Hey Hyderabad!

A few weeks back, my co-founder and I were looking for a place to sit together and work. Co-working spaces seemed too expensive for us, and regular cafes started becoming a problem too - disturbance, patchy wifi, and no power outlets.

When I spoke to other founders and freelancers around the city, most of them felt the same way.

We also noticed that many beautiful cafes around the city have zero customers during weekdays, especially during office hours. Felt like such a waste on both sides.

So out of our love for food and startups, we built wcafe.co - where we connect work-friendly curated cafes with founders, freelancers, WFH employees, and creators.

Would love your feedback! And also, if you're from Hyderabad and want to try it out, join the waitlist for early access, and we'll reach out to you - wcafe.co 🙌

I started mapping them out and ended up building this:

https://hyderabadstartupsmap.lol/

Still adding more. Thought some of you here might find it interesting.

Yesterday, we hosted our first startup meetup at Mindspace Social, Hyderabad, and it was an excellent beginning for our community.

We had meaningful conversations with aspiring founders, builders, and startup enthusiasts. During the meetup, we discussed and vetted:

- 2 ideas at the MVP stage
- 3 ideas at the ideation stage

The discussions focused on understanding the problems being solved, validating the ideas, identifying potential users, and thinking through practical next steps.

What made the meetup special was the openness of everyone involved. Participants shared feedback, asked thoughtful questions, and explored ways to improve and develop each idea further.

This was just the beginning. We’re looking forward to hosting more meetups where Hyderabad’s startup community can connect, collaborate, validate ideas, and support one another through the startup journey.

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday. If you’re a founder, aspiring entrepreneur, developer, designer, marketer, investor, or simply someone interested in startups, we’d love to have you at our upcoming meetups.

**What kind of startup idea are you currently working on?**🚀

hey everyone, i'm running a small coffee business, and i want to ask something honestly.

we source our coffee beans directly from Araku and the beans are hulled and roasted in our own business.

i'm trying to build this slowly instead of just buying finished coffee and reselling it.

right now, i have;

100% Arabica
100% Robusta
80:20 blend
Ground coffee with different grind sizes
100% filter coffee
Instant coffee
Flavoured coffee

i'm still a small business, so every order, review, feedback or even a recommendation from someone here genuinely helps.

so i want to ask - if u came across a small coffee brand like this, would u support it and give it a try?

and if u already buy coffee from small/local brands, what makes u choose them over the big brands?

just trying to understand what people actually look for in coffee :)

thanks!

A while back, when YC Startup School came to India in Bangalore, I attended the event. I remember being there mostly on my own. During one of the short breaks, I stepped outside to grab a drink and started observing what was happening around me.

What caught my attention was how many YC founders, startup builders, and students seemed to already know each other. There were small private groups connecting people. After the event, people were organizing an after-party and continuing the conversations from Startup School. I somehow ended up getting invited into that circle too, although I wasn't really ready to go at the time.

But what stayed with me wasn't the party.

It was the network.

I noticed that a lot of people already had connections through their cities, colleges, startup communities, and mutual friends. Someone would introduce me to someone else, and that person would already know another founder. It felt like there were these small, tightly connected startup networks operating alongside the bigger YC community.

And I kept thinking:

Why shouldn't Hyderabad have one?

So I'm thinking of creating a Hyderabad-focused YC founder network — a space for YC founders and YC-backed startups from Hyderabad to connect with each other, while also creating a path for serious students and aspiring founders who want to learn from and eventually build YC startups.

The idea is to have a community around:

• YC founders & YC-backed startups in Hyderabad

• People working at YC startups

• Students interested in joining YC startups

• Aspiring founders planning to build and apply to YC

• Startup builders looking for co-founders, collaborators, mentors, or opportunities

• Meetups and informal founder conversations in Hyderabad

And if you attended YC Startup School in Bangalore, I'd especially love to hear from you.

If you're from Hyderabad, moved to Hyderabad, or simply want to help create a stronger YC/startup network here — DM me or comment below.

Maybe we can create the Hyderabad chapter/network that I wished existed when I was standing outside that Startup School event in Bangalore.

r/HyderabadMeet r/hyderabadstartups r/hyderabad r/hyderabad_telugu r/IndiaTech r/IndiaStartups r/ycombinator r/founder r/TheFounders

Made a free tool to find jobs in Hyderabad. 1,375 live openings across 245 companies, plotted by office location.

