2025 | Wrapped — A Build Log

Posted on Dec 31, 2025 • 2 min read
tl;dr: A build log for 2025.

[This piece is unfinished.]

January

Mostly buried in 1st semester finals.
No builds.

February

Participated in 1 hackathon and finished Top 10.
Good experience.

March

Spent most of the month learning Python frameworks and the basics of ML.

Built small predictive projects:

  • Crop prediction
  • Stroke prediction

Got into NeuralHive, the AIML club at PESU EC Campus.

Tried getting into Web3, realized it didn’t fit alongside academics. Dropped it early.

April

Applied to many state level hackathons. Got rejected by all of them.

May

Went little deeper into NLP.

Learned:

  • GloVe embeddings
  • Cosine similarity
  • Vector-based matching

Built an Activity Recommender CLI using these concepts.

June

End-sem exams.
Low output month. Expected.

July

Holidays. Finally time to build.

Built PESXchange, a C2C platform with friends to exchange items within the college campus.

Also got in touch with an early-stage startup idea.

July–November

Worked on an agentic AI desktop app.

  • Reached 350+ waitlist signups
  • Got traction on X and Instagram
  • Acquired

August

3rd semester started.
Kept upskilling alongside classes — no stopping from here.

September

Balanced startup work with college.

Went to a college hackathon with an ambitious idea:
an AI-powered dashboard for PESU Academy (think Cursor for VS Code, but for the student portal).

The idea was too big for 24 hours. Couldn’t build it.

October

Applied to ACM and HSP clubs at PESU EC.
Got into both — something I’d looked up to since first year :)

November

A messy month.

  • Multiple projects
  • Exams and assignments

Still kept building

December

End-sem exams, (and I have no clue how all the best ideas come during exams itself)

Started documenting my learnings here -> What I’m Learning

Notion Journal

  • Went on a project streak
  • Built a site using Zola SSG with a custom theme
  • Open-sourced it under MIT
  • Applied to the Netlify OSS Program → approved

Other builds :

Kept posting small wins on X.

Also got on a call with:

  • an Aussie founder (got some gigs)
  • a VPN SaaS founder from Russia
  • a Bussiness School student from Masters’ Union