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About CodeStory
We're building the placement-readiness platform India's CS classrooms have been improvising without.
Every year, 1.5 million Indians graduate with a CS degree. Roughly four in ten won't be hired into the field they trained for. We think that's not a student problem — it's a teaching, measurement, and signal problem. CodeStory is our answer to all three.
Founding noteKept since day one
Why CodeStory exists
Every student we tutored could code. Almost none could interview. The gap was never knowledge — it was the room: speaking while typing, defending a choice, surviving a follow-up.
So we buildthe room, not another course
Measured byoffer letters, not watch time
SignedAnil · Anuraag
The problem
India is graduating coders faster than it's hiring them.
42%
of Indian engineers under-employed within a year of graduating
India Skills Report · 2025
1.5M
CS & allied graduates per year
AISHE · MoE · 2024
9%
of campus-grade dev roles go to Tier-2/3 colleges
NASSCOM hiring snapshot · 2025
The students aren't lazy. They've been told to "do LeetCode" — so they open 18 tabs at 1 a.m., copy a solution they can't explain, and wonder why the same problem feels new the next day. The retention is zero. The confidence is performative.
The placement cells aren't failing — they're improvising. Most don't have a single objective signal of whether a student is ready for an interview. They send everyone to the campus drive and pray.
And the Tier-2/3 colleges — the ones that take in 80% of the country's engineering aspirants — get the worst of it. Their students fight harder, prepare longer, and earn less for it. We built CodeStory for them first.
The arc · one student's week
018 min
Watch the story
"Rahul delivers parcels down a sorted street. That's binary search."
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02·
The concept clicks
The abstraction lands — without a single textbook sentence.
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0315 min
Drill the pattern
Four variants, gradually harder. Hints when stuck, never the answer.
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0445 min
Mock interview, out loud
An AI panelist asks. You explain your approach before you type.
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052 min
Specific feedback
Three things you nailed. Two to fix before the real round.
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06→
The offer letter
A job, in your name — at a company you can WhatsApp your parents about.
The insight
You don't forget a story. You forget a slide.
CS concepts are abstract: recursion, hashing, dynamic programming. When you teach them with a definition and a code block, students memorise. When you teach them with a story — a postman with a route, a librarian with shelves, a courier with stacks — students understand.
Once the idea is in their head, an AI human-avatar tutor asks them to explain it out loud — the way a Google or Razorpay interviewer would. The placement cell sees the score. The student sees themselves differently. That's the whole product.
What we believe
Three rules we'd quit before breaking.
Story over syntax.
We teach the idea before the keyword. If a student can't explain a concept to a non-coder, we haven't taught it yet. Animation is not decoration — it's the lesson.
Outcomes over engagement.
Streaks are easy. Offers are the work. We measure ourselves on placement-readiness and interview pass rates, not on time-in-app — even when it costs us DAU.
Tier-2/3 first.
Our default product runs on a modest laptop and a regular phone over the kind of connection a 2nd-year student in Bhopal actually has. If it works there, it works anywhere.
Where we are
Bootstrapped. Honest. Building.
- Shipped
The wedge, without dilution
Story-lessons and the AI interview tutor — bootstrapped. In conversations with India-focused EdTech and AI funds; nothing closed, nothing claimed.
- Now
Founding college cohort
Free pilot semester, full platform, direct line to the founders. If that's your campus, talk to us.
- Next
Outcomes, published
29 shipped stories, 1,900+ questions, three AI interview rooms — and zero invented traction numbers. Results go public when they're real and ours.
Talk to us
Three doors. Pick whichever fits.
We answer every email — Anil reads commercial, Anuraag reads technical. If you're a college, an engineer who wants to build with us, or an investor who cares about the next million Indian engineers, we'd like to hear from you.