I was still 15. Still on a phone. Still no PC.
But the bot running on Google Cloud Shell had planted something that wouldn’t leave me alone. I wanted to build something myself. Not run someone else’s code. Actually build.
So I started writing JavaScript on Glitch.com from my phone. Browser based editor, touchscreen keyboard, patchy internet. I was figuring out how Discord events worked from scratch. No tutorial, no course, just documentation and trial and error. My first real output was a simple logger. Basic commands. Nothing that would impress anyone.
But it ran. And I built it.
Then I started hosting tournaments. Clash Royale. Brawl Stars. Mostly Indian players. Free entry, prizes of 1 or 2 rupees. Built my own Discord server to run them from scratch. The community was small but real: people showing up, competing, coming back.
Running tournaments manually from a phone had limits. I needed more. Found a kid with a PC. He found another kid who could write code properly. I brought the product thinking: ideas, feature plans, what the bot actually needed to do. They brought the execution. Between us we built tournament automation that actually worked.
By end of 2019 I finally had my own PC. Downloaded VSCode. Installed Node.js. Started learning JavaScript and Node backend properly.
No course. No bootcamp. Just documentation and whatever I could figure out by breaking things and fixing them.
The phone era was over.