mehul srivastava 🧙🏼 (aka mxdvf)

Since you took the time to visit this page, I feel obliged to tell you something personal you're definitely not going to find anywhere else:

26 May 2020 was the day I wrote my first line of code.

But that's not what was supposed to happen.

For the entirety of my childhood, I wanted to become a doctor. I was asked what I wanted to become at a school ceremony once, I didn't even have to think about it: "a neurosurgeon".

In high school, I cleared this competitive state-level exam and while preparing for it, I noticed there were very few affordable resources available for students. I wanted to change that.

My solution was simple: create study material, sell it through Telegram and manage everything manually. (spoiler: it later turned into a profitable venture, imagine!)

When I showed the plan to my parents, they asked a question that changed the absolute trajectory of my life: Why don't you just make a website for it?

Wait you can make one? Don't they just...exist? Like who do I call at Google to get a website? Which office hands out URLs? ...continue reading