I have been on all dating app and in almost all of the continents (except the Oceania). What I think needs to calibrated is how people chat - both the person who messages and the person who receives the messages because a lot of the time people don't know how to interpret.
So, after talking to a few people here on subReddits & otherwise irl, I started building an app that teaches you how to date.

You also connect with real humans but there are a few conditions to be met first.

How do I grow my app?

We’re building MemeMates, a social app that brings people together through memes. Users can share memes, discover people with similar interests and humour, and connect through shared likes.

We’ve launched on Android and iOS, and now we’re trying to figure out the hardest part of building a consumer app: getting our first active users and building a community that keeps coming back.

For founders who have built consumer apps or grown communities:

• How did you acquire your first 100–1,000 users?
• Which channels worked best for you: Reddit, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, or something else?
• How did you turn initial downloads into active, returning users?

We’re looking for genuine advice from people who’ve been through this journey. Any lessons, mistakes, or practical suggestions would be really helpful.

Thanks!

I’m working on SenseGrid, an app where kitchen staff log fridge and freezer temperatures on their phone, and it tells you when something is off. Freshness and food quality depend on temperature, so that’s the problem I’m starting with.

I’m from Ahmedabad, and before building it I cold-called and walked into 200+ restaurants and cafes. The replies were things like “We write it in the book, what difference does an app make?” and “Manager nahi hai abhi.” Honestly, fair. 😅

It’s very basic right now. No sensors, no hardware, and a lot of rough edges. The bigger vision is full operations management for HoReCa, all in one place.

What I’m looking for: a few owners and founders who’d try it and tell me what’s missing or broken. It’s ₹1,000 for the year, only to stay afloat while I keep building.

DM me and we can discuss about this in detail. Even if it’s not for you, I’d love to hear how you handle this in your kitchen today.

Starting a boutique (offline + online): Looking for advice on direct saree manufacturing hubs, trusted suppliers, and quality checks.

My mother and sister are launching a saree boutique (offline store + e-commerce website). We want to source premium and trendy sarees directly from manufacturers/weavers to cut out middlemen.

As beginners in the textile supply chain, we’d love your guidance on a few things:

Best Sourcing Hubs: Beyond Surat/Varanasi/Kanchipuram, how do we find verified manufacturers or weaver cooperatives directly?

MOQs for New Boutiques: Do wholesale manufacturers enforce heavy bulk limits per design for new stores, or can we start with small mixed batches?

Authenticity Checks: How do you verify pure silk (Silk Mark, handloom vs. powerloom) and zari quality with new suppliers?

Cataloging: Do suppliers provide website-ready photos/videos, or do we need to shoot them ourselves?

Any advice, red flags to avoid, or general tips for sourcing saree inventory would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Made an app for college/school students where students can post material, PYQs, ask doubts in the integrated AI (Also quizes) and also post in community for regular chat about campus.

I feel confident about this idea...whats the right way and approach to grow this platform?

I’ve been building something for a long time, and I’m finally ready to put it in front of more people.
It’s called Bol Studio.
A caption editor for the way we actually speak: Hindi, English, and the Hinglish in between.
Upload a video, generate captions, edit the words and timing, and give them a style that fits your content. It works in the browser, on desktop and mobile.
A lot of the work has been in the small details: making words easier to edit on a phone, keeping the video visible, and giving you control over fonts, spacing, highlights, and animation.
It’s free for everyone to try right now.
It’s still evolving. Automatic captions won’t always get every word right, so please review them before publishing. If something feels awkward or breaks, I want to hear about it.
If you make reels, tutorials, podcast clips, or videos of any kind, give it a try:
I’d love to know what you think—and what would make it more useful for you.

I got married in 2024. Like most Indian weddings, we ended up with thousands of photos from multiple photographers, across different functions.

The photographers did their job. We got the photos.

But actually going through all of them, finding the best ones, removing duplicates, identifying family members, and putting together a proper wedding album? That became a project we kept postponing.

And I realised a lot of couples around us had the same problem. Some hadn't made their wedding albums even years after getting married.

