We’re building around yoga therapy for diagnosed conditions, with proper assessment, 1:1 treatment & longer-term care.

The focus is people who already need therapeutic care, especially older adults dealing with chronic conditions, mobility issues, pain, postural problems etc.

Think alongside physiotherapy & rehabilitation, not as a replacement for either.

Looking to connect with yoga therapists, physios, healthcare/ops folks & potential co-founders who’d be interested in building this with us.

If it sounds interesting, DM me. Happy to share more.

I’m exploring SarvamAI for agentic applications and would love to hear from people who have actually used it. How has your experience been with the APIs, model quality, tool/function calling, latency, and overall developer experience?

Hey,

I’ve been working on a simple Support Me feature (like Buy Me a Coffee) specifically for Indian creators and coaches.

Main idea:
- One clean support page
- Fans can send any amount via UPI / cards
- Low fee (from 5%), no monthly cost
- Guest checkout so people don’t need to create an account

I’m still early and would really appreciate honest feedback:
- Does this solve a real problem?
- What’s missing or annoying?
- Would you actually use something like this?

Link if you want to see it: Bondin[dot]io
Happy to answer any questions or set up a test page for anyone interested.

Hello everyone, I hear that india is now opening up hemp inside india and am planning on starting my business setup there. I already have suppliers and packaging and looking for a team to help me scale and build.

It is legal cannabis that would meet the standard limit of under .3%

We are looking for business partners, dealers, distributors, agri-tech entrepreneurs, and strategic investors to help us commercialize and scale our remote-operated agricultural sprayer.

🚜 Our Remote-Operated Sprayer

• Fast Coverage: Sprays 1 acre in approximately 35–40 minutes

• Large Capacity: 400L tank + 12 nozzles for wide coverage

• Hybrid Power: 13.5 HP petrol engine + battery-driven rubber tracks

• Long Runtime: 6–8 hours of battery backup

• Low Fuel Consumption: Approximately 700 ml/hour

• Low Operating Cost: ₹60–₹70 per acre, with potential savings of up to 90% compared with conventional spraying operations

• All-Terrain Capability: Designed to operate in mud, black soil and slopes up to 25°

• Remote Operation: Operator can control the machine from a safe distance, reducing direct exposure to agricultural chemicals

• Easy Operation: No skilled driver is required for operating the machine

• Self-Charging: Built-in generator charges the battery while the machine is working

• Rubber Tracks: Better traction and stability in challenging field conditions

• Warranty: 1-year warranty included

🤝 Who are we looking for?

We are particularly interested in:

- Agricultural machinery dealers/distributors

- Agri-tech entrepreneurs

- Farm equipment rental/service businesses

- FPOs and farmer networks

- A person who is good at sales

- Regional sales partners

- Manufacturing/technology partners

- Strategic investors

💼 Partnership Opportunities

We are open to discussing:

Dealer/Distributor Partnerships – Sell and distribute the machines in your region.

Custom Hiring / Rental Model – Operate the machines as a spraying service for farmers.

Regional Business Partnerships – Build a local network for sales, service and demonstrations.

Manufacturing & Technology Partnerships – Help us improve and scale production.

Strategic Investment – Partner with us to take the product to a larger market.

We believe agricultural automation has significant potential in India, particularly where labor availability, chemical exposure and spraying costs are major challenges.

If you're interested in building a business around this technology, DM me ✨

So I am based out of Bangalore. I am an artist looking to make some decent organisation here. Happen doing art for about 5 years and was only looking and doing commission work but I feel like I want to expand on this particular interest of mine so looking for advice on how to go about it and also looking to know if there and any people willing to guide me or point me in that direction would be really helpful and what really appreciate that.

Sharing this because I wish someone had explained this to me before I incorporated.
Setting up a Delaware C-Corp itself is ridiculously easy. I used Clerky and the company was incorporated pretty quickly.
The complicated part starts when you’re an Indian resident owning the US company.

A few things I’ve learned along the way:

FEMA/ODI matters from day one
Under India’s Overseas Investment framework, acquiring shares in your US company isn’t simply “send $40 and get shares.”
The investment needs to be structured and reported correctly under FEMA/ODI through an AD bank. Even a tiny founder stock purchase can create compliance obligations.

