This is the start of a build-in-public series. No code yet. Just the why — because that's where everything starts. I Call Myself an Indie Hacker. But Right Now I'm Sitting in a Lecture Hall. My bio says "indie hacker swinging through the jungle." The reality is slightly less cinematic: I'm a computer engineering student, and lately my lectures have been covering Django. Something clicked. I'd been turning over a product idea in my head for a while — a privacy-first calendar, built for people who actually care about where their data lives. And suddenly I had a framework I was learning in depth, a real reason to go beyond the tutorial, and a project worth building. So here we are. The Problem Google Calendar is the obvious choice for most people. It works, it's everywhere, it's free. But free means your events, your routines, your life, are sitting on someone else's servers. For a lot of people that's a fine tradeoff. For me, it's not.…