How We Ended Up Making a Banger ft. Super-30
So let’s keep it real, straight, and to the point.
It’s been around a month since Super-30 started.
For those who don’t know, Super-30 is a batch by Harkirat Singh where 50–60 engineers basically live together on campus and just build stuff.
For the first month, we were building projects like:
- A decentralized exchange
- Harness
And honestly?
After grinding on these projects for a month straight, boredom started hitting.
I wanted to build something completely random.
Something fun.
Something that wasn’t another dashboard with buttons everywhere.
So I asked my roommate:
“Give me a project idea. But it has to be TUI-based.”
(TUI = Terminal User Interface)
Without even thinking, he goes:
“Build a multiplayer MonkeyType game in the terminal.”
My first reaction was:
“Nah bro, that sounds painful.”
Because realtime multiplayer + websockets + terminal UI sounded like a recipe for suffering.
But then I thought about it for a minute.
And the funny thing was…
The logic wasn’t actually that hard.
It was still just a normal full-stack app.
The server logic stayed the same.
The realtime stuff stayed the same.
The only thing that changed was the UI.
Instead of React, I was using Ink.
And suddenly the project felt way more doable.
So over the weekend…
I built it.
The funniest part?
I coded the realtime backend server in under an hour.
The actual time-consuming stuff was:
- Fighting with padding
- Fighting with margins
- Publishing to npm
- Deploying everything
Basically all the things nobody posts screenshots of.
But wait.
That’s not even the interesting part.
The roommate who suggested the project had another idea.
And this one was way more dangerous.
He said:
“Let’s make a skit.”
A SKIT.
Like an actual video.
With acting.
And recording.
And people watching us.
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As a very shy person, my immediate answer was:
“Absolutely not.”
But somehow he convinced me. ( 😏 )
So one evening all of us roommates locked ourselves inside the room and started doing stuff. ( 😏 )
Doing stuff meaning:
- Writing a script
- Recording scenes
- Retaking scenes because someone couldn’t stop laughing
- Recording more scenes
- Laughing even harder
The entire thing was chaos.
And somehow…
We finished the whole video in under 2 hours.
Now let’s talk about the production budget.
Our highly-funded startup studio consisted of:
- 2 MacBooks
- 1 iPhone
- 1 Android phone
- 1 Mic
- 5 Engineers
- One ₹20k/month room
That’s it.
No fancy cameras.
No lighting setup.
No production team.
Just pure engineering energy.
Then the same roommate started editing.
Version 1 was done.
We watched it.
It was decent.
Then somebody said:
“Add bloopers.”
Best decision ever.
Why?? because people like it more than the video itself :(
We added bloopers.
Added some outro music.
Uploaded it.
And somehow people liked the bloopers more than the actual video.
Then we posted everything on X.
No ads.
No promotion.
Nothing.
And within an hour…
The post crossed 1.5k views.
Which is actually pretty cool on X.
Right now it’s sitting at around 4k views and we’re feeling pretty great about it.
You can checkout that SKIT here at: https://x.com/bhargav16exdd/status/2066528027841122537
So yeah.
We’re probably going to keep doing more random stuff like this.
Stay tuned.
Peace out ✌️