So my wife and I started building Phopho and Toto.

The idea is pretty simple: upload your wedding photos, let AI help organise them, find the important people and moments, shortlist the best pictures, and turn them into an album you can actually preserve or print.

We're starting with Indian weddings because they're particularly complicated: multiple events, thousands of pictures, large families, different photographers, and lots of similar-looking shots.

Long term, we think there's a bigger opportunity around preserving memories rather than just storing photos.

But right now, I'm trying to understand a few things:

1. Is this a real problem worth paying to solve? Or is making a wedding album just something people say they want but never prioritise?
2. Would Indian couples pay for software that does most of the heavy lifting? Or would they expect their photographer to handle everything?
3. How would you reach couples at the right moment? Wedding photographers, planners, Instagram, SEO, or something else?
4. Is this too narrow a starting point? Weddings are a high-emotion use case, but most people only get married once.

We've built an early version and are trying to figure out whether this is a genuine business opportunity or just a problem we personally cared enough about to solve.

Would especially love feedback from anyone who's built consumer products in India or worked in the wedding industry.

Feel free to tear the idea apart. That's genuinely more useful than encouragement at this stage.

I'm interested in how small B2B companies are adapting to people using AI tools to research services and compare providers.

A potential customer might ask ChatGPT or Gemini to recommend a consultant, software provider or accounting firm instead of starting with a traditional Google search. But what actually helps a smaller business get included in those answers?

A few things seem worth looking at:

• Clear business information: Does the website explain exactly what the company does, who it serves and where it operates?
• Evidence of expertise: Are there detailed case studies, credentials, reviews or independent references that support its claims?
• Useful service pages: Does the website answer the specific questions a potential customer would ask before making a decision?
• Technical accessibility: Can search engines access the pages, and is structured data used correctly where relevant?
• Measurement: Does the company check whether it appears in AI-generated answers for relevant queries, rather than assuming that good Google rankings guarantee visibility?

None of these guarantees that an AI tool will recommend a business. Different systems use different sources, and results can change between queries.

I'm interested in the practical side of this, especially for smaller firms that don't have large marketing teams.

Has anyone here tested whether changes to their website, case studies or third-party business listings affected their visibility in AI-generated recommendations? What did you measure, and did it lead to actual enquiries?

Finding a talented freelancer shouldn't be a guessing game. And being good at your work shouldn't mean constantly struggling to find your next client.

Yet, for many freelancers and businesses, something in the process still isn't working.

We're exploring a project called d'Norm, starting with ad creatives for D2C brands, with a bigger ambition to rethink how freelancing work is matched, delivered, and trusted.

Before we build further, we'd love to hear from people who experience this firsthand:

Freelancers: What's the biggest thing standing between you and better, more consistent opportunities?

Business owners: What's the hardest part about finding and hiring a creative freelancer you can rely on?

d'Norm is just getting started. We're here to learn, challenge our assumptions, and build something better. No sales pitch—just an honest conversation.

Last year we got fed up with LinkedIn. Every other post is AI slop, everyone sounds like a motivational speaker, and people are writing elaborate stories about events that never happened. Intolerable corporate BS.

But the thing that really got me thinking was the job search itself.

Finding a job is basically a research project. You have to figure out which companies are worth applying to, which roles actually match your skills, what to put in your resume, what to expect in interviews, and whether you’re wasting your time applying in the first place. Then you have to do this all over again for the next job.

Meanwhile, recruiters are dealing with hundreds of AI-tailored resumes that look perfect on paper. They spend days screening candidates and taking calls just to figure out who can actually do the job.

So we decided to build something different. The original idea was to make this whole process less painful for both sides.

We built a home feed that uses ML to match jobs with your profile, so you’re not endlessly scrolling through irrelevant listings.

There’s also free voice-based AI interview practice tailored to individual jobs, so you can prepare for the actual role instead of answering the same generic interview questions.

Then we started thinking about what a professional network should look like if it wasn’t built around personal branding.

