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When a Class Project Became a Company

StartupDemo Writer — Meera R.15 Jul 2026 5 min readVidya Vihar Central University (Demo)
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A semester assignment, an understanding mentor, and twelve months of saying "what if".

The brief was simple: propose a solution to a local problem. The submission was due Friday. The company, as it turned out, was due a year later.

This demo story tracks the strange, wonderful path from assignment to incorporation — including the moment the team realised their classmates were genuinely their first paying users.

Their advice to other student founders is refreshingly unglamorous: finish the assignment first. Then keep going. [Demo story.]