95% of Indians don't have a financial plan. We tried to change that.
And we made it to the National Semifinals of The @EconomicTimes ET GenAI Hackathon 2026.
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Accidentally rediscovered the intuition behind Digit DP before even learning it
While solving LeetCode 3753, I tried compressing ranges into digit-pattern blocks instead of brute forcing every number.
Didnโt survive the 10^15 constraints, but the idea was fun.
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TL;DR:โข Screen time up 43%โข Involuntary checking returnedโข "Saving" replaced actual learningโข Nighttime guilt ruined next-day focusThe app is too optimized for my brain to fight.
So, Iโm deleting Instagram again today.
I deleted Instagram for a whole month. My focus returned, and I finally started studying again.
Then, 7 days ago, I reinstalled it.The results of this 1-week experiment genuinely shocked me.
Here is the raw data on how fast a single app can wreck your brain
6. The Nighttime Loop:
Re-entering the comparison trap made me feel bad about myself. By nighttime, the guilt of "doing nothing productive for 3 days" crushed my confidence. This low energy carried over into the next morning, restarting the cycle.
5. The "Digital Hoarding" Trap:
I thought the app was helping me because I follow AI and tech accounts. In 7 days, I saved over 40 "important" reels. I never opened a single one. Saving content tricks your brain into feeling productive without doing any work.
4.The Involuntary Tap:
This part is scary: I found myself unlocking my phone to do something completely unrelated (like check a call), and my thumb would involuntarily open Instagram. Itโs pure subconscious muscle memory. The app owns the reflex.
3.Fractured Attention:
My productivity had massive momentum last month. This week, it fell to trash.Even when I force myself to sit down and study, I can't concentrate. The constant, twitchy urge to "just check for 5 seconds" acts like a physical magnet pulling at my focus.
2.The Death of Boredom:
When I didn't have the app, phone boredom forced me to look for stimulation elsewhere, which eventually made me study. But now, Boredom is impossible. Every empty second of my day is instantly consumed by the feed.
1.The Screen Time Spike:
Before downloading it again, my phone screen time averaged 2 hours and 56 minutes.Within 7 days of having Instagram back, it skyrocketed to 4 hours and 12 minutes. Nearly an hour and a half of my day vanished instantly.
AAAAA, Bro it sucks. I've been studying and practicing all week about this weeks weekly contest but I overslept and woke up at 9:45!!
ITS SO FRUSTRATING!!
last week i competed on my very first @LeetCode weekly contest. and got 18k rank. pretty bad ik..
i did practice some questions yesterday..lets see if i can perform better on sunday!!
Microsoft didn't cancel Claude Code because it was bad.
They canceled it because it was TOO GOOD.
Engineers loved it so much that 84-95% used it monthly. Costs hit $500-$2,000 per person. Uber's entire $3.4B AI budget evaporated in 4 months.
The finance department killed what the engineering department unanimously praised.
Read that story again slowly.
AI tools are now so productive that companies literally cannot afford to let their employees use them freely.
This is the most bullish signal for solopreneurs I've ever seen.
Big companies will throttle, restrict, and ration AI access to control costs. Their engineers will be stuck on watered-down internal tools.
Meanwhile, you're sitting at home with Pro access to every frontier model on the planet for the price of a Netflix subscription.
The playing field isn't leveling. It's inverting.
Imagine there are people out there who don't remember what they did 3 days earlier. Also there are people suffering from short term memory loss, forgetting where they were 4 hours ago and what they were doing.
I'm building something for them! It's really cool can't wait to show!