Thanks for the
noticing.
For three days in May, 201 of you opened a quiet window and admitted who you had noticed across four years of college. 238 crushes were sent. 11 pairs were reciprocated. 16 people walked away with a name. Thanks for showing up to it.
The full numbers, anonymised
AdityaAyan
Ayan Choradia &
Aditya Patil.
Concept and execution, both of us. Class of ’26 at NIT Hamirpur, same as you.
We built this in our final months on campus because we wanted one honest answer to a question that had been hanging in the air for four years. We didn’t expect this many of you to show up. You did, and you trusted us with something quiet and personal. That trust is the whole reason it worked.
Thank you, batch of ’26. For the signups, the picks, the leap of faith, and for being the kind of batch that would actually do this. We’ll carry this one with us, wherever we end up next.
Ayan & Aditya
The promise was simple
“If it’s one-sided,
no one would
ever know.”
That promise was kept. Every one-sided crush stays sealed. Forever.
This was a small, quiet experiment. It worked because you showed up to it.
For three days, a graduating engineering campus admitted who they had been noticing for four years. 16people now have a name they didn’t have before. The rest of the picks stay where they belong: private, forever.
The data behind it tells a fuller story. We wrote it up as a case study, so the numbers, the gender flow, the branch patterns, and the honest read on what worked and what didn’t are all in one place.
Thank you, Class of ’26.
A note on what happens next
The signup flow is turned off. The database is being wound down. The case study captures everything we learned, anonymised. No personal data is being kept past this point.