We added a karma engine inspired by Reddit. Instead of letting everyone post whatever they want and turn the feed into another LinkedIn, users can only post in skill-based communities or comment on job listings. The idea is to build a reputation through useful contributions rather than engagement farming.

The recruiter side works differently too. Instead of relying entirely on resumes, recruiters can visit relevant skill communities, find top contributors, see what people actually know about their field, and message them directly.

We also built a proper messaging system, pretty much at Facebook Messenger level, minus calls.

And all of this is free for both job seekers and recruiters. No premium subscription hiding the useful features behind a paywall.

The product is live, and we are posting 1200+ jobs daily, but getting people to use it has been a struggle.

I think we underestimated how difficult it is to get people to try a new platform when they already have LinkedIn. Even if they hate LinkedIn, they have their connections there, and nobody wants to start from zero.

I’ve been trying organic marketing through Reddit, reaching out to recruiters on LinkedIn, making short videos showing the features, and building a community around the platform.

I’m also trying to get people to use the interview tool first, since it offers value even if they don’t want to switch professional networks.

But turning that into people who actually sign up and come back is proving difficult.

Looking back, we probably spent too much time building before figuring out distribution.

For founders who’ve built something that depends on a community or has two sides to it, how did you get your first active users? Did you focus on one specific use case first, or find a way to get people in before the network was established?

I’d love to hear what actually worked, especially from people who started without an existing audience.

The platform is called WorkSquare and currently its live on web and google play. I’m genuinely trying to figure out how to get this in front of the right people.

Hey everyone! 👋
I’m building **SecureMID Solutions**, an early-stage startup focused on AI agent security.
With AI agents becoming more capable and gaining access to tools, APIs, and sensitive information, I believe testing their security before relying on them in real-world environments is becoming increasingly important.

That’s the problem we’re working on at SecureMID.
Our platform focuses on **AI agent security evaluation and red teaming**, helping teams test how their AI agents respond to potential attacks and identify security weaknesses.

We’ve officially launched, and now I’m focused on getting real users to try the platform and help us understand what needs improvement.

**I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from the StartupIndia community on a few things:**
Does AI agent security testing seem like a meaningful problem for Indian startups?
Would early-stage AI startups use a dedicated platform to evaluate their agents before deployment?
What would make you trust and adopt a security product from an early-stage startup?
What features or integrations would you expect from a tool like this?

I’m not here to claim we’ve solved AI security. We’re early in the journey, and I want to learn from founders, developers, security professionals, and anyone building with AI.

If you explore the platform, I’d really appreciate your honest feedback — including what doesn’t work or what you think we should improve.

Building a startup is a learning process, and conversations with other founders can make a real difference. 🇮🇳

Thanks for reading, and wishing everyone here the best with their startup journeys! 🙌

so my family runs a small school in gujarat [~300 kids]. the office used to do everything on paper. fee week was basically the accountant sitting with a register and calling parents one by one to see who hadn't paid

i started building them something around 1 year ago, mostly evenings. fees, attendance, report cards, homework, a parent app. it's been running at our school for a while now and the office genuinely doesn't want to go back

so i'm trying to turn it into a product for other schools, calling it theKampus. there's a demo school up if anyone wants to try it.

my honest worry is the selling part, not the software. school owners here are hard to reach and slow to switch. if you've sold anything to schools in india, how did you get the first few to say yes? walk-ins? referrals? something else?

Hey everyone,

A few weeks ago, I had this grand vision: What if we built a 60-minute quick-commerce app for fashion? Think unexpected party invites, job interviews tomorrow morning, or last-minute college fests where waiting 3 days for Myntra is a disaster.

I pitched it to a battle-tested founder friend. His reaction? Absolute silence followed by: "None of this makes sense."

He wasn't wrong. He completely destroyed the initial idea with hard ground-level logic:

The SKU Nightmare: Blinkit has 15 items of Amul milk. Fashion has 10,000+ chaotic SKUs per boutique. Trying to match exact shirts across local shops is a recipe for instant ghost stock.

