Nalum is now on alumni.nsut.ac.in

I started Nalum in my first year at NSUT.

At the time, it was just an idea I cared enough about to build. I wanted a better way for the university and its alumni community to stay connected, and I kept coming back to the thought that the bridge between students and alumni should feel more alive, more useful, and more intentional than it usually does.

What I did not know then was how far that idea would go.

Now Nalum is officially on alumni.nsut.ac.in.

That matters to me for obvious reasons, but not just because of the domain itself. A student project becoming part of the official college ecosystem means the work proved durable enough to outgrow its original context. It means the idea stopped being just mine and became worth carrying forward at the institution level.

The timing makes it heavier in a good way. This is happening before I graduate. Most student projects never get that far. You build them in a semester, maybe push them a little more, and eventually college moves on. What feels rare here is not just that Nalum survived. It matured.

The part I care about most is that it is not ending with me.

There is now a dedicated team of juniors working on it. That is the real signal. If something is useful, it should survive the batch that started it. The best student-built systems are the ones that become bigger than their founders and keep improving after the original team leaves campus.

That is also why this feels fitting for an alumni platform in particular. Alumni networks are supposed to be about continuity across batches, shared identity, mentorship, and giving back. Nalum has started to reflect that in its own journey too. What began as a first-year build is now being carried by the next set of people who believe it is worth pushing further.

I do not see this moment as a finish line. It feels more like a handoff.

Seeing Nalum move onto alumni.nsut.ac.in before graduation is one of the most meaningful things I will take away from college. Not because I got to start it, but because I got to see it become real enough to last.