Every year, lakhs of students get rejected from government exam applications. Not because they failed. Because their photo was 5KB over the
I know someone this happened to.
He'd been preparing for over a year. UPSC. The kind of preparation that takes over your life — early mornings, thick books, hand-written notes covering every wall. He finally sat down to fill the form. Uploaded his photo. Error. File size exceeded.
He didn't know how to compress it properly. He tried random sites. One asked him to sign up. One had a watermark. One just... didn't work. He panicked, compressed it too much, the image quality dropped, and he submitted it anyway hoping it would pass.
It didn't.
That moment stayed with me. Because it had nothing to do with how smart he was or how hard he'd worked. It was a 5KB problem. A technical barrier that shouldn't exist.
So I built OptiKit.
It's a free browser-based toolkit built specifically for Indian government exam applicants. Photo compression. PDF merging. Image resizing to exact UPSC, SSC, Banking, NSDL specs. Signature formatting. Everything you need to get your documents portal-ready in under two minutes.
And here's the part I care most about: nothing leaves your device. No uploads. No servers. No storing your Aadhaar photo or signature somewhere you don't control. It all runs in your browser RAM and gets discarded the moment you're done.
OptiKit is already showing up in Google Search. Real students are finding it. That means everything to me.
Zero revenue right now. But if this tool saves even one person from that 5KB rejection it was worth building.