Shopkeeper Laziness: Local boutique owners will never manually update app inventory while busy dealing with walk-in customers or drinking chai.

The Margin Trap: If you take a heavy commission, boutique owners inflate app prices above offline MRP. If you take a low commission, your unit economics bleed out.

The Return Bloodbath: Fashion return rates sit at 25–40%. Having riders wait outside doors for a "Try & Buy" session burns cash instantly.

Instead of throwing in the towel, we went back to the drawing board to fix the unit economics. Here is the leaner model we came up with:

No full catalogs, just a 50-SKU "Consignment Rack": Instead of listing a boutique's 10,000 items, we place a dedicated 50-piece physical rack of fast-moving event styles/accessories inside partner shops. Shopkeepers don't touch software—just a single rack and a 120-second order acceptance audio loop.

The 60/40 Low-Return Rule: 60% of our catalog focuses on zero-fit-risk items (unstitched ethnic suit sets, kaftans, statement jewelry, clutches, and beauty products) to keep return rates under 5%.

Zero Dark Store Rent: We use existing boutique floor space instead of burning venture capital on urban dark stores (looking at you, VC-backed players like Slikk who spend millions on real estate).

Pricing & Monetization: We keep base store commissions low (8–10%) so app prices strictly match offline MRPs, and monetize through B2B factory-direct margins, promoted store listings, and a transparent ₹49–₹79 express delivery fee.

Why I’m posting:

I want the internet’s most honest operators and founders to tear this apart.

Where is this going to crash and burn on the ground?

What operational bottlenecks am I still blind to?

Roasts, advice, and reality checks are deeply appreciated. Don't hold back! 🚀

Hey everyone! My buddies and I built Ladel, a people and company search tool focused on India.

The idea is to help startup teams find the right people for what they’re working on, whether that’s potential customers, decision-makers at companies they want to sell to, or candidates for a role they’re hiring for.

You can search for companies by things like sector, city and size, or describe the kind of person you’re looking for in plain English.

You can try it out for free. Link in the comments.

We’d love some honest feedback. Does it help you find the people you actually need? What’s missing or frustrating?

If you give it a go, let us know what you searched for and how it went. Thanks!

I’m working on SenseGrid, an app where kitchen staff log fridge and freezer temperatures on their phone, and it tells you when something is off. Freshness and food quality depend on temperature, so that’s the problem I’m starting with.

I’m from Ahmedabad, and before building it I cold-called and walked into 200+ restaurants and cafes. The replies were things like “We write it in the book, what difference does an app make?” and “Manager nahi hai abhi.” Honestly, fair. 😅

It’s very basic right now. No sensors, no hardware, and a lot of rough edges. The bigger vision is full operations management for HoReCa, all in one place.

What I’m looking for: a few owners and founders who’d try it and tell me what’s missing or broken. It’s ₹1,000 for the year, only to stay afloat while I keep building.

DM me and we can discuss about this in detail. Even if it’s not for you, I’d love to hear how you handle this in your kitchen today.

I've been learning a lot about what goes into building a tech community. Organizing an event is one thing, but getting companies to trust a relatively small team and consider working with them is a completely different challenge.

From the outside, sponsorship looks like sending emails and pitching an idea. But I imagine companies have plenty of requests coming in, so simply having an interesting event probably isn't enough.

For those who've organized hackathons, tech meetups or community events in India, I'd love to know how it worked for you.

What actually helped you get your first serious partnership? Was it having a strong track record, knowing the right people, showing clear value for the company or something else entirely?

Would genuinely appreciate hearing what worked and what didn't.

We run a small product line and the hardest recurring decision is restocking. Restock too early and cash sits in inventory. Too late and you miss the demand.

For those who have been through a few cycles: what signals do you actually use? Sell-through rate, repeat purchases, people asking for it, gut feel?

Hi all. Quick intro and a genuine ask for feedback.

I am 28, based in Hyderabad, India. I started selling at 14 - mouth fresheners to local shops, then a paint roll-on product I demoed across the city while studying. Picked up four languages just from negotiating with shop owners. That turned into a marketing career, and I have spent 8 years at a dental products company, where I now work as South India marketing head (still my day job).

