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Aayushmaan Chakraborty
Aayushmaan Chakraborty

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I built a free placement prep platform after getting frustrated with scattered resources — here's what's in it

I'm a third-year CS student and when placement season hit,
I kept running into the same problem.

LeetCode for DSA. YouTube for system design. Random PDFs for OS/DBMS/CN.
GeeksforGeeks for aptitude. Some other site for HR questions.

Five tabs minimum just to prep for one interview.

So I built CrackIt — a single platform that covers everything.

What's inside

DSA — 225+ questions

  • Tagged by company (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, JP Morgan and 13 more)
  • Beginner mode: Arrays → Strings → Hash Map → Two Pointers → Trees → Heaps. Easy before Medium. No overwhelm.
  • Experienced mode: Full roadmap through Graphs, DP, Union Find, Tries, Monotonic Stack
  • Progress bars per topic — see exactly how far you are in Arrays, in DP, in Graphs
  • Notes per question — write your approach, auto-saves as you type

System Design

  • HLD Concepts — 55 concepts across 13 categories (Scalability, Caching, Messaging, Distributed Systems...)
  • LLD Concepts — OOP, SOLID, all design patterns with examples
  • Problems — 32 HLD problems + 28 LLD problems + 10 Machine Coding, all with free verified resource links

Core CS

  • OS, DBMS, CN — expandable Q&A with company tags
  • SQL — 7 topics with LeetCode practice links
  • SE — Git, Testing, CI/CD, Clean Code, API Design

Aptitude & Logical Reasoning

  • 20 MCQ questions with full solutions and shortcut tricks
  • Company tagged — filter by Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, JP Morgan etc.

HR & Behavioral

  • 20 questions with STAR framework answers
  • Dos and don'ts for each question
  • Company specific sections for fintech

Tech stack

  • Next.js 14 (App Router)
  • Supabase (Auth + Postgres)
  • Tailwind CSS
  • PostHog analytics

Google OAuth sign-in — progress syncs across devices.
Everything is free. No paywall. No login needed to browse.

Link

👉 https://crack-it-zeta.vercel.app

Would love feedback on what to add next. Building this in public.

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