Mayur's Tech Journey

  🎂 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...