The full story, written honestly.

01 · A government school in Pali

I grew up in Pali, Rajasthan, and studied in a Hindi-medium government school under the RBSE board. In my 10th boards I scored 46.23% — with a compartment in Mathematics. Five marks out of eighty. I cried for a month. In small towns, that's the kind of result people quietly decide your whole life from.

Two years later I scored 84.20% in 12th — third in my school. Nothing about me had changed except the method: I found a teacher on YouTube, built my own study system, and did the reps. That lesson — find the method, do the reps, ignore the noise — became the pattern for everything that followed.

02 · A teenager with a camera

Between 2016 and 2019 I ran my first YouTube channel — first named Technical Guruji, later Technical Kashyap. Those videos are private now, and honestly, that's fine. What survived was the camera comfort, the teaching instinct, and an obsession with fixing things that were broken.

03 · Backdroid — and 45 projects after it

In January 2020 I taught myself website development and article writing from scratch. By May, Backdroid.com was live — an Android blog answering the questions people actually type into Google. AdSense revenue came within six months; the business was profitable within a year. Bootstrapped from a small town: no funding, no office, no safety net. I launched its YouTube channel, Learn & Solve with Backdroid, alongside it — it grew past 6 million views and 11,000+ subscribers.

Then I repeated the playbook. Again and again. In total I've built 45+ projects — more than 30 of them for a US audience — across tech, government jobs, gaming, devotion and agriculture. Until 2023, every single article was written by me, by hand. From 2023, I brought AI into the workflow — with proper learning, not shortcuts. Along the way came brand collaborations with FixThePhoto, SuferVPN and others, and a devotional Instagram community that crossed 28 million lifetime views.

04 · The award, the grant, the stage

At the iStart Rajasthan School & Rural Acceleration program in Jaipur, I took 1st prize — recognized alongside CM Ashok Gehlot and Shark Tank India judge Namita Thapar, with two of my projects, OyeNaukri and MistriBulao, nominated for a government grant. For a kid who once scored 5/80 in Math, standing on that stage meant something no certificate can capture.

05 · The exits — and the zero

Over 2025 I sold most of the portfolio — Backdroid, guiding-insta.com and more — to new owners. Building things from nothing that other people pay to acquire is the exit most independent publishers never reach, and I'm proud of it. But I'll be honest about the other half too: Google's algorithm era humbled independent publishers everywhere, and after the exits, my chart genuinely read zero. No traffic empire. No team. One person and a keyboard.

Every chart that hits zero is allowed to rise again.

06 · Now — Dehradun, MonkInsight, and राघव

Today I'm in Dehradun, building again — in public, one day at a time. The new project is MonkInsight, and the new channel is वार्ता, where I share the daily life and lessons of the restart. And when the building day ends, I write poetry under the name राघव — verses about time, loss, faith and starting over.

What I stand by