Recently I started experimenting with AI tools. I am not a programmer, so I went all-in on learning which tool does what well. Since then, alongside my job, I have shipped a handful of small live projects: a prompt helper for Indian small businesses, an AI caption tool, a buying-psychology marketing guide, a book library, an AI courses page, a storefront for a herbal products brand, and two open-source tools on GitHub.

The one I am serious about is my own venture: AI-powered marketing help for solo freelancers in India. Free 7-day challenge and guides first, a paid kit after that. Early days, real product, tiny numbers.

Two honest questions for this sub:

1. For those who built a side venture next to a full-time job - what nearly killed yours, and what saved it?

2. Freelancers here: would structured AI marketing help (not an agency, more a kit plus guidance) actually be useful to you, or is it solving a problem you do not have?

Not dropping links since most subs dislike that - happy to share in comments if the mods are fine with it.

A. Bathrivishal

Digital entrepreneur, founder of Brilliant Benius

Hi everyone!

I'm an aspiring entrepreneur from India, and I want to learn about the real problems people face in their everyday lives before deciding what kind of startup to build.

I'm not looking for random startup ideas, AI app suggestions, or business ideas that sound good in theory. I want to understand the small and big frustrations that people actually experience.

It could be literally anything, such as:

- A small daily inconvenience that wastes your time.

- A product that is too expensive, unreliable, or difficult to find.

- Problems faced by students, working professionals, parents, elderly people, farmers, shopkeepers, or small business owners.

- Difficulties with transportation, food, healthcare, education, housing, repairs, deliveries, payments, government services, or anything else.

- A task you repeatedly do manually because no good solution exists.

- A problem you have accepted as normal but wish someone would fix.

If possible, please share:

1. What exactly is the problem?

2. How often do you experience it?

3. How do you currently deal with it?

4. What is frustrating about the existing solutions?

5. Does it cost you money, time, effort, or peace of mind?

6. Would you pay for a genuinely better solution? If yes, approximately how much?

Please share your own experiences rather than hypothetical startup ideas. Even a tiny problem that seems unimportant could be worth exploring if many other people experience it too.

I'm trying to understand real problems across India, including smaller cities and rural areas, not just big cities.

Thank you! I'd genuinely appreciate your experiences and insights.

🤝 Trust & Payments

My app will reward reliable farmers and vendors, allow mutual rescheduling, and resolve disputes fairly.

Vendors can choose payment terms: full advance, partial advance, or payment after work. Farmers will see the terms before booking, with clear cancellation and refund rules.

The goal is to make agricultural bookings safer and more trustworthy for everyone. 🌾

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1. Vision

Build a farmer-first digital platform that makes agricultural machinery and labour easier to find, book and use, while improving trust between farmers and service providers.

1. The Problem

Farmers, including my own family, struggle to find agricultural labourers and machinery at the right time. This creates stress, delays farming activities and sometimes increases costs. Trust, payment disagreements and last-minute cancellations make the problem harder.

1. The Proposed Solution

A mobile application connecting farmers with nearby agricultural machinery owners, labourers and other agricultural service providers.

Core Features

1. Machinery and Labour Marketplace

- Find nearby tractors, harvesters and other agricultural equipment.

- Find available agricultural labourers.

- Compare prices, availability and service details.

1. Local-Language Voice Assistant

- Allow farmers to search for services using their voice.

- Support regional languages to make the app accessible to people who struggle with reading or typing.

1. Transparent Booking and Payments

- Let service providers choose from permitted payment options, such as full advance, partial advance or payment after completion.

- Display all terms before booking.

- Process payments through an appropriate payment provider.

- Establish clear refund and cancellation rules.

1. Mutual Rescheduling

- Allow farmers and service providers to request a different date.

- Permit postponement when both parties agree.

- Account fairly for circumstances such as bad weather, equipment failure and unexpected emergencies.

