At the End of 11th Grade, I Launched CwgBookings.com With My Two Friends

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Hey friends,

I never had too many friends in school — maybe just 5 to 10 people I used to talk to.

Among them were Kunj Gupta and Sehdev Rana.

Kunj had a business mindset, and Sehdev knew how to build websites using Dreamweaver software.

At that time, the Commonwealth Games were about to happen in Delhi, and Kunj had this idea:
"Let’s start a travel agency named CwgBookings.com. We'll help incoming travelers with hotel bookings and shopping, and earn commissions."

I wasn’t really working on anything else back then, so I said okay.

We used to sit at my house and work on the site. Sehdev built the website, and I started bringing traffic through content writing.

Obviously, we were still just school students, so no bookings came in right away — and within 2-3 months, we stopped working on the site.

During that time, I had also started my own WordPress blog, and that’s how I learned how to make websites and start blogging.

Sehdev paid for the domain name, I paid for the web hosting, and Kunj didn’t contribute anything financially.

The total cost was around ₹2,000–₹2,500, and when the site failed, Kunj refused to pay his share.

Later, Kunj and I participated in a quiz competition, and he bought a book for me as a way of settling things.
But honestly — that’s not the right way to handle money.

Even though CwgBookings.com failed, I learned some important skills from that project:

  • How to buy a domain

  • How to get hosting

  • How to create a blog

I had some money in my PayPal account, so I used it to create my own tech/youth blog and named it:
👉 WizardJournal.com

At that time, I was really into Harry Potter, so the name just felt perfect to me — WizardJournal.com

That blog actually did well.
I made a decent amount of money from it later and spent a good chunk of it on gadgets and other cool stuff.

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