Who's behind this
Built by two people who kept missing their own deadlines.
Brabble started as a personal fix for a problem Debraj and Yogesh kept running into themselves, and turned into something a lot of other students needed too.
2026
Founded, out of a personal problem
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The story
Debraj and Yogesh spent years entering hackathons and case competitions as students, and every single time it was the same problem: there was no one place to find what was actually open, and no reliable way to keep track of what they'd already committed to. A relevant hackathon would get announced on one platform, a case competition on another, and the actual registration deadline would live somewhere in an email that got buried within a day. More than once, they found out about a genuinely good opportunity only after it had already closed.
It wasn't a one-time annoyance either, it happened over and over, across different semesters and different competitions, until it stopped feeling like bad luck and started feeling like a structural gap that nobody had bothered to fix. Deadlines were scattered across emails, WhatsApp groups, Instagram posts, and college notice boards, with no single source anyone could actually rely on. So they built the tool they wished had existed the whole time: one page, every open hackathon and case competition, sorted by how soon it closes, linked straight to the organiser.
Brabble is still early, but the response so far has been the validation they needed to keep building it out properly. There's a growing base of students coming back to it every week, and the feedback that keeps showing up unprompted is that people genuinely like how the product looks and feels to use, which matters, because the entire point was to make something students would actually want to open, not just another dashboard they'd forget about.
The people behind it
Co-founder, Growth & AI Product
Debraj Mukherjee
Debraj is currently a student at NIT Durgapur, and splits his time across Brabble's growth and product sides, everything from figuring out which opportunities students actually care about, to shipping the AI-driven parts of the product.
Before Brabble, he went through roughly ten internships across a deliberately wide spread of domains: AI/ML, product management, AI product management, growth, and a founder's-office role at an early-stage startup. That range wasn't accidental, he wanted to see how different functions actually operate before committing to build something of his own, and it's a big part of why Brabble's product decisions lean on data and user behaviour rather than guesswork.
He's also spent time at Zomato, working in a fast-moving, execution-heavy environment that shaped how he thinks about shipping quickly and iterating in public.
The idea for Brabble came directly from his own frustration: constantly discovering hackathons and case competitions after their deadlines had already passed, with no single reliable source keeping track. That personal itch, shared with Yogesh, is what turned into the product today.
Co-founder, Engineering
Yogesh Dubey
Yogesh owns Brabble's engineering end to end: the architecture, the data pipelines that keep the listings fresh, and the day-to-day decisions on what gets built and how.
He's freelanced across multiple companies simultaneously, worked at several startups in engineering roles, and interned at Deloitte, giving him exposure to both scrappy early-stage environments and the discipline of a large, process-heavy organisation. He also built and ran his own startup before Brabble, it didn't ultimately succeed, but it taught him, firsthand, what it actually takes to get a product from an idea to something real users depend on, and what to do differently the next time.
That combination, someone who has already been through the failure-and-rebuild cycle once, paired with deep technical range, is a big part of why Brabble has been able to move as fast as it has since launch.
Like Debraj, the frustration was personal: too many hackathons and case studies discovered too late, scattered across emails and group chats with no single place to track them. Brabble exists to fix exactly that.
Reach out
Running a competition and want it listed? Spotted a wrong date? Building something on the API? Or just want to talk? All of it goes to the same place.