Lockdown, Class 8
School shut in March. I was thirteen, stuck in Mawana with a borrowed phone and a head full of noise.
●2020 · ARCHIVE 001
Rahul Gautam
REC 00:00:00:00
RAHULGAUTAM.CO.IN
RAHULGAUTAM
the record
read that twice
Six years of footage. Every rupee, every shutdown, every 1am render, shot from a room four feet across. Nothing staged, nothing deleted. You are looking at the raw file.
counted, not claimed
THE numbers
0+
Clients
0+
Countries
4×4
Room
0+ TB
Recorded
0
Years old
Forty countries got their work from a room you cross in two steps. Sit with that for a second.
THE curve
Most graphs online only go up. Mine dips twice, flatlines once, and keeps rolling anyway. Drawn from the real numbers.
Source: the tape itself
● Line still moving
THE record
What happened, in the order it happened. No lessons stapled on. The rough parts stay rough.
Faceless on YouTube
FIRST ₹
The internet paid me for the first time
A channel with no face and a mic not worth naming. The money was tiny. The screenshot survived.
The potato PC
i3 · 3RD GEN
No GPU · Mawana
Minutes to open what should take seconds. I used it until it earned its replacement.
●2022 · THE OLD DESK
Photoshop on a machine that lagged
Every export was a wait. I learned to design in the gaps between freezes.
I found AI
Sixteen years old, deep in the Playground before anyone around me knew the word existed.
First order
$5 → $3.75
After fees · Fiverr
Three dollars and seventy five cents. I still open the screenshot sometimes.
●2023 · THE FIRST ORDER
The result
100/100
Mathematics · CBSE Class X · 96% overall
Full marks. The marksheet is real and it lives on this page.
●2024 · MARKSHEET
I told them I needed one year
I asked my parents for one year to prove this was real. They said yes. That yes carried everything after it.
Tonsils. Fever. The gym ended.
2.5 KG
The bar I couldn't lift in Class 11
Surgery first, then everything else at once. Training stopped.
Chapter closedThe clothing brand died
₹0
Ad budget
It never got the chance to fail slowly.
Shut downNo fan. Power cut every two hours.
7 PM → 1 AM
Every night, all summer
I worked the hours the room allowed and slept through the ones it didn't.
I hired before I bought myself anything
₹100 / DESIGN
The first person I ever paid
The work was outgrowing my two hands. So someone else's got paid before my own wants did.
17 February
₹22,000
One payout
The first number that felt like proof instead of luck.
●17.02.2025 · PAYOUT
OG Protocol. I started filming everything.
1.4+ TB
And counting · Dated · Backed up twice
Since that day the camera rolls before the work starts. This site is what the camera caught.
I handed it to my sister. It broke. I shut it down.
Shut downRejoined the gym the day before my last exam
10 KG
Gained back
Everyone said wrong timing. I went anyway.
The beast
RTX 4060
Three years after the i3
Paid for entirely by the work the potato PC somehow survived.
●2025 · THE NEW BUILD
Dropped out of B.Tech, year one
Chapter closedOsmo Pocket 3
The camera got smaller. The recording became constant.
Now
40+ COUNTRIES
Served from a 4×4 room · Meerut
The tape is still running. This page is where it gets logged, month after month.
04 · the room
SAME ROOM, different machine
2022 · i3 3RD GEN
2026 · RTX 4060
THE BAR I couldn't lift
2.5 KG
Class 11 · Couldn't lift it
PRESENT
Still on tape
●2023
●2024
●2025
●2026
06 · the work
PROOF, not a pitch
Vincent FisherLanding page, built end to end
LeadGenJayDesign work
Conor MartinOrdered one thumbnail. Still a client two years later.
350+ clients40+ countries, most of them found me on Fiverr
The agency runs quietly at desigix.com →
live
WHAT'S recording now
The day to day lives on the feed. This wall shows the freshest tape.
Open goal · Public until it's done
$1,000,000in one year
Status: NOT DONE
Updated 01.08.26
Next, once this one falls
$1,000,000 IN ONE MONTH
09 · contact
THE TAPE keeps running
© 2026 Rahul Gautam
recorded, never rehearsed
● REC · rahulgautam.co.in
● CH 01 / 20 · LOCKDOWN