Tools: We Built India's First Self-Paced Learning Platform for Government Exam Students — 2 Year+. 5 People. 1000+ Articles.

The Problem We Saw ## What We Built — Courage Library ## What 1 Year of Real Work Looks Like ## The Tech Behind It ## Why This Matters for India ## What I Personally Learned ## What I'm Building Now ## To Every Student Reading This ## Let's Connect Let me be honest with you. This is not a "I coded this in a weekend" story. This is a "5 people, 2 year+ , countless nights, 1000+ articles written, and a live product used by real students" story. I'm Satyam Kumar — B.Tech CSE (AI & ML) student at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara. Every year, millions of Indian students prepare for SSC, Banking, Railway and Defence government exams. These are not easy exams. They require months — sometimes years — of consistent, structured preparation. But the resources available? Either too expensive. Too unorganized. Or built for profit, not for the student. Our founder Jan Mohammad saw this gap clearly. And he brought together a team of 5 to fix it. I was one of those 5. Courage Library is India's first self-paced learning platform built exclusively for government exam aspirants. Not a YouTube channel. Not a PDF dump. A real, structured, self-paced learning platform — like Coursera, but built specifically for SSC, Banking, Railway and Defence students in India. Here's what we built over 12 months: People talk about "building in public" like it's glamorous. It is not. Here is what it actually looked like for us: Writing article number 1 was exciting. Writing article number 100 was discipline. Writing article number 500 was belief. Writing article number 1000+ was proof. Every week for a year, our team showed up. Someone wrote content. Someone built features. Someone tested. Someone fixed what broke. Someone reached out to students and listened to their feedback. No funding. No investors. No viral moment. Just 5 people who believed India's government exam students deserved something better. Stack we used to build and run Courage Library: Simple choices, deliberately made. When you're building for students in tier 2 and tier 3 cities across India, performance and simplicity matter more than fancy frameworks. Every year, over 2 crore students appear for government exams in India. Most of them come from small towns. Most of them cannot afford ₹5,000/month coaching fees. Most of them are studying on a ₹8,000 phone with limited data. Courage Library is built for them. Self-paced. Affordable. Structured. In their hands, on their phones, at their speed. We believe this is just the beginning. We are constantly improving the platform — adding more content, more features, better experience — with the goal of making Courage Library the best government exam preparation platform in India. That goal has not changed since day one. I joined this team as a developer. I left year one as a builder. There is a difference. A developer writes code. A builder ships things that work for real people. A builder sits with the frustration of a bug that breaks production at 11pm. A builder reads a student's message saying "I finally understood this topic" and feels something no classroom ever made them feel. Being part of Courage Library — alongside our founder Jan Mohammad and 3 other incredible teammates — taught me more about engineering, product thinking, and human empathy than any university course ever could. Alongside Courage Library, I have built: Medlyf — 10-minute medicine delivery PWA with real-time pharmacy price comparison, prescription verification, partner dashboards. Stack: React, Supabase, Google Maps, Razorpay. Safe Text Monitor — ML pipeline for multi-label toxic text classification using NLP, TF-IDF, Scikit-Learn on Kaggle Jigsaw dataset. DSA Visualizer — interactive algorithm animation tool built as my LPU Summer Training capstone. My full portfolio: 👉 https://satyamkumar-lpu.vercel.app If you are preparing for a government exam — SSC, Banking, Railway, Defence — go to couragelibrary.in. It was built for you. By people who genuinely care. If you are a developer in college wondering whether to build something real — do it. Do not wait for the perfect idea, the perfect team, or the perfect time. Start. Stay consistent. Ship. 1000 articles did not get written in one day. They got written one article at a time, every single day, for one full year. I'm Satyam Kumar — 3rd year B.Tech CSE (AI & ML) at LPU, open to AI/ML internships and full stack roles. 📧 [email protected] 💼 https://linkedin.com/in/satyamlpu 🐙 https://github.com/Satyam810 🌐 https://satyamkumar-lpu.vercel.app And if you want to see what we built together: https://couragelibrary.in Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse - 1000+ articles across multiple subjects — written, structured, and organized from scratch - Self-paced learning — students study at their own speed, on their own schedule - Lifetime access model — pay once, study forever. No monthly subscriptions draining student wallets - Per-student progress tracking — every student knows exactly where they stand - Razorpay payment gateway — real transactions, real revenue model - Supabase backend — authentication, database, file storage, all production-grade - Mobile-first UI — because 90% of our students are on phones, not laptops - Frontend — HTML, CSS, JavaScript (clean, fast, mobile-optimized) - Backend — Supabase (auth, database, storage) - Payments — Razorpay - Content — 1000+ hand-written, structured articles