The Shattak blog

Notes on learning, building things, and getting somewhere.

Most education blogs are written by marketing teams who have never taught anyone anything. Ours isn't.

Everything here is written by people who have actually done the thing they're writing about: mentors who cracked the exam, built the product, got the job, shipped the project. If nobody on our side has real experience with a topic, we don't publish on it. We'd rather have a small blog that's true than a big one that's filler.

What we write about

Learning that actually sticks

Why you forget 90% of a course three weeks later. How to study when you have a full time job. Why watching tutorials feels productive and isn't. What to do when you're stuck on the same bug for six hours.

Careers, honestly

What a job is really like on a Tuesday afternoon, not what the job description says. Which roles are crowded. Which ones nobody talks about. How people switched fields at 27, at 34, at 41.

Skills and roadmaps

Step by step paths for specific skills. What to learn first, what to skip, what to build to prove you learned it.

Interview prep

Real questions people were asked. What good answers sound like. Why strong candidates still get rejected.

Student stories

People who finished something. What they built, how long it took, where they got stuck, what they'd do differently. No polished success stories where everything went smoothly, because that's never how it goes.

Building Shattak

Our own decisions, out loud. Why we let people pay ₹0. What's breaking. What we got wrong. If you're curious how a learning platform gets built with no funding, this is that.

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How we write

Four rules. We break them rarely and we feel bad about it.

Somebody has to have done it. No article about cracking product interviews written by someone who has never sat in one.

Specific beats comprehensive. "How to learn Python" is useless. "The seven things that confuse everyone in week one of Python" is useful.

We name the hard parts. If a career path is brutally competitive, we say so. If a skill takes two years, we don't pretend it takes two months. People make bad decisions when you're nice to them instead of honest with them.

No fake numbers. We don't quote salary figures or industry stats we can't stand behind. If we don't know, we say we don't know.

Coming up

The pipeline right now:

What to do in the first two weeks of a new skill, before motivation runs out
The gap between finishing a course and being employable, and how to close it
Reading job descriptions properly: which requirements are real and which are copy pasted
How to build a portfolio project nobody has built 4,000 times before
Studying for competitive exams while working full time
Why we made every Shattak course free to enroll in

Want something covered that isn't on this list? Tell us in the community and we'll look at it.

Write for Shattak

If you've built something, taught something, or figured out a hard thing the slow way, we'd like to publish you.

We're looking for people with real experience in a field, not professional content writers. You don't need to be a good writer. We'll edit. You need to know something true that most people don't.

What we publish: how you actually did the thing, what the industry is really like, mistakes you watched people make, breakdowns of your own work.

What we don't: generic advice, AI written filler, anything that's mostly a promotion for something you're selling.

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Read something, then go build something

Reading about a skill is not learning a skill. That's kind of the whole point of Shattak.

Every course on the platform is free to enroll in. You learn, you build the project, you get the certificate, and only then do you decide what to pay. That can be ₹0.

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