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Arun Raghav S

Arun Raghav S.

Co-founder of IITian Vibes and Crayonz. B.Tech, IIT Jodhpur.

Based
Jodhpur, IN
Email
aivolvix@gmail.com
GitHub
@Arun-Raghav-S

I write the long form on this journal. Placements, rankings, hostel life, the things you actually need to know before joining or after graduating from an IIT. Real sources, no recycled aggregator copy.

The day job is consumer commerce. I co-founded IITian Vibes in college, designing merchandise around the actual culture of each IIT campus rather than the generic "Engineer" graphics you find everywhere else. The journal you are reading is the editorial half of the brand, the side that earns trust before the merch does.

These days most of my building time goes to Crayonz, the creator marketplace and merch infrastructure we are growing out of the IITian Vibes operation. The bet is simple. Anyone, fan club organiser, college fest, indie artist, small streetwear label, should be able to launch a merch line in an afternoon. We handle the design tooling, production, fulfilment, the boring middle. The creator keeps the brand.

Projects

What I am building

  1. 01

    IITian Vibes

    Live

    Premium merch for every IIT, designed inside out and shipped pan India. T shirts, hoodies, varsity jackets, bottles, the rest of the wardrobe. Designs are built around real institute slang and hostel culture, not generic college graphics. The journal you are reading is part of the same brand.

  2. 02

    Crayonz

    In build

    A creator marketplace for custom merch. Anyone can build, list and sell their own line of t shirts, hoodies and accessories, with production, payments and fulfilment handled for them. By the team behind IITian Vibes. The SaaS API, which lets creators plug Crayonz into their own storefront or community, ships next.

  3. 03

    The Journal

    Live

    Long form writing about the IIT system. Each post is sourced, cited, and built to be the page you would actually want to find when you Google the question, instead of the recycled aggregator version that ranks today.

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