Synced

LAST UPDATED ON: In 1st week of May ; )

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 a part of life, but not life. Fully dedicate yourself to work when it’s work time and live the rest with no guilt ; )

Thinking behind it

The time we see on our smartphones or wrist watches or any time-keeping devices is of no use for us untill unless we have to deliver a task to our boss or we have to meet a friend in a cafe to rant about work at a decided time. What is more important to us is the amount of time we are left with in the day before we go to doze off.

Why will it work ? (Core Concepts)

Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion, as a result of which a task that might just need 2 hours of focused work consumes our entire day. To fix it, a technique called Time boxing which we will implement here to get sh*t done when only when it is 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 a 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 version) – 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 a 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 the name “subdomain” and moved the synced folder here.
PROBLEM: Everything was working as expected, but after a few days, everything crashed, and my website showed error 404.

RCA: The issue with the subdomain still pointing to the old file, which wasn’t automatically updated to the new file location.

RESOLUTION: We have to update the file location to which it is pointing to, so I deleted the current subdomain, which was pointing to an older file location, because I wasn’t able to find an option to edit the file location. I recreated the subdomain, which is pointing to the new file. BOOM, it worked!

UNKNOWN: Why did it work for the first time then?

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 the first article draft

Week 2: 26Apr – 2 May

Resolved the issue of the link not working.
New version is live.