First year · Computer Science · Thapar

I’m 18 and I already run a business.

I run a freelance dev studio with 100+ five-star reviews, I co-founded a web studio, and I fund my own expenses. Now I want to build with a team.

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5.0¹from 100+ client reviews Level 2²Fiverr seller since 2023 2023³freelancing since 2⁴businesses running right now

Founder · 2023 → now

MysteryStudiosmy freelance dev studio

I build and launch multiplayer game servers for clients around the world.

For a long time I built every server by hand, piece by piece.

MysteryStudios

Once I learned to work with AI tools, I automated most of that process, so work that used to eat my days now takes a fraction of the time.

MysteryStudios

MysteryStudios is where most of my income comes from. Clients bring me an idea for a game server, and I hand back something ready to launch: the gameplay systems, custom features, menus, in-game economy and the online store that makes it money. Most of my clients find me on Fiverr, where I’m a Level 2 seller with a 5.0 rating across more than a hundred reviews, from clients in the US, the UK and Europe.

Running it taught me the parts of building that school doesn’t: scoping work with a client, quoting a price, hitting deadlines, and fixing things when they break the night before launch.

Visit mysterystudios.xyz See reviews on Fiverr

Co-founder

pagewallawebsites for local businesses

Websites for businesses that only exist on Instagram.

Plenty of good local businesses — clinics, salons, gyms — have a great Instagram and no website, so they don’t show up when someone searches Google. pagewalla builds them a proper site in about a week. We’ve already built one for Shri Raam Engineering, a crane engineering company in Gurugram.

I’ve made the cold calls myself, and the ones that ended in “no thanks” taught me more about selling than anything else this year.

Visit pagewalla.site See Shri Raam Engineering

pagewalla.site

shriraamengineering.in

Side project · macOS

Vesperan AI assistant running on my own subscription

An AI assistant that lives on my screen and talks back.

I found Clicky, an open-source AI screen companion, and made my own version of it. The main thing I changed: instead of paying for API usage, Vesper runs on my existing Claude subscription. I also gave it a personality. It’s blunt, a little sarcastic, and tells me when I’m wrong.

Based on the open-source Clicky project.

How I build

I don’t write most of my code by hand. I direct AI agents that do: I decide what to build, write the brief, check what comes back, and push it until it’s right. That’s how a first-year ships things that would normally need a whole team.

I learned to work this way by doing it the slow way first. I used to build game servers entirely by hand, and once I understood the work, I automated most of it. I’m learning the fundamentals properly too, which is why I’m doing Harvard’s CS50 on the side, on top of college.

Building with AI: Claude Code; Claude Design; agent skills and subagents; MCP tools; briefing and directing agents
Code: C (college); CS50
Business: 100+ five-star reviews on Fiverr; clients in the US, the UK and Europe; scoping and quoting projects; cold calls and selling

A bit about me

I’m a first-year computer science student at Thapar. I’ve been obsessed with tech for as long as I can remember. If something new comes out, I want to know how it works and what I can build with it.

I started freelancing in school. Since then I’ve earned around ₹12 lakh, and these days I pay my own expenses. My first iPhone was bought with money I made myself, and that still feels good to say.

Not everything worked. I tried dropshipping and it didn’t stick. That’s fine. I’d rather try five things and keep two than sit around waiting for the perfect idea.

I invest in the stock market.
I read about new tech the way some people follow cricket.

What I’d bring to GDG

So far I’ve mostly built alone. I want to build with people who care about this as much as I do.

What I’d bring: I know how to take something from an idea to a live product before the deadline, and I know how to talk to the people it’s for. I’d love to run hands-on sessions on building with AI tools — take a room from an empty folder to a live website in one evening.