Q3 2023
Oct 5, 2023
The past 3 months have been a rollercoaster of emotions. Embrace yourself, as I walk you through each one of them.
Spark ⚡️
To build a community of like-minded indie-hackers from Twitter, I along with 2 incredible folks - Michael & Andrew started Spark in July. A discord community -of builders who like to build cool stuff- where we host hackathons!
It brings me immense joy to share with y'all that within the course of 3 months, we’ve gone from 0 to 430+ members -on our discord- and hosted the Spark July & August Hackathon with 200+ participants, 66+ submissions, and $3,000 in sponsorship.
I also participated in buildspace s4 season for Spark but couldn’t make it to the Top 32. Here’s my progress video for the season. We also launched Spark on Producthunt and ranked #10 receiving 185 upvotes 🎉
We’re on track for hosting our first offline hackathon at Bubble India Summit in Bangalore (registrations are open!!) partnering with Bluelearn & Zeroic as Organizing partners with over $6,5000+ in prizes 🚀.
For the next Quarter, we aim to cross 1,500+ builders on our server along with hosting hackathons with 2,000+ participants and building relations with amazing folks along the way.
School 📚
I started class 11 academic standard in June and since then it’s been a hectic journey, managing coaching classes (for jee prep), school studies, and Spark.
Transitioning from class 10 to class 11 studies was a tight slap on my time management skills, with 10x more syllabus condensed in the same time, I started making calendar schedules and attempted to follow them 🗓️
After studying 7 days straight, 2 all-nighters and 1 skipped breakfast I gave my first quarterly school exams and to my most disappointment scored 74% (got 95% in 10th class).
But as they say, disappointment is relative. Even though I scored 74%, the majority of folks in my school got marks in the range of 50-60. Putting me in the top 10-15 students out of 153. Hurray!!
I’ve my mid-terms starting on 10th October and i’m busy completing this newsletter instead of studying. So go ahead and like this post everyone.
1 like = 10 more marks in mid-terms
TKS 🚀
It was the first time in summer when on a call with Heshan Gambhir I discovered what TKS was and applied it right away. And was fortunate enough to get a full-ride scholarship and join the NN Cohort. It’s been exactly one month since TKS started and I find myself looking forward to it each Sunday 😀
I’ve been struggling to articulate how to define “TKS”. In the same way, I had difficulty describing river rafting in the cold rivers of Sikkim, and watching sunrise at 5 a.m. in lush green Sahyadri valleys in Maharashtra. It’s like an experience, you’ve to experience it to know it.
But I’ll try to give my best shot at defining the TKS experience-
“ TKS to me means meeting a bunch of driven folks spread across the world working towards their own passions coming together each week to interact and learn at TKS ”
At TKS, I’ve decided to focus in Artificial Intelligence, and here’s my learn article on the Inner Workings of Sentiment analysis. I’d love to hear your guy’s feedback on it.
At the last session of September month, I had a deadline to make an explainer video on any topic within 1 hour. It was a super fun challenge packed with learnings as I explored how to shoot better videos, edit, add captions, and generate stock images on the runway 2 gen model.
You can check the video here.
General Updates 🎯
Started up Zeducate with Jasjeet with the aim of introducing young students to the world of building early on.
Starting Localhost with Kei to fund early-stage startups.
If you guys know any good VC/Angel investors, I’d love to chat with them and learn more about the industry.
Songs 🎶
My taste in songs changed in these 3 months from romantic to action (don't ask me why!)
3 Playlists I’ve been listening to -
Movies 🍿
On my way back from school I got hit by a bike resulting in a 3-day bed-rest due to injury on my leg. So me being me, binged all action movies
Jason Bourne (All) - Prime Video
Mission Impossible (All) - Prime Video
That’s all from me in Q3 everyone! I hope you enjoyed reading this post.
TLDR: All in all Q3 2023 marked the start of a ton of new beginnings in my life and I hope to continue to progress in these endeavors and scale them to new heights in the next Quarter