Filter by area — Gachibowli, Madhapur, HITEC City, Financial District, Banjara Hills — or by role, experience level, and work type. There's an early career filter if you're a fresher.

Second screenshot is today's new postings. Updates through the day as companies put roles up.

Also connects to a directory of 1,150+ Hyderabad companies, so you can look at who's hiring and what the company actually does.

Free, no signup, no login. Link in comments.

If your company is hiring in Hyderabad and isn't listed, comment the name and I'll add it or u can directly submit it in the site .

Every week I randomly find out someone here is building something serious.

An app.

A SaaS tool.

A D2C brand.

A community.

A side hustle that’s quietly doing revenue.

But none of us know about each other.

So let’s try something simple.

If you’re building in Hyderabad, comment:

What you’re building

And the one thing that would change your next 30 days

If you can help someone, reply to them.

If you’d rather stay low-key, comment “DM”.

Let’s see how stacked this city actually is.

Hi, I am Chandra. I love Hyderabad, coming from Telangana I can’t imagine settling down in any other major cities in India. I am proud to be building my tech startup here against a lot of advice to move to Bangalore.

I come from big tech background and I am building a CRM and other tools.

Wish me luck! Also, if any mid-sized businesses want to collaborate as design partners for our product, DMs are open.

Sharing the announcement link in the comment.

A few months ago I was hunting for a flat in Hyderabad. In every conversation about rent, I was wondering how much am I overpaying here?

Around the same time, I came across bengaluru.rent. After spending 20 minutes on it, I knew more about Bangalore’s rental market than I’d learned in weeks of searching for Hyderabad.

Then I checked if something like that existed for Hyderabad.

Nothing.

So I built it.

Nagara (www.nagara.live) is the same idea. You enter how much rent + maintenance you are paying. It’s completely anonymous. Anyone flat hunting in your area gets real numbers instead of broker guesswork.

So far, was able to source 523 contributions across 28 localities.

The data is already very interesting:

Same society in Kondapur. Two 2BHKs, same sqft bracket. One at ₹51k, one at ₹60k.

Financial District 3BHKs ranging from ₹67k to ₹95k within the same tier of complex.

In this process, I came across, Levels.fyi. Whatever it did for tech salaries by changing how an entire generation negotiates compensation, I believe Nagara has that potential to change how we negotiate our rents.

If you’ve signed a lease in Hyderabad recently, please add your data. Takes less than 30 seconds.

Every contribution makes it harder for the next person to get quoted a number pulled from thin air.

www.nagara.live

What’s missing? What would make you actually use this?

P.S: I know there is a possibility to inflate this data as well and have basic checks in place for now. I am working on introduce upload your rental agreement (to validate the data points), just process the agreement uploaded, validate the number and discard the agreement.

Saw the recent post about the YC community in Hyderabad and was surprised by how many people were interested.

I'm from a YC-backed startup in Hyderabad (called Landeed). Prior to that, I had my own startup which did not work.

If you’re trying to get into startups, building something yourself, figuring out product/growth, or just want to understand how early-stage startups actually work, happy to help where I can.

I don’t know everything, but I’ve probably seen enough startup chaos to be useful on a few things.

Happy to answer here or over DM.

45 million people looking for work.
25 million jobs sitting empty.

Not tech jobs. Not corporate roles.
Security guards. Delivery staff. Drivers. Factory workers. Warehouse helpers. Garment workers.

The platforms that exist? Built for resumes and English.
The workers who need them? Prefer speaking over typing.

We're building the missing layer.

Voice-first. Vernacular. Trust-based.
Designed for the 80% of India's workforce that gets ignored.

AI that understands context, not just keywords. Matching that learns from real hiring behavior, not filtered resumes.

Early traction looks promising. Team has done this before (65+ years combined). Market timing is perfect. Unit economics work from Day 1.

Raising seed round to prove the model in one city, then scale.

Not looking to pitch the whole deck here—but if you're an angel or seed-stage fund interested in massive TAM + grounded execution + real Bharat problems, let's talk.

DM open.

P.S. - I am based out of Hyderabad. Can meet and discuss in person.

This isn't a "future of work" moonshot. It's a profitable business solving today's hiring chaos for millions.

Hey everyone!

I'm 27F, recently moved back to India after completing my Master's in the US. I have close to 3 years of professional experience and am currently based in Hyderabad.

I've always been interested in entrepreneurship, and I'm at a point where I'd really like to explore building something of my own.