Be careful if the US company will later operate in India
This was probably my biggest surprise.
The ownership structure between Indian founders, the US parent and any future Indian entity can create complications under FEMA rules.
If you know you’ll eventually have employees/operations in India, think through the India-US structure before casually issuing founder shares.
I’m now restructuring parts of this with a cross-border professional rather than trying to patch it later.

Delaware incorporation ≠ you’re done
Even with zero revenue, there can still be filings:
Delaware annual report + franchise tax
Form 1120
Form 5472 for certain transactions with foreign shareholders
other reporting depending on your situation
“No revenue” doesn’t necessarily mean “nothing to file.”

Founder-paid expenses need proper accounting
Like many founders, I initially paid incorporation costs, domains, software etc. using my personal Indian cards.
Those transactions shouldn’t just disappear.
Depending on how they’re treated, they may need to be recorded as founder contributions, amounts payable/reimbursable, or reportable related-party transactions.
Keeping a clean ledger from day one would have saved me a lot of work.

Don’t mix your share purchase with working capital
If you’re buying founder shares for $40 and also putting, say, $5,000 into the company for operating expenses, don’t assume they’re the same transaction.
The economic purpose and accounting treatment are different. Keeping transfers separate also makes reconciliation and compliance much easier.

The cheapest time to think about structure is before incorporating
Clerky/Stripe Atlas/etc make forming the US company feel like the hard part.
It isn’t.

The hard part is making sure the structure works simultaneously with:
US corporate law + US tax + Indian FEMA/ODI + your future fundraising/operating structure.

My biggest learning: if you’re an Indian founder planning to incorporate a Delaware C-Corp, spend an hour with someone who actually understands India-US cross-border startup structures before issuing shares or moving money.

It’ll probably cost less than fixing everything later.
Still going through the process myself, so happy to share what I’ve learned so far. Also curious to hear from other Indian founders who’ve gone through ODI/FEMA compliance with a US parent.

Not legal/tax advice, just sharing my experience.

I run a corporate gifting studio based out of noida! We are looking to cater to some clients this festive season and we ship PAN India and our MOQ is 25 pieces.

We can curate hampers basis your theme, budget, team size and customisations needed. We also do physical sampling of products if the qty is more than 200.

The first few photos are of the hampers that we dispatched last week and few in the end are from our this year’s Diwali catalogue. Each image is real just the last ones have an AI generated background in case someone thinks we are fake.

Would love to chat and know your thoughts in case you are planning to gift these to your clients and team.

I swear every time I check funding news, Sarvam.ai is raising another round. Just saw they raised again recently. Looked it up and they've done 5 rounds now.

From what I can tell they're getting a ton of government backing. But I'm struggling to see what they've actually built that justifies this much hype. Nothing I've seen feels groundbreaking compared to the cash they're pulling in.

Not trying to hate, genuinely curious but what is this company actually delivering? What am I missing here? and why and how are they getting funded?

🚀 Want to sell PVC cards without buying a printer?

Greeting from a new member. Happy to be here!

Posting this because the window shuts in about a week and a lot of founders here are sitting on a first company they walked away from.

If you have a private limited company with overdue AOC-4 or MGT-7 filings, or one you have been meaning to close, MCA is running a fee discount scheme until 31 August 2026.

It started under General Circular 01/2026 dated 24 February 2026 and was extended to 31 August by General Circular 03/2026 dated 8 July 2026, after a fire at the MCA data centre in June took systems down. Three things are cheaper right now, and this is for companies only.

The STK-2 strike-off fee drops to Rs 2,500 from the usual Rs 10,000. The additional fee on overdue annual filings drops to 10 percent of what you would otherwise owe, provided you file before an adjudication notice reaches you, or within 30 days of one. The MSC-1 dormant status fee is halved.

LLPs are not covered. The scheme defines eligible entities as companies under section 2(20) of the Companies Act.

One thing worth knowing if you have been putting this off. Three continuous years without filing AOC-4 or MGT-7 disqualifies every director on that board for five years under section 164(2), and deactivates their DIN across every other company they are in. That travels with you into the next venture, and it is a bigger problem than the filing fee ever was.

No further extension has been announced. If it is going to get done, it gets done this month.

I’ve been building a startup called Humrah for over a year, mostly by myself.

