I made a mistake. A big one.

For the last few months, I have been building Mockyard with a specific vision in mind. I looked at the market leaders - Unacademy, PrepLadder, Sleepy Classes - and I thought, "To compete, I need to be like them"

I build course management system. I wrote code for a "coin" economy to keep users engaged. I was essentially building "Netflix for UPSC."

"Netflix" Trap

When we open Netflix, we feel productive because we're "watching" something. But we aren't doing the work.

in EdTech, this translates to the "Lecture Trap." We watch a 2-hour video on Revolt of 1857, nod our heads, and then feel like we've studied. But when a tricky MCQ comes up about the specific leaders in Bihar vs. Lucknow, we blank out

I realized that by building a course+ platform, I was encouraging the exact behaviour that kills UPSC attempts: Passive Consumption.

I don't need another app to teach me History. I have Laxmikant, I have Spectrum. I have NCERTS. I have Coaching materials. The world doesn't need more content.

What I need ➡️ what we need ➡️ is a MIRROR

The Great RESET

So, this weekend I did something painful. I opened my development environment, selected the Courses, Video etc... and I hit DELETE.

Hundreds of line of code "GONE"

I'm pivoting Mockyard from Content Factory to a Habit Engine (more precisely Intelligent Performance Engine).

Introducing Mockyard 2.0 "The Habit Engine"

If I am to crack UPSC 2027 while running a startup, I cannot rely on brute force. I need Precision Practice that yields Realistic Exam Results.

I don't want a score of 60/100. I want to know why I got those 40 wrong.

  • Was it a Concept Gap?
  • Did I fall for a common trap?
  • Did I guess poorly?

Here is what the new, lean Mockyard (MVP 2.0) focused on:

1. The Weekness Heatmap

Instead of a list of courses, the home screen is now a list of your weeknesses.

  • Red Dot: Accuracy < 50% (e.g. Indus Valley Civilization)
  • Green Dot: Accuracy > 80% (e.g. Preamble)

My everyday goal is simple: Turn one Red Dot into a Green Dot

2. The "Mistake Filter"

I built a feature I desperately needed. "Re-attempt Mistakes Only." I don't want to solve the questions I already know. I want to drill the ones I got wrong until they are imprinted in my memory.

3. The "TRAP" Analysis

"You're not alone." The new engine analyses thousands of attempts to tell you:

45% of students fell for Option A, you did too 😂

These features are work in progress.

The Commitment

I am building this tool for myself first. I am the "Engineer-Aspirant." I don't teach subjects; I engineer the meta-game of cracking the UPSC exam.

I will be sharing my own Heatmap data publicly. You will see when I fail. You will see which subjects I am struggling with. And you will see how I use data to fix them.

The Netflix subscription is cancelled. It's time to hit the Gym.

Till then Arigatou Gozaimasu