TrackMy Tech is bootstrapped. No investors. No term sheet framed on the wall. Just the founders, the product and a lot of jugaad. Say "bootstrapped" and some people look at you as if you'd said you walk to work in the rain by choice. So here's what...

On 18 September 2026 I was the resource person for a workshop called "Basic Python for Financial Analysis". The audience was B.Com Hons. students at Ethiraj College for Women. A few years ago I was a bio-maths student. Now I was the one at the front...

When I'm stuck badly enough, I call Arun. He's our CTO. He's the one person I trust to pick up at any hour. In the night I broke productionhttps://www.rahuldk.in/blog/the-night-i-broke-production, he got a short section. Four lines and a photo. This...

I built the Track My Academy mobile apps myself. Both of them. Android and iOS. The Android app is live in production. The iOS app is coming soon. That second line is the honest one. It's also the one every solo founder ends up writing at some poin...

In class 12, I was a bio-maths student. Biology and maths. The combination that says, "I haven't decided yet." Then I ended up switching from biology to computer science. No plan, no grand vision, no robot built from spare parts at age nine. This p...

Cover photo: Mohammad Rahmanihttps://unsplash.com/@afgprogrammer on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/laptop-displaying-code-and-steaming-mug-LrxSl4ZxoRs Claude Code and Bolt made coding agents look easy. You type a sentence, and a model reads you...

An earlier post ended with a promise. Sort of. In the night I broke productionhttps://www.rahuldk.in/blog/the-night-i-broke-production, an expired SSL certificate on our backend domain failed silently. It took us about four hours to find it. I staye...

Cover photo: Mirea Mazzeihttps://unsplash.com/@startglobal96 on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/a-large-room-filled-with-lots-of-tables-and-chairs-d1Lp7juy6JU On 8 and 9 October, I was on a hackathon jury. Me. The guy who used to be on the othe...

Cover photo: Evan Marvellhttps://unsplash.com/@evanmarvell on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/two-men-at-a-table-with-a-laptop-uzBZnacIKgQ On 8 and 9 October, I sat on the other side of the table. I was on the jury of a hackathon at VISTAS. It ...

Cover photo: Vitaly Garievhttps://unsplash.com/@silverkblack on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/professor-lecturing-to-students-in-a-classroom-6jmCztFHGQM In my first year of college, I got an internship. At least, that's what I called it. I pai...

Let me confess something. Early on, we had dozens of email accounts. Not for spam. Not for anything shady. For free AI trials. This post is about learning AI coding tools as a student. No budget. No clue. Lots of inboxes. It's also about what that c...

We are gathered here today to remember smart ball v1. It was a football. It had smart football sensors inside. It never shipped. Rest in peace, little guy. This is the eulogy, and also a beginner's guide to why hardware is hard. If you have ever wa...

Every founder has a moment where they say, "Fine. I'll do it myself." Mine came with a very specific smell. The smell of PHP and a design from another decade. This post is about outsourcing app development vs building it yourself. I've done the firs...

Cover photo: Adrià Crehuet Canohttps://unsplash.com/@acrehuet98 on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/children-playing-soccer-LIhB1mAGhY Most startup stories begin with a vision. Mine began with a complaint. Not even my complaint. Two other people...

Building a product is one job. Keeping it alive is a completely different job. Nobody warns you about the second one. Or they do, and you don't listen. I didn't listen. This post is my production outage lessons, learnt the expensive way. One backen...