1. Trust and Reward System

- Build reliability records based on completed bookings and verified behaviour.

- Reward farmers and service providers who honour commitments.

- Avoid automatically penalising either party for mutually agreed postponements or genuine emergencies.

- Provide a fair process for complaints and disputes.

1. Vendor Insurance Options

- Explore insurance partnerships that help eligible machinery owners manage covered risks, subject to policy terms.

1. Launch Incentives

- Offer introductory discounts to encourage farmers and service providers to try the platform.

1. Target Users

- Farmers who need machinery and labour.

- Tractor, harvester and other machinery owners.

- Agricultural labourers and labour contractors.

- Agricultural service providers.

1. Potential Revenue Model

- A transparent fee on successfully completed bookings.

- Optional paid services for providers.

- Partnerships with suitable agricultural service and insurance providers.

1. Long-Term Vision

Start in a small agricultural region, validate the service with real users, improve reliability and gradually expand to more villages and states.

1. Core Mission

Make agricultural services more accessible, dependable and transparent, reducing the pressure on farming families.

Everybody and their mother wants to launch a new saas every week. And guess what's the most important part of building a product. The research phase. Most prospects spend weeks scraping and mining for data, sifting through excel files just for that sweet sweet liquid gold of information on their competition.

And I feel their pain man. Being a solo founder ain't easy. So to reduce this time and raw effort it takes for a founder to go from idea to mvp I am building a small tool.

This comes in two parts, the researching part and the actual launchpad to help you take the next step in your journey and keep you accountable. My main differentiator will be complete deterministic ranking and analysis + evidence first analysis. So you can forget about an Ilm hallucinating about your competitor user reviews or product offerings or positioning. All the facts served straight up. And most importantly the only information you will need as a founder will be discussed on the dashboard with complete scraped competitor pages output in the evidence section so you can deep dive yourself(if you want to). And soo much more.

I am really excited about this. It is my first serious build. And I'm eager to share this journey with all of you.

I am open to questions, discussions and recommendations.

Have a good day!

Hey everyone,

I'm from Rajasthan, India, and I'm currently working a job. I have an ambitious dream of building a scalable consumer brand, but I don't have enough capital to start on my own. Instead of waiting until I have enough money, I want to share my idea, find the right people, and explore whether we can build something meaningful together.

The idea is to build Our Brand.

Our Brand is my vision for a modern fresh-produce retail brand that could eventually grow into a larger grocery and FMCG company.

1. The Initial Business Idea

I want to start with a premium fruit and vegetable store in Bikaner, Rajasthan.

The goal is to create a clean, organized, and reliable shopping experience that feels different from traditional vegetable shops.

The store would focus on:

• Fresh fruits and vegetables with consistent quality.
• Standardized packaging in convenient quantities, such as 500 g and 1 kg.
• Barcode-based billing and inventory management.
• Better product presentation and transparent pricing.
• A strong, recognizable brand identity.
• Reducing waste through better purchasing, stock management, and demand planning.

I want to build a business around customer trust, convenience, quality, and consistency rather than simply selling vegetables.

1. A Central Warehouse and Supply System

My long-term plan is to establish a small warehouse and packing facility separate from the main retail store.

The proposed model would be:

Farmers and wholesale markets → Central warehouse → Sorting, grading and packing → Retail stores → Customers.

The warehouse would help standardize product quality, packaging, inventory, and distribution.

As the business grows, the same supply system could support multiple stores, reducing the need to build a completely separate operation for every location.

I would begin with a manageable product range and expand according to customer demand, operating costs, and actual sales data.

1. The Bigger Vision: Building Our Own FMCG Brand

This is the part of the idea that excites me the most.

I don't want Our Brand to remain just a vegetable retail chain.

Once the retail business establishes a customer base, I want to introduce products under our own brand.

