I Started a Company the Same Month I Started College. Here's Why.

August 2025. Two things happened at the same time. I walked into Anna University, Chennai as a first-year Electronics Engineering (VLSI) student. And I started building what would eventually become SidhiLynx. Not because I had a plan. Because I had a problem in front of me and I could not look away from it. The Problem Nobody Was Solving Engineering colleges in India hand students a workflow that looks reasonable on paper. Assignments. Lab sessions. Submissions. Code and output — documented, dated, submitted. The reality is different. Our college ran a self-hosted Jupyter Lab environment on cheap virtual machines. Machines that crashed. Machines that went offline with no warning. Machines that were simply unavailable when students needed them most — right before a submission deadline. And here is the part that frustrated me most: not every student owns a laptop. In a batch of engineering students expected to submit code assignments, a significant number had no personal machine at all.