[S.00] Builder network
We're a builder network across India, run entirely by teenagers. We built it from scratch as the alternative to rigid tech events pitched only at beginners.
§01 · Timeline [04]
In July 2025, our team was organizing a major regional student hackathon under an external partner organization. By mid-August the partner had cancelled the event, and we refused to quit. We founded bits&bytes™ in November 2025 so our events would never depend on an outside group again. The plan was one 24-hour hackathon to make up for the lost one, and it grew into a teen builder network that runs across India.
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In July 2025, our team was organizing a major regional student hackathon under an external partner organization.
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By mid-August the partner had cancelled the event, and we refused to quit.
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We founded bits&bytes™ in November 2025 so our events would never depend on an outside group again.
The plan was one 24-hour hackathon to make up for the lost one, and it grew into a teen builder network that runs across India.
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GOBITSNBYTES FOUNDATION was legally incorporated as a Section 8 non-profit company on 2 June 2026.
§02 — Principles [03]
We don't hand-hold, and we don't run rigid formats.
bits&bytes™ is run by teenagers, for teenagers. The people next to you came to write code and launch real projects, so nobody sits through lectures to collect a certificate.
On GitHub, a fork is your own copy of an upstream repo that stays linked, so work flows back.
A bits&bytes™ fork is the same thing for a city or school: a local chapter takes the playbook and brand from upstream, runs its own room, and ships back. Active forks: Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Nagpur, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Lucknow and Hyderabad. Start one at gobitsnbytes.org/fork
Our hackathons, and the workshops inside them, have to end with something shipped.
A demo that only lives on a presentation slide doesn't count. We build software that people actually use.
§03 — Agents
The teenagers who run bits&bytes™, and the contributors who ship with them.
National IOQM qualifier who prototypes with AI. Built Codiva, a 5-star VS Code extension with thousands of users, and leads community hardware sessions.
RSI India alumna who did neuroscience research on EEG signals and attention modeling. Leads our visual voice and creative strategy.
Built and runs our stack. Former Jr. Research Engineer at jhana.ai. Works on retrieval pipelines and production infrastructure.
Co-architected our backend. Manages partner accounts, sponsors and the budget.
Runs growth: audience campaigns, brand strategy and coordination across regional cohorts.
Keeps operations moving: process automation, resource planning and logistics for the team.
Looks after our media, visual content, graphic identity and social campaigns.
Handles institutional relations, sponsor contacts and communication with our regional chapters.
Leads our research: studying the community and planning how the organization grows.
Big fan of clear documentation, proven processes that actually work, and building alongside people smarter than me.
Thanks to the early team members and contributors who helped build and shape the network in its first sprints, then moved on to new things: Saksham, Kaustubh, Oviya.
*Roles change as the team and the network grow.
§04 — GOBITSNBYTES FOUNDATION
[G.00] Upstream
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[G.01] (Constitutional Authority)
Ultimate legal, financial, and safeguarding authority over GOBITSNBYTES FOUNDATION sits with the Board of Directors. The names of the directors are kept private from public-facing profiles to preserve operational privacy.
[G.02] (Delegated Operations)
Appointed by the Board under Article 28 of the e-Articles of Association (e-AOA) for Network operations. Because bits&bytes™ is youth-led and includes minors, these designations represent operational accountability only. They do not automatically confer statutory directorship, legal membership, signature authority, bank control, or the power to bind the Foundation except where explicitly authorized in writing by the Board.
[G.03]
A Fork is a recognized local, institutional, or thematic operating unit of the Network. It does not constitute a separate legal entity, franchise, branch office, joint venture, partnership, or subsidiary. A Fork has no authority to bind, contract, represent, or collect funds on behalf of GOBITSNBYTES FOUNDATION. All financial transactions and sponsorship agreements must be routed through Upstream.
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All youth and minor participation is protected under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act). Parental consent is mandatory.