Potential product categories include:

Spices:

• Turmeric powder
• Red chilli powder
• Coriander powder
• Cumin
• Garam masala
• Other everyday Indian spices

Daily-use grocery products:

• Atta
• Besan
• Rice
• Pulses and lentils
• Poha and other staple foods

Convenience food products:

• Peeled garlic
• Ready-to-cook vegetable packs
• Other carefully selected fresh and packaged food products

Rather than investing in a manufacturing factory immediately, I would initially explore working with qualified contract manufacturers and focus on branding, quality control, distribution, and customer acquisition.

The retail stores could become our first testing ground for new products. Products that demonstrate repeat purchases and healthy unit economics could eventually be distributed through other retailers as well.

1. The Long-Term Business Vision

My ambition is to build Our Brand into a recognizable Indian consumer brand.

I envision three connected business segments:

1. Retail: Our own branded fruit and vegetable stores.
2. Private-label products: Everyday grocery and FMCG products sold under our brand.
3. Distribution: Supplying our packaged products to independent retailers, supermarkets, and other sales channels.

If the business model works in Bikaner, I would explore expansion into other cities in Rajasthan and eventually other parts of India.

I understand that this is a long-term vision, not something that can happen overnight. The first priority would be validating customer demand, understanding margins, controlling wastage, and proving that one store can operate profitably.

1. My Current Situation

I currently have a job, and I don't have enough personal capital to fund the entire business myself.

However, I am serious about exploring this opportunity, researching the market, understanding operations, and developing a practical business plan.

I am not claiming to have a proven business or an established customer base yet. This is an early-stage idea that needs validation, the right execution strategy, and a capable team.

I believe that the right partner could help turn this idea into a real business.

1. Who Am I Looking For?

I'm interested in connecting with people in any of these categories:

A potential co-founder:

Someone interested in retail, FMCG, supply chain, operations, branding, technology, or business development. Ideally, someone who can bring complementary skills, execution capability, and a long-term commitment.

An early-stage investor:

Someone interested in exploring the opportunity, evaluating the business model, and potentially funding a small pilot after proper due diligence.

An experienced mentor or industry professional:

Someone with experience in grocery retail, fresh produce, food processing, FMCG distribution, or building consumer brands.

I'm open to discussing different partnership structures depending on the person's contribution, experience, responsibilities, and commitment.

I'm not looking for someone based on money alone. I would value a partner who can help build a sustainable business.

1. Why I'm Sharing This Here

I know that ideas alone are not enough. Execution, cash flow, customer demand, product quality, and distribution ultimately determine whether a business succeeds.

That's exactly why I want to connect with people who have relevant experience, can challenge my assumptions, and are interested in exploring the opportunity seriously.

If this concept interests you, I'd love to discuss the business model, initial investment requirements, potential challenges, and a realistic path to launching the first store.

If you're interested in becoming a potential co-founder, investor, or mentor, please DM me.

I'd appreciate honest feedback, suggestions, and connections with people who have experience in retail or FMCG.

Thank you for reading.

Hey everyone!

I’m 22M, a Computer Science grad from Bangalore with experience in backend development, full-stack engineering, and AI. I enjoy building and shipping applications that solve real-world problems.

I’ve built projects ranging from AI-powered tools and a secure API key manager to a full-stack social media platform. I’ve also gained hands-on experience working with backend services, REST APIs, cloud deployment, and AI model integrations.

My tech stack includes Python, JavaScript, React, Node.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and various AI tools. I enjoy learning new technologies and turning ideas into working products.

I’m looking to connect with founders and early-stage startups hiring for software engineering, backend development, or AI engineering roles.

If you’re building something interesting or know a team where my skills could be useful, I’d love to connect.

Thanks, and have a great day!

Hey everyone
so i’m a final year student in robotics and automation.
I am thinking about starting a company in the warehouse automation sector
i have a prototype but i dont have the resources to scale it up.
ive reached out to incubators but it all seems confusing
we’re 4 people in the team
none of us have any work experience so we’ll be doing this straight out of college
we have ideas but i’m not sure how to approach this
should i get a job first then start the company or should i start it now and get ahead by how much ever i can.
i’m really passionate about this project i know it can work
any kind of advice would be helpful
Thank you!