I built this because I was annoyed.

I was paying monthly for a study library seat, and I still couldn't reliably tell if a seat would be free when I showed up. No way to check online, no way to book ahead just calling around or walking in and hoping. I figured if this was frustrating me, it was frustrating thousands of students across India who rent library/reading-room seats the same way.

So I built Studoo and Padhloo two connected products at Aithro -

Padhloo (student side): search study spaces by city/price/amenities, see a live seat map, request a specific seat for 1-12 months, and track your bookings, dues, and payments in one place. It also gamifies actually showing up — QR check-in/out, study streaks, points, badges, a leaderboard — so students stay consistent, not just book-and-forget.

Studoo (owner side): the dashboard library/reading-room owners use to list their space, manage seat inventory and pricing per slot, approve or reject booking requests, chase due payments automatically, and see real analytics (occupancy, revenue, which slots to reprice). Free tier + two paid plans. You can see product demo video here - https://youtu.be/9Yex73MIYqQ?si=jfWqLxisRTM9N_28

I designed and built the full product end-to-end — the booking/approval workflow, the seat-and-slot inventory model, the QR-based geofenced attendance system, the payments/dues tracking, the subscription tiers, and the whole gamification layer (points, streaks, badges) on the student side.

Where it stands:

Got our first paying customer, a real library owner in Patna paying for the Growth plan, which is the moment this stopped being a side project and started being a business.

Reached the Grand Finale of Empresario 2026 (IIT Kharagpur E-Cell), selected out of 3,000+ global registrations.

Won the Platinum Jubilee Innovation Challenge (Deep Tech) at IIT Kharagpur's 75th anniversary event.

What I'm good at, based on building this: turning a messy real-world workflow (owner approves seat → student pays offline → both sides need to trust the same numbers) into a system that's simple enough for a small business owner with no tech background to actually use — while still handling the edge cases (partial payments, overlapping slots, expiring bookings, geofenced check-ins) correctly under the hood.

If you're a small business or founder who needs a web app or an AI-automation workflow built and shipped fast, not just prototyped that's exactly the kind of problem I like solving. Happy to talk about your project.