Saichandan
I'm a first-year at IIT Hyderabad. Most of school I spent on math olympiads — five of them, up to INMO. These days I write and teach competitive math with a few edtech teams, and use it to figure out what to build next.
My early school years — academics, culturals, sports, a bit of everything. Where I got comfortable juggling more than one thing at a time.
Where I got into olympiads — SOF IMO, AMTI, IOQM. This is when problem-solving stopped being homework and started being the thing I actually enjoyed.
Two years pointed at JEE. I also kept at the olympiads and qualified for INMO on my last attempt.
Where I am now. I spend it building campus tools, running track, and writing most of it down as I go.
– Jan 2024
Olympiad Math Creator
Made video solutions for olympiad-level problems and worked alongside their educators to shape the content for exam aspirants.
– Present
Assistant Content Creator
I help build JEE math content — breaking down the harder ideas into something students can actually follow.
Olympiad Math Trainer
Trained students for olympiads and JEE, writing practice sets aimed at their weak spots in problem-solving.
Physics Doubt Solver
Cleared the interviews for a role helping JEE students work through physics doubts at scale.
Freelance Math Expert
Took on a freelance content role writing accurate, well-structured math learning material.
JEE Maths Mentor
Brought on as a JEE math tutor to guide students through prep and problem-solving.
Outreach & Collaborations
Handled speaker outreach and external partnerships for the campus TEDx.
Assistant Marketing Manager
Ran marketing for E-Summit, the campus entrepreneurship event — outreach and campaigns across IIT-H.
VIP Campus Partner
Led Comet browser adoption at IIT-H — brought in 1,500+ qualified student leads and ended up among the top campus partners in the country.
Built for Clients
I build WordPress sites for people — custom themes, stores, course platforms. Around 100 of them over the last six years, for clients in India and abroad.
A custom build for Tharun, a well-known Indian YouTube creator. It handles structured course delivery — enrollment, video lessons, and progress tracking — designed to hold up as the audience grows.
I kept it fast and clean, and matched the whole thing to his brand.
Built on WooCommerce with custom categories, advanced filtering, and a streamlined checkout. I also set up order management and inventory visibility so the client could run it themselves.
A listing platform where each college profile is filterable by branch, location, fees, and placement stats. I built it on Advanced Custom Fields with a custom query layer, so the client can edit everything without touching code.
An LMS built for JEE aspirants — subject-wise modules, ordered lesson flows, and progress indicators for long prep cycles. I designed it distraction-free so it holds up over long study sessions.
Built Myself
Products I built on my own — usually because I needed them to exist and no one else was making them. A couple ended up reaching tens of thousands of students.
I built the whole thing solo — design, code, data, and getting it in front of people. It covers curriculum breakdowns, AI-replaceability scores, recruiter insights, and a comparison engine across 220+ branches in India.
It's one of the more detailed resources of its kind here, with 20,000+ people using it.
campusloom.in ↗The first version ran as a community platform where aspirants could talk to verified seniors for unfiltered advice. It's what proved the idea was worth building properly — which became 2.0.
My first real project — a structured JEE notes repository I started at 14 with no team and no money. It grew to 30,000+ users through search and word of mouth.
It's where everything after this started.
I built Learnoclub on top of NOTE-IT — notes, resources, and structured content for JEE aspirants across the country. It reached 50,000+ monthly users at its peak, all without paid marketing.
I wound it down after joining IIT-H to focus on CampusLoom.
I built this over a first-year break to connect incoming students with verified seniors at IITs and NITs. It was set up for real guidance on college decisions, branch choices, and prep — a gap I didn't see anyone else covering at the time.
IIT Hyderabad
Everything here started with a problem I ran into on campus — a broken workflow, a missing tool. So I built the fix on my own time, servers, and domains.
There was no central place to find past exam papers, so I made one — a searchable catalog filterable by branch, year, and course.
It's grown to 1,500+ users across departments and is still in daily use.
resourcehub.iith.online ↗
Merch orders were being taken through Google Forms. I replaced the whole thing — Razorpay payments, automated order reports, and a clean storefront for students and faculty.
Built solo in about three weeks, end to end.
store.iith.online ↗
Mess registration was running on an old COVID vaccination portal that had long outlived its purpose. I built a dedicated flow for registration, allocation, and records.
The athletics program had no public presence, so I gave the team a permanent home — medal records, event highlights, athlete profiles, and an achievements gallery.
I built it as Athletics Coordinator to give the program the visibility it had earned on the field.
athletics.iith.online ↗
Requests for equipment, bookings, and facilities were being raised informally with nothing tracked. I built a ticketing system where students submit queries, track status, and actually get resolution.
Team selection for the league was being done manually over projected Google Slides. I rebuilt it as an IPL-style live auction — real-time bidding, live purse tracking, team dashboards, and dynamic athlete cards.
It turned a routine selection into an event people actually showed up for.
When the ERP portal went down, I started rebuilding it from scratch and got a working prototype covering the core student-facing functionality.
It's the most complex thing I've built so far — I paused it on infrastructure limits, not technical ones.
Track
I sprint and long jump for IIT Hyderabad — medals across inter-IIT, inter-university, and open meets. And most other sports on campus when I get the chance. Drag the medals below.
YouTube
I make videos about student life, the tools I use, and the things I've tried building — mostly for students trying to figure out the same stuff I did.
How I Got Hired by Vedantu at 17
The story of getting hired as a student and teaching on a top edtech platform at 17 — my most-watched video.
My Apple Setup at 19
How I put together an Apple setup with money I earned myself — no shortcuts, just consistency.