Synced

LAST UPDATED ON: 22 April 2026, WED

No AI used to write the Post 🙂

Objective

To achieve flow state by fully immersing in the work whenever required. Yes, whenever required.
Work is the part of life but not life. Fully dedicate yourself to work when it’s work time ; )

Thinking behind it

The time we see in our smartphones or wrist watch is of no use for us untill unless we have to deliver a task to someone or we have to meet someone at a decided time. What is more important to us is the amount of time left in the day before we go to sleep.

Core Concepts

Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion as a result of which a task might just need 2 hours of focused work consumes our entire day. To fix it, there is a technique called Time boxing which we will implement here to get sh*t done when only when required.

Action Plan

MVP: Build a website that will have a 24-hours countdown timer, which is synced with EPOCH time, that can be accessed from anywhere.
Improve the UI/UX of it to make it more aesthetically pleasing.
Apply psychology-based design principles and modify the UI/UX of it.
Build a hardware MVP V1: A device that shows the same time as shown on the website.
MVP V2: Make it portable so that it is easy to carry.
Final build: Make a custom PCB and make it wearable.
Make it accessible to everyone! Create content, fix the SEO of the website.

Tools I’m using

Follow along, I’m exploring new and crazy tool for it

Software Tools:

Claude (Free version) – To write the code for it, why? because it allows visualization when developing
Gemini (Pro verison) – To learn the related concepts.
ChatGPT (Free Plan) – To get help in fixing bugs and learning.
Hostinger – For hosting the website (subdomain to be specific, yes that synced.padmalayarawal.com is called subdomain )
Replit – Trying it out to improve UI/UX.
Github – For version controlling.
Canva – For Thumbnail

Hardware Tools:

Soldering Iron (along with soldering wire and flux )
Hot Glue gun
Bambulab A1 3D printer with ESUN PLA+ Filament (*not sponsored)

Resources:

CAD Files, circuit diagrams, and firmware are on GitHub ( link will be updated soon).

Hardware used:

ESP32 XIAO board
0.96″ OLED Display
Lipo battery, whichever fits in the size.

Learnings

PROBLEM: I hosted the blog on webpage padmalayarawal.com/synced, and the app on a subdomain synced.padmalayarawal.com looks good, right? No, whenever I’m trying to visit a webpage, I was redirected to the contents of the subdomain, although the link was to a webpage.

RCA: The webpage and subdomain were placed in the same folder in the Hostinger file manager (hpanel for me), because of which both the links are redirecting me to the same index.html file. I have created a folder named “synced” in the public_html folder, and hence the issue.

RESOLUTION: I have created a subfolder in public_html with a name “subdomain” followed by moving the synced folder here. BOOM, problem solved. How do I know, it has been resolved ? Because you can read this blog 🙂

Try it (It’s FREE)

https://synced.padmalayarawal.com

Progress

Week X: I got this idea on 10 Jan 2026, I figured out to how to have a subdomain and made V1 of the webpage LIVE.

Week 1: 19 April- 25 April

completed the UI improvement (Not live yet) and posted this article. Resolved the blog and subdomain hosting bug.
Dropped first article draft

Week 2: 26Apr – 2 May