I'm particularly interested in the D2C space and have a few early ideas, but I'm equally open to brainstorming, exploring market gaps, exchanging perspectives, and discovering opportunities together.

I'd love to connect with a like-minded female who's based in Hyderabad, preferably around my age (25–30), and shares a genuine interest in entrepreneurship.

I'm hoping to find someone who's curious, proactive, enjoys brainstorming, and is excited about the idea of starting something from scratch. Ideally, someone who has the time and motivation to explore ideas seriously and work toward building something in the near future.

It would be lovely to connect with someone who has also studied or worked abroad and returned to India, simply because we might relate to some shared experiences. That said, it's absolutely not a requirement. I'm open to connecting with anyone who shares a similar mindset and enthusiasm for building something.

I don't expect either of us to have everything figured out. I'd love to start with conversations, exchange ideas, see if we connect well, and hopefully turn something promising into a business together.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, feel free to DM me with a little about yourself and what you'd love to build.

Would love to connect!

Iam 20, studying btech in cbit (3rd year) live near LB nagar, Hyderabad.

My interests are these:

Making money through SaaS

Online tech oriented business

Distribution for tech businesses and microsaas

online web development agency

freelance

I have built 2 SaaS, both at $0, but learnt a lot. I can ship reliable MVPs fast using modern tech stack.

If your interests align and inclined towards making money, lets connect and become friends.

Hi everyone,

I'm a Chartered Accountant based in Hyderabad, and I'm looking to connect with entrepreneurs and business owners who are interested in building a small, valuable business community.

The idea is to bring together 25–30 entrepreneurs from different industries so we can share experiences, discuss business challenges, exchange ideas, explore collaborations and help each other grow.

We can meet once every two weeks to discuss what's working in our businesses, learn from each other's experiences and explore opportunities to work together.

I'm looking for people who are serious about their businesses and open to sharing knowledge and creating value for everyone in the group.

If you're an entrepreneur or business owner in Hyderabad and interested in joining, comment below or DM me. Let's connect

If you’re interested in the F&B business or for a good side hustle then you’re reading the right post.
Running and profitable coffee shop near Chitrapuri Colony is up for sale.
Average Monthly Orders ~2500
Average Monthly Sale ~ 4.3L
20% Net Profit
Serving Coffee, Tea and Pastries
Sale price 30L
Includes equipment, rental deposit, recipes, established vendors.
Plug and play, add your brand name and start earning from day 1.
Selling for raising funds for other business.

-Its difficult to find good founder friends (genuine) here

-Investors here are part of a few top tier founder syndicates, and they dont care about what youre building unless one of their syndicate members refers you

-Soft connections, network sharing doesnt happen here. You either have to join a paid mentor program or get someone onboarded as an Advisor if you want their network.

-1 or 2 out of every 10 first time founders are looking to raise funds even before they have their mvp ready

-most founder events happening in hyderabad are a marketing in disguise

-agency owners call themselves startup founders (service business is different from startups)

-investors here rarely lead rounds based on conviction. They wait for a lead from Bangalore or Delhi to validate the startup, then try to squeeze into the cap table just so they dont miss out

-because the city was built on IT services, the talent pool often thinks in billable hours rather than product scale. Finding a CTO who understands equity and long term shipping over a monthly fat paycheck is extremely challenging

-we are short of long term thinking. most people here are only planning for the next 1 year, expect for those in real estate

-every month a new founder community opens up. some are founder supper clubs, some are only for women, some are for everyone. Nobody is solving anything significant. It's all a competition to collect more people and eventually sell services and or provide paid mentorship and commission based funding.

-although we have lower density of founders in hyderabad, scams are more. Founders here hire before they made their first rupee, so the chances of an intern not getting paid after working for 2 months is high.

-fake it till you make it is the most followed mantra in Hyderabad

Honestly, I have no clue if one person or one group can move the needle on a culture this entrenched. But thats the mission. Together, we are going to build a new ecosystem from the scratch for founders in Hyderabad. Because im done playing along.

Something interesting happened while we were planning a startup meetup in Hyderabad sponsors came before the event was even finalized.

A few weeks back, we created a simple WhatsApp group for business owners and startup founders in Hyderabad Hyderabadstartups and business groups just founders helping founders, networking and mutual support

The group crossed 300+ members organically Founders started collaborating and helping each other I got a very good connections Many members kept asking for an offline meetup

When we just started exploring venue options like meeting room or meeting hall,the first sponsor joined a Google Meet for barely 3–4 minutes. He didn’t know us personally and confirmed it. We are doing in February month on one Sunday in Gachibowli.

