Aman Kumar Happy

  What losing at Genesis 2026 taught me about business, confidence, and the gap between an engineer and a founder. There are some days when winning feels normal. And then there are days when losing teaches you more than winning ever could. Today was one of those days. We finished 4th among 40+ teams from across Bihar at a business idea competition at Alliance University . Only a few places separated us from the top. And the reward was not just a trophy or certificate. A sponsored ticket to Bangalore was waiting for the top positions. We were just three steps away. And that hurts. It started with confidence Going into the competition, I was honestly very confident. Not because I thought we were the smartest people in the room. But because we had already worked on our idea, questioned it, refined it, tested different angles, prepared the pitch, and built a story around it. I genuinely believed: “We are making it to the top.” That confidence wasn't fake. But maybe, in some ways, it ...

I Was Going to Banka. I Wasn't Planning to Win. 19 September 2026 Today, my team and I were heading to Government Engineering College, Banka, for a hackathon. And honestly, when I left, winning was not really the plan. A senior I respect had invited me, so I decided to go with my friends. My expectations were pretty simple: attend the hackathon, meet some new people, see a different college, and experience another part of Bihar. There was another reason I was looking forward to the trip. I haven't travelled much around Bihar. So for me, Banka was not just a hackathon venue. It was another city, another campus, another engineering college, and another group of students. I had always been curious about how other government engineering colleges in Bihar look, how students work, what their environment feels like, and how different it might be from ours. At that point, I was honestly more curious about the journey than the result. You Don't Have to Prove Yourself Everywhere Ther...

I Came to Engineering College to Become an Engineer — Not Just a GATE Aspirant By Aman Kumar Happy September 10, 2026 There are some things you don't say immediately. You think about them. You ignore them for a while. You try to convince yourself that maybe you're looking at things from the wrong angle. Then, slowly, after enough experiences pile up, you realise there's something you need to say. I've been thinking about my engineering college journey for a long time. About what I expected when I entered B.Tech CSE. About what I actually found. About the kind of engineer I want to become. And about one question that keeps coming back to me: What does engineering really mean? When I got admission into B.Tech Computer Science Engineering, my expectations were pretty simple. I wanted to learn engineering. I wanted to build things that were actually useful. I wanted to understand modern technologies, participate in hackathons, find internships, connect with people from star...

3 Attempts, 2 Opportunities, 1 Dream: Building a Startup from Bihar If someone had told me a few months ago that I would start seeing rejection as a part of my progress, I probably would have laughed. I used to think rejection meant I wasn't good enough. Today, I don't see it that way anymore. This is my third attempt . In my first attempt, I reached the interview stage but got rejected. In my second attempt, I was rejected in the first round. And now, in my third attempt, I have been kept under review . Honestly, I am happy. Not because I got selected. I haven't. I am happy because when I compare myself today with the person who made the first attempt, I can clearly see the difference. I have learned more. I have built more. I have met more people. I understand the startup ecosystem better. And most importantly, I haven't stopped trying. That's what this post is really about. Not success. Progress. I Want to Build, Not Just Talk About Building Over the last few mon...

There are some things in life that you don’t actually stop believing in. You just stop working on them. And for some time, you convince yourself that you have moved on. But somewhere inside, that thing is still there. For the last two years, I wanted to become a startup founder. Not because it sounded cool. At least, I don’t think so. I genuinely wanted to build something of my own, create something useful, lead people, solve problems and see an idea become real. But the problem was, I wanted to become a founder before I was ready to handle what being a founder actually required. I had the dream. I had the excitement. I had the confidence. But practically? I had very little. Not enough money. Not enough knowledge. Not enough connections. Not enough clarity. And honestly, I was very rigid about my idea. I thought I needed everything to be perfect before starting. So I kept waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Then engineering college happened. And somewhere in between assignments, mat...

One year ago, I walked into a Salesforce event in Patna simply as an audience member . I had no idea that the same community would become such an important part of my journey. On 9 August 2026 , I returned to the same community to celebrate the 1st Anniversary of Salesforce User Group Patna — but this time, as a Core Team member . And honestly, that transition means more to me than the anniversary itself. How it started When I attended the first event, I didn't really know where this community would take me. I was simply curious. That day, I made my first connections with Gokul Ojha Sir, Deepak Sir, Rajnish Sir and Swati Agarwal Ma'am . Then came one event after another. I kept attending, meeting people, learning from conversations and slowly becoming more involved. Eventually, I started working with Ankit and Sukesh for the community. Looking back, it wasn't one big moment that changed everything. It was the small interactions and every event that gradually pu...