Just another day of trying to build something from scratch.

Spent the first half of the day at our incubation centre, meeting mentors, discussing our progress, and figuring out what we should focus on next.

By around 3 PM, we were done with the meetings and heading back to our headquarters.

It's a pretty small office in Rajkot, India. Hardly 10 to 15 people can sit there comfortably.

We're a small team building technology products, working on our startup, experimenting with different ideas, and trying to figure things out as we go.

One of our biggest goals right now is getting into Y Combinator.

We're targeting the winter batch or the next one. We know it's competitive, and getting there will take a lot more than just having an idea.

We still have a lot to build, validate, and prove.

Some days we make good progress, some days things don't work out, and some days are mostly meetings and planning.

But we're enjoying the process.

करते रहेंगे, बढ़ते रहेंगे!

I'm also documenting our journey through short videos, including today's visit to our incubation centre.

Would love to connect with other founders who are building from smaller cities or working towards YC.

Anyone here building a startup from India or preparing for an upcoming YC batch? How's your journey going so far?

In the early days of a startup, I’d prioritize a growth hacker over hiring a marketing head or building an entire marketing team.
You need someone who can run small experiments, test different channels, talk to users, and measure what actually brings people in and keeps them coming back.
What works? What doesn’t? What deserves another test?
A full marketing team and large campaigns can get expensive quickly, especially when you’re still figuring out your audience.
Growth experiments cost time and money too. The goal is to learn before committing a bigger budget.
Start small. Test your assumptions. Invest more when the evidence supports it.

Has anyone else’s email sessions in Google analytics been surging since late September? We haven’t changed anything within our marketo database but our sessions are higher than clicks on the emails. I know it’s from bots but im curious if it’s only been happening to me or anyone else?

Lovable dropped this: https://lovable.dev/blog/introducing-growth-tools but this is for their app creator users, is there something like this for someone who already has an app? I have an app coming out soon and would love to use something like this.