Building a startup as an international student, while job hunting on OPT and coding past midnight, isn’t the origin story most founders tell…but it’s an honest one. This is Abhishek Goyal’s first-hand account of how Unibridge came to life – a platform designed to solve the chaotic first month that every international student navigates alone, just like he had.
From choosing Lovable and Supabase over learning React from scratch, to debugging row-level security at midnight, to saying no to the most-requested feature on the roadmap. This is what building a real product actually looks like from the inside.
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