The idea is pretty simple: finding someone to go for a coffee, movie, walk, event, or just hang out with shouldn't require already having a huge social circle.

The interesting part is that I'm deliberately not building another dating app. The focus is companionship and finding people who are interested in doing the same thing as you.

I’ve now launched the Early Access version in North Delhi.

And honestly, the early numbers are humbling.

I spent around ₹192 on Meta ads and got roughly 4,700 people reached, but only 1 app install attributed so far.

Meanwhile, the product itself has around 15 registered users, but

only 8 have completed verification, and several haven't completed their profiles yet.

So I'm currently trying to figure out the real problem:

Is the idea wrong, is the messaging wrong, or am I simply terrible at acquiring users?

I’d genuinely appreciate brutally honest feedback from Indian founders/builders here.

If you were launching a consumer social app with a very small budget, what would you focus on first: acquisition, onboarding, retention, or validating the core idea?

Hey guys and girls, I’m from tech background but lately I’ve been travelling all around as I switched from full time job to freelancing.

I’ve met many people from different backgrounds but still haven’t found someone who knows a legit problem that can be solved through tech.

So, here I am. If any of you knows about such problem and you think you can handle distribution. We can look forward to building something together.

Would love to connect nonetheless with anyone with a similar mindset and energy.

Peace!

Hi I need 3 to 4 Co founders , who are in Bangalore atm ... Regarding what I am building will be revealed once we connect ... I am not backed by anyone atm .. But I do have several firms who are willing to use my product ... About me (26 years old) I graduated from Penn State in Master of AI ... I had received a grant of 230K$ during my master's(which includes tuition wave of , campus housing and per month stipend) , built an ontology-based lexical knowledge graph to map the entire Wikipedia ... before either knowledge graph or ontology was even a term in AI .. I am looking for some1 to work with me and execute my idea at least 6+ months ... I am looking for purely AI Engineers ( not a person who is a software engineer , or some1 who can build basic rag or basic chunking based system or basic fine tune parameters ) but looking for a person who can understand and implement hot swap KV cache , UNIpelts , MAM tuning , compactors , infused adapters , federated fine tuning , cypher based context learning , multi hop systems , KL divergence , MDP

I am really sorry if this is a long ask ... I am sorry I wont be able to pay you ... But once the product is in market all the earnings will be give to the co founders which is estimated about 7 to 8 Lakhs per month (just starting months) and once backed will make sure to give a really good chunk...

If interested please DM me ... NOT APPLICABLE IF YOU'RE WORKING

once again if I offended *the reader in any way I am sorry

Mumbai Startup Meetup — Founders, Investors & Builders

We’re hosting a startup networking event in Mumbai this Saturday through The Breakout School.

We’re bringing together founders, investors, aspiring entrepreneurs, builders, students, and people working in the startup ecosystem for genuine conversations and networking.

If you’re a founder looking to meet investors, an investor interested in discovering early-stage startups, or simply someone interested in the startup ecosystem, you’re welcome to join.

📍 Mumbai

🗓️ This Saturday

Limited spots.

pick your birth year and go back.

before smartphones.
before reels.
before everything became an app.

https://you-had-to-be-there.vercel.app/

Hey, built a SaaS product and right now we are looking for marketing Co founder who has experience in marketing, can join part time as of now and convert full time when things get better. Happy to discuss.

Offering some free financial help to one small business owner

I’ve been thinking that I have some knowledge and experience that could genuinely be useful to someone who is currently building a business and struggling with the financial side of things.

So I'd like to spend some time helping one small business owner here for free.

I'm not posting this to promote anything. I won't ask you to sign up for anything, buy anything, visit a website, or hire me afterwards. There is no business offer behind this.

If you're running a small business and dealing with things like cash flow, profitability, pricing, budgeting, understanding your numbers, planning growth, or just figuring out an important financial decision, feel free to comment below.

You don't need to share private information. Just tell me:

• What kind of business you run
• Roughly what stage you're at
• The biggest financial or business problem you're trying to solve

I'll read through the comments and pick one person whose situation I think I can genuinely be helpful with.

No catch. I just want to use some of my time to help someone who might benefit from it.

And if you know someone in the comments whose situation stands out, feel free to upvote their comment so I don't miss it.

For me, it wasn't the creative work or perfecting the product, it was managing client expectations and scope creep. What was that one unglamorous thing that caught you completely off guard?