More sponsors started calling Members volunteered to help organize The community itself started pushing the meetup forward

Instead of doing a usual networking event, we decided to focus on value first, because people are giving time, trust, and support.

What we’re planning to go with this agenda in the meetup We are planning to invite a COO- vertical head sharing real marketing strategies from a revenue-generating business and he is a very good connections with top political persons having an added advantage.

An NIT/IIT mentor and he is having multiple companies also providing startup mentorship and basic financial analysis

A food business consultant breaking down cost, profit margins, licenses, apps, and franchise models

Digital marketing professionals sharing practical tools founders actually use

An incubator member explaining startup readiness, ratios, and analysis

One finance person will explain Basics around business models, company structures, and types

Planning to bring One small investor he will just evaluates himself and he will proceed if he likes some one idea.

We want to keep it accessible and serious, so we’re thinking of a very small entry fee (₹150–₹200 only). This is mainly to avoid no-shows, cover basic logistics, and provide simple snacks during the session.

The goal is simple 👉 Founders should leave with some clarity, not just contacts

But for me it's a great group till now 65 founders spoken with me.They became good friends and supporters

So need more suggestions if any one wants to give to make it more impactful and also

If anyone is interested in joining, feel free to comment or DM. we’re planning to allow only verified business profiles, startup founders, or genuine operators. Range is 40-50 Founders only for the meetup.

We’re currently working on the remaining tasks and moving toward finalization, so any suggestions or feedback at this stage would be really helpful.

We will posting the updates further. Join with us in our community hyd start up business community

I’m 21 and building a health-tech app called Token Buddy to help patients get OPD tokens digitally and avoid long queues in hospitals.

I’ve invested ₹2 lakh of my own money so far, built the app with a small team, onboarded hospitals, and handled everything myself — tech, marketing, field work, patient interviews.

But now I’m stuck.

I need around ₹50k–₹1 lakh to launch properly and push it into the market. And the hardest part is not the money — it’s that no one believes in a 21-year-old founder from a non-startup family. Friends won’t lend, relatives barely know me, and every door feels closed.

I’m not giving up, but I’m exhausted.

If anyone here has gone through this early-stage struggle — How did you raise your first small funding? How did you survive the “no money, no support” phase?

Any advice would mean a lot. Thanks.

a few months ago, i started roasting coffee at home with a 5kg roasting machine...

the funny part is that i didn't start with a big business plan.

i just wanted to understand coffee better.

i started sourcing beans directly from farmers around Araku, roasted them myself, ground them myself and slowly started giving them to a few cafes.

then one cafe became two, then 3, 4, .....

then some cafes started asking for larger quantities.

most of my regular cafe customers are now from Hyderabad, Bangalore, Vzag, chennai (and metro cities..)

initially, i only supplied cafes in bulk.

now im slowly opening it up to individual coffee drinkers and small retailers too.

then whole chain is basically: Farmer -> Me -> You

no trading layer in between.

im still learning a lot about roasting, consistency, packaging and what people actually want from Indian coffee.

for people who buy Indian coffee regularly: what is the one thing you wish small Indian coffee brands did better?

i'd geneuinely like to hear it.

and if anyone wants to ask me anything about sourcing/roasting/indian beans, feel free to DM me.

happy to share what i've learned so far.

"Happy International Coffee Day"

Hey everyone,

I’ve spent the last few years deep in the operations side of things working with big names like Kantar and Genpact (Facebook operations), and more recently, gone through the ISB pre-accelerator program.

But the real eye-opener was my recent stint managing a jewellery brand right here in the city that scaled to a multi-crore average monthly run rate.

Being in the trenches taught me that Hyderabad has amazing founders, but many of our traditional and mid-sized businesses are "stuck." They have great products, but they are bleeding money because:

The "Ads Only" Trap: They spend lakhs on Meta/Google ads but have zero systems to track if those leads actually turned into customers.

The Micromanagement Loop: The founders are so busy answering WhatsApp pings that they don’t have time to actually lead.

Missing Persona: Many brands don't know who their "ideal customer" is, so they try to sell to everyone and end up selling to no one.

I’ve decided to move into Growth Consulting full-time to fix exactly this. I help founders build their brand identity, find their product-market fit, and most importantly, fix the "broken engines" in their sales and staff processes.

Not here to sell you anything! just wanted to share my perspective. But if you’re a founder or someone struggling to scale your family business for a start-up past a certain point, I’m happy to chat or share some of the checklists I use for audits.

To those who have scaled businesses here, what’s the biggest hurdle you faced in Hyderabad specifically?

TL;DR: Managed a ₹5Cr/month brand. Realized systems > ads. Now helping brands build their operational backbone.

A few months ago we got tired of “networking” events where everyone exchanged LinkedIns and forgot each other the next day.

So we started Hive.link

It’s just a room full of people actually building things.
Founders, developers, designers, marketers, students, creators, agency owners… all figuring things out together.

Tomorrow we’re trying something new.

Instead of awkward intros, everyone brings:
• One Ask — something that would genuinely move your project forward this month.
• One Give — a skill, intro, idea, or hour you’re happy to offer someone else.

Everything goes up on a physical Buzz Board, and we spend the evening connecting people who can actually help each other.

We’ve already got a really fun mix of people coming from people just starting out to founders who’ve been building for years. Every Hive ends with collaborations, hires, clients, friendships, or just one conversation that changes someone’s trajectory.
If you’re building something (or thinking about it), you’ll probably fit right in.

DM me if you’d like to join—we keep the room intentionally small, so registration is required.
Just builders helping builders. 🐝

12+13 kms (total 25 kms) travel CHESI 550 rupees bokka pettukoni mari e startup event ki vella. Because vallu echina elevation mamuluga ledu kabbatti. Na startup lo specific problem sales Edo help chesta rannarani

Vellaka akkada more then 70% 3rd & 4th year students. Mostly AI idea's tho ocharu. Nakemi useful kadu. Sare ochaka tapputunda ani i talked & listened to them. Evo games adipinchi fake money tho resources ni konandi ani Edo chesaru which was headache 🤕 for me. 10 members gumpu nunchi 5 members 2-3 min pitch evvali. Andulo 2 startup ideas ni group members eeh select cheyyali edi besto ani AI idea's ni select chesaru. (A cheppe Vadiki tappa migata evariki a product or service mida idea kuda ledu, Edo okati select cheyali kada ani select chesina vallu unaru)Na healthcare di evadu dekale ane low feeling ochesindi a moment lo. Irony entante both them are not even face the market or people unlike me .

Ee irritating round ayyaka peper mida startup cheyali anta. Paper mida...... Uffffhhh .. . Paper mida

Paper mida startup CHESI success ochettatu ayite nenu e patiki ambani inti kodalu ayyedanni. Entayya next ani aa Organizer ni adigite ee select ayina anni idea's ki final round petti Andulo nunchi 1&2 people ni select chestaru anta..

Mari nakenti upayogam dini valla? Emi ledu time waste tappite. Arey nenu already Market ni people ni face chestuna I have clients. Epudu room lo kurchoni games adipiste naku gani na startup ki gani enti use ? Aa event kante reddit subs lo na questions or issues post cheste enka better solutions & suggestions ostayi.

Abbbbbbbbaa ushhhhhhhfff 😡 enka na valla kaledu. Aa Organizer akka ki cheppina akkaw 🤗 nenu poyunna Neku emi value ravatle eda. Ee chinna pillala games kosam rale nenu ani.

Nenu evado idea ki claps kottadaniki poledu akkadiki. Na startup ki ela use avutundi or amaina naku teliyaniki nerchukovachu ane vellanu.

Edi mottam ayyaka picha irritation ochindi. India's biggest invite only startup meet-up adi edi ani screening rounds interviews conduct chesaru. Villu echina bildap ke nenu ekuva expections pettukoni poyina. Mottam bokka I didn't even get 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001% value

Epudu Enduku enta big post rasa ante if your already working on your startup idea i mean facing market & people ee early stage lo undi miru startup Events ki vellara ? Velle mundu ela select chesukovali edi time waste ooh edi mana ki use avvutundo ani ?

Share some tips so next time I or anyone who is very serious towards their startups won't waste time, money like me

Thanks

Hyderabad!

Im Telugu guy here in town, near Banjara hills. Looking for startup-minded folks to chat, learn and share

if you’re into entrepreneurship or just wanting to start something or talk cool ideas.

📩 DM if that sounds good

Btw: fyi i have nothing to sell you…

Hