I got the police called on me, the DEAN threatened to kick me out, my phone got confiscated, all because of a website I made.
this is that story. its really really fucking crazy.
On Friday morning, around 1 am, I launched iitsocial.com
What the site was is that, I had scraped data for all students at IIT Delhi, and made a profile for all of them.
For egs, this was my profile:
anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile. Each profile also had 4 fields, where you could tag anyone, in the "has dated", "crushing on", "crushed on by" or "haters" category.
There was a feed, really cool search features, a trending list, all that.
Another cool thing was that whenever someone commented on your profile or tagged you, I'd send you an email on your official iitd email.
Back to the story,
at 1 am, I launched the site, and just told 4 of my friends. that's it.
And then the crazy part started,
within 1 hours, over 300 accounts were made.
by 3 am, the site was averaging 10 posts per min. 
I was really fucking pumped obv, cos bro, this level of virality, completely organically is fucking crazy. over a thousand people were viewing my site at 3 am on a friday morning, in a uni that has only 5k undergrads, this is a really big deal. This is more than facebook level sticky.
People were tagging a lot of people, writing really interesting gossip, rumors, confessions, everything lmao.
I was walking through my dorm hallway, and i heard laughing from a room, i went inside and 5 people were sitting around a computer just scrolling through the site and posting stuff. literally perfect, everything i could have asked for.
Then suddenly I got a call. There's this guy, let's call him S. apparently S is like a college gangster, like he's really involved in college politics and all. And someone had written a comment about S which he did not like.
this was the conversation, I am mony btw.
S: hey am i speaking to Mony? did you make this site iitsocial?
Mony: yooo whatsup. yeah i did.
S: take the site down right now. someone has written something about me.
Mony: uhh, no? lmao why would i.
S: How are you not going to take it down after I have told you to!
Mony: bitch come suck my dick
S: ok you watch now. We will drag you out of your room in the morning and then let's see what you have to say.
Mony: ok baby see you in the morning.
lmao as you can see I wasnt taking this guy serious at all. And I went back to scrolling my site with my friends.
Then at around 4:30 am, i got a call from the assistant security officer of iit delhi. They told me I needed to come to the security office right now. 
There they basically told me someone had filed a complaint against the site, and that I needed to take it down.
I told them, "no i wont", so then he's like okay you might have to face the DISCO (DISCiplinary Committee of IITD) tomorrow. I said sure.
at this point, I just thought this shit was a joke, like I was just enjoying all this.
like the notereity, and all these people telling me to take it down, cos I did not think they had any right to make me.
I was uploading instagram stories throughout
Then I just went back to my room and was enjoying the popularity of my site, when at 7:30 am, I got a call from the Delhi Cyber police.
Apparently someone ("S") had registered a complaint against me. I mean this call was not that big of a deal, like cos I knew the police can't really tell me to do anyhting, and my parents are in the army too so intimidation obv wont work.
The gist of this convo was basically, he "suggested" I take the site down, but obv he could not force me, so i just told him thanks for the suggestion.
At this point I was genuinely feeling really fucking cool, cos I was just thinking this would be a really cool story to tell investors when I have a startup. The site was just booming.
So I just went to sleep, really really satisfied. then at 11:30 am, I got a call from the Security Officer of IIT Delhi, the main security officer.
So off I went to his office again, he was honestly really sweet, we just had a long 30 minute conversation.
I mean I guess he did not have a "REAL" reason to make me take the site down, he was saying things like "how can you use the IIT Delhi name", "who is responsible for some obscene comments" etc. etc. like not valid concerns imo.
he told me, take the site down or you WILL face DISCO, so again I was like sure, I dont mind it (I was just gettting reminded of Social Network lmao)
Then he kind of laughed and then he asked for my dad's number and called him. My dad just stood on business and told him my son's not going to take the site down.
At this point, life was really fucking cool, I was THE TALK of the entire campus. I got like 100 new instagram followers overnight. Anywhere I was walking people were stopping me and talking to me about the site etc. etc.
Then my dad called me and told me that instead of waiting for the DISCO meet, just go talk to the DEAN yourself, he will be understanding. and i thought that's a great idea, so I went back to the Security Officer and told him I wanted to speak to the dean.
btw i just want to say before writing further, that i absolutely understand where the dean was coming from. like he is a very caring person, and he was obvioulsy coming from a place of care. i mean i guess everyone was just stressed but later on he really helped make me feel better and calm down.
so i appreciate you dean sir. anyways
The moment I entered the room, the Dean just started shouting at me. he told me, what is this? you have to take this site down. this cant stay up.
I tried to talk to him normally, but he wasnt ready to listen to me. like he wont let me speak at all.
Him and a few of his yes-men were just saying random bs.
He said 'you are ruining the harmony of our institution', 'how can you use the iit hostels name, or the iit delhi name'
He also said if people go to the site they will think the site is made by iit delhi, lmaoooooo. bruh i just thought wtf is happening, no one would think that obv. for gods sake this was my contact page:
like obv no one would think this is an official college site.
I was telling him, sir, give me one actual rule im breaking and i'll take the site down. but he was just saying random things, oh some students are complaining etc.
I told him reddit is also anonymous, twitter too, like why is my site any different. so he told me but we do not control reddit and twitter.
I just thought to myslef 'bro why do you think you control this site lmaoooo'
also at one point i literally said the social network dialogue, " I feel like i deserve some recognition from you guys"
i told him "sir I've been working the past 25 days on this, even at my sisters wedding i didnt sleep cos i was working all night" but they just said some stupid shit liek "oh so if i work 25 days on a bank robbery does that make it ok"?
at one point a really funny convo was;
Dean: We have already gotten 3 complaints
mony: ok, maybe 3 people are complaining, but 1000+ people are also enjoying the site.
dean: no, thats not how it works. even if 1 person complains and 999 people are happy, you have to care about that one person
mony: sir but I can also find one person who will not like your classes and teaching,,, does that mean you're going to stop teaching?
then the Dean's yes-man got mad and said:
"sir this kid is really stubborn, he wont listen to you. let's just give him grade 3 disco (the higest level of disciplinary punishment, gets you held back one semester)"
And so they all got up to leave, and the security officer said, "listen the site is going to go down anyway. either you take it down yourself or we will make you take it down"
So I said "ok make me"
This angered all of them, and the dean then asked to call my dad too, he basically told him "tell your son to take the site down or we will do what we do"
lmao this was so funny, cos a lot of people had gathered around, and like these people were obv trynna suck up to the dean so they were like shaking their head and saying smh this kid has no seriousness or respect.
The crazy thing is, even at this point I was not really worried, cos I thought if this goes to the Disciplinary meeting, they'd have to quote some rules for making me take down the site. and anyways, I know I want to dropout of school anyways, so I'm not going to shut down the site anyways. this'll just a really good story to tell investors.
So at this point, we just started saying our goodbyes, like he said he'd contact the cyber police etc. I was sort of dissapointed cos I thought they'd be more understanding but wtv. I thought I'd see him in the DISCO meet.
Here is where I sort of messed up i think. this whole conversation, I was recording on my mobile. I mean I dont really know why I was doing it, just thought it'd be an important video in my life and cool to look back on in the future.
But while we were leaving, the Security Officer saw my phone was recording.
and this is where all hell broke loose.
He said, 'are you recording this'
I said yeah, i was scared for myslef so I'm recodring.
On hearing this, everyone started freaking the fuck out.
like 10-15 guards and officers surrounded me. The Dean started shouting at me, how can you do that. you are invading our privacy. I will file an FIR on you. The security officer too, they all started shouting at me.
So i was like chill out bro, ill just delete the video, but the dean said, "no confiscate his phone".
so one of the guards just snatched the phone from my hand
the dean said wipe everything, and dont give him his phone back. I was like wtf is happening? bro I have my private photos on there dont do this. like you cannot do this. I tried reaching for my phone but one of the security guys just held me. and started being rough with me. like pushing me around and shit.
and they asked for my password and then started looking at all the photos. I was getting so scared at this point, i was like wtf, how can they look at all my photos or delete them.
Everyone was shouting at me, i felt like I was being harrassed at this point, and honestly, it's a little embarissing, but i just got overwhelmed. like with all this shit.
I started crying, literally balling my eyes out. like actual loud crying cos I just got really fucking overwhelmed at this. I couldnt believe this shit was happening.
I just started saying "please leave me alone. i will take down the site. please just leave me"
man i felt like a fucking terrorist, and for what? a fucking social media site i had worked so hard on?!
The secrurity guys deleted every single image from the last two days.even though there were only 3 videos, they deleted all my photos and videos of the past 2 days. like all my memories of launching my site, photos with my friends celebrating the success, videos i made talking to myself about achieving my dreams and how i can do anyhitng. like i just felt so fucking sad at this point.
I guess cos I was crying so loudly, everyone sort of got scared or calmed down. they deleted everything from the past two days and handed my phone back to me. I couldnt stop crying though.
Then the dean called me to his office.
To his credit, like i guess seeing me cry and be so sad, the dean became really really nice.
Like I appreciate him being nice then. he told me i can tell you have amazing software skills, i can help you make research projects in the summer etc.
he told me I was like his son. and that he has a responsiblity to the other students too.
I mean to an extent I get him, like I'm not mad at the dean about this, cos he was getting complaints from the students, so i guess he felt he had to do something. like thats obv understandable. no hard feelings at all. i respect him.
but i was still crying really hard the whole 15 minutes i was in his room. he was just calming me down and talking to me nicely. I was just telling him okay sir i will take the site down. like i was just overwhelmed.
while leaving his office, i was still crying... cos i felt like my dream, had suddenly turned into a nightmare.
to the dean's credit, like half an hour later, he literally came to my room, to check up on me and that i was good. like that's really nice of him, he didnt have to do that.
but man i was just so fucking sad. I just took the site down at that point.
like what else could i do...
a couple days later tho, i relaunched the site, and it was obv really popular again. this time i was moderating the site too...
but again some guy complained to a different dean. this time I took the site down for good.
the final stats were;
atleast 7k unique visitors to the site (there are only 5k undergrads at iit delhi lmao)
over 16k posts on the website
and the main thing is the college social phenomena this site was. in every classroom, every laptop had iitsocial open.
everywhere i go, people come up and talk to me about the site. people are posting about me on reddit,
whatever, iitsocial.com was just the start. i have a bunch of cool things i need to achieve. I'm going to be THE WHIZ KID BILLIONAIRE OF THIS GENERATION.
WITNESS HISTORY.