Devansh Ranjan's profile on Product Hunt

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I’m Devansh Ranjan, building Contral, a learning-first coding IDE for CS undergrads, grads, and early devs who are tired of “vibe-coding” and want real skill. It keeps the VS Code/Cursor vibe, but adds structured learning + checkpoints + project-based progress so you don’t just ship code, you understand it, debug it, and grow fast. I build product-first software at the intersection of AI, full-stack engineering, and design, and I love high-pressure execution (hackathons, MVP sprints, shipping in public). I’m a Smart India Hackathon (SIH’25) finalist and a Codeforces Pupil, so I care about both fundamentals + speed. Open to collaborating with builders/designers, connecting with mentors in dev tools/edtech, and onboarding early users for Contral.

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Maker History

SumoraThe AI team that finds and closes your next customer.
Jul 2026
ContralThe agent which teaches while you build.

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Joined Product HuntJanuary 21st, 2026

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3d ago

Looking for 5 agency owners who want us to build their outbound system for free

Most small agencies don t have a bad offer.

They have an inconsistent pipeline.

One week they manually search for prospects.
The next week they are busy delivering client work.
Outbound stops, follow-ups get forgotten, and revenue becomes unpredictable.

We built Sumora to solve this.

p/contral

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13d ago

We exited Contral. Here’s what we built next.

A few months ago, we exited Contral.

Contral was the first real startup Samagra and I built together. We were 18, figuring everything out as we went, and somehow reached 1500+ users and became #1 Product of the Week twice.

More importantly, Contral taught us how to ship quickly, listen to users, launch publicly, and keep building when nothing is certain.

While building it, one problem kept hurting us: consistently finding and reaching the right customers.

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4mo ago

1 month since launch on ProductHunt

One month ago we launched Contral on Product Hunt and hit #1 Product of the Week. Here's what happened since.

500+ developers downloaded the beta. We didn't expect that number this early honestly. The feedback has been wild, some stuff we expected people to love (the teaching layer) and some stuff we didn't expect at all (Defense Mode became the most talked about feature by far, people genuinely love being quizzed on their own code which was surprising).

We started conversations with a few universities about running Contral as a pilot in their CS programs. The idea of students learning to code inside an actual IDE instead of switching between a tutorial and an editor resonated hard with the professors we spoke to. Nothing signed yet but the conversations are real and moving.

Bug reports have been humbling. Our early users don't hold back and thats exactly what we needed. We've shipped fixes almost daily since launch based on real user feedback. The product today is genuinely better than what we launched with a month ago.