I Never Expected Hello everyone! Welcome back to Mayur's Tech Journey. 🚀 You know, there are some experiences that a textbook simply cannot replicate. There are some lessons that only happen when you are sitting in a room, a deadline is six hours away, your app has just crashed in front of a judge, and the only option left is to fix it — right now, under pressure, with no tutorial to guide you. This blog is about one of those experiences. This is the story of my first ever hackathon. And I am going to tell you every part of it — the overconfidence, the confusion, the crash, the panic, the recovery, and finally, the realization that hit me afterward. Pull up a chair. This one is personal. ☕ 📖 The Context: Exams Were Right Around the Corner Before I get into the hackathon itself, let me set the stage honestly. Our Second Semester End Semester Examinations were scheduled right after the hackathon. So when the AI Cl...