Sambodh IAS - Find. Fix. Finish

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Sabyasachi - built Sambodh IAS solo over the last year. What inspired it: I spent years preparing for India's UPSC Civil Services exam — a 3-stage marathon with a ~0.1% acceptance rate. My best Prelims was 114/200, just shy of the cut. What killed me wasn't a lack of material — it was the opposite. I was drowning in it. NCERTs, standard books, monthly current affairs PDFs, three newspapers a day, ten years of PYQs. The bottleneck was never content. It was knowing what to revise next, and what I'd actually forgotten. The problem: UPSC prep tools today are either static PDFs or coaching videos. Nothing watches you prepare. Nothing remembers that you got rivers of peninsular India wrong three times in April, or that you've never been tested on Article 263. So aspirants re-read instead of retrieving — and retrieval is where memory actually lives. What I built: - An adaptive diagnostic that remembers your mistakes and picks your next question accordingly — Prelims MCQs and Mains subjective. - Every answer is source-cited (book, chapter, page) — no LLM hallucinations. If the AI claims a fact, you can verify it against an NCERT line. - NewsPulse: daily current affairs from The Hindu, Indian Express & Mint, auto-mapped to the UPSC syllabus, with Prelims + Mains angles baked in. Replaces three newspapers. - Places in News drill — UPSC has asked 2–4 of these every Prelims since 2018. Two marks here usually decides your year. - 31 years of PYQs (1995–2025), fully tagged. How the approach evolved: I started thinking I was building a question bank. Two aspirants live-testing the beta for the last 6 weeks taught me that the question matters less than the next question - the platform's job is to be a tutor that picks the right thing to put in front of you at the right time. So the entire architecture got rebuilt around a knowledge graph + spaced retrieval, not a content library. Prelims 2026 is just days away. Open for the next 100 aspirants (and anyone curious how adaptive learning actually works under the hood). Feedback is oxygen — please be brutal. 🔗 https://sambodh-ias.in Find. Fix. Finish.