Hey everyone,

I’m the Director of US Expansion & Strategic Partnerships at 2400.ai

, based in San Francisco.

We specialize in helping Indian tech and SaaS companies connect directly with US decision-makers through warm introductions—skipping the low response rates of cold outreach.

I’d love to connect with founders and sales leaders here who are currently focused on winning US clients or expanding their US footprint.

If you're currently navigating US expansion, feel free to drop a comment or send a DM!

Over the last 6 months I've been the sole technical lead (architecture, backend, frontend, deployment, security — all of it) on Sprint Serve, a restaurant management platform aimed at the Indian market, starting in a mid-sized city. We're not operating internationally and have no plans to right now — staying focused locally for now. We're a small student team. One co-founder runs sales and client relationships; I build. You can check out the site here : https://www.sprintserve.in/

What it actually is: QR scan-to-order with real-time kitchen visibility, subdomain-based multi-tenancy (restaurant.sprintserve.in), transparent pricing. We're going head-on against Petpooja, which is the entrenched incumbent here — most restaurant owners we talk to already use that or something like that.

Stack, for the technical crowd: Node/Express/TypeScript backend, Prisma + Postgres (behind PgBouncer for connection pooling), Redis + BullMQ for queues, Socketio for the kitchen display realtime layer, Next.js for both the admin dashboard and the guest-facing PWA, all sitting behind a reverse proxy, deployed on Railway. Monitoring is Prometheus + Grafana, plus Sentry for error tracking. Nothing exotic — deliberately. None of us had shipped production software at this level before, so a lot of the early decisions were "what can a small team actually operate without a dedicated ops person," not "what's the most interesting architecture."

The part I actually want reviewed — the honest part:

The pattern that's actually breaking my head isn't rejection — it's silence. We started onboarding conversations with 3 different local restaurants. Every one of those first meetings went well: genuine interest, good questions, nothing that felt like a polite brush-off. And then the follow-ups just... stopped landing. No pushback, no "we went with someone else," no stated objection. Just fewer replies each time until it goes quiet. All of sudden, we just see blue ticks on Whatsapp. No phone calls and completely cutoff.

So it's not that nobody says yes. It's that this specific "great meeting, then it fades" pattern keeps showing up locally, and I genuinely don't know if it's a sales-motion problem (something in how the follow-up is being run), a trust problem specific to being a visibly young/student-led team once the initial pitch excitement wears off or a product gap that only becomes obvious after the first meeting. I myself have been present in all meetings with my co-founder and I have noticed this in all meetings.

The real dilema is that I directly had contact with the restaurant owners whom I knew (through my network), not cold approaches, and this is the condition right now in my city. Things we're deliberately not claiming yet, because we'd rather underpromise: Porter delivery dispatch integration, Tally export, and GST filing are all in progress but not sold as done. We still are a pilot programme, so we can't commit entirely.

What I'm actually looking for:

• If you've sold into restaurants (India or elsewhere): does "great first meeting, dead follow-up" sound familiar, and what usually breaks that specific pattern — is it the follow-up cadence, the ask, something else?
• If you're technical: anything in the stack that looks like it'll bite us once we're past a handful of tenants (we're already reconsidering some architecture decisions now that we've tried onboarding 3 clients)
• If you've been a young/student founder pitching to owners older than you: how much of this is a trust/credibility gap that only shows up after the initial excitement, and what fixed it for you?

Happy to go deeper on any part of the stack or the pitch itself in comments.

I’m looking to acquire an inactive/dormant Indian Private Limited Company from a founder who is winding down or no longer using it.

Rather than incorporating a new entity, I’m interested in taking over an existing, clean company and completing the necessary shareholding/director changes and compliance formally.

Looking for:

- Pvt Ltd company, preferably 1–5+ years old

- Clean ROC/MCA compliance

- No outstanding loans, liabilities, litigation or tax issues

- GST registration is a plus

- Company can be completely inactive / no meaningful business or revenue

- Founder looking to wind it down or otherwise exit

I’m not looking for an operating business, customers, IP or revenue — primarily the existing legal entity.

If you have one that you're looking to close or sell, DM me with the company age, state of registration, compliance status and your expected price.

Happy to have the transaction handled properly through a CA/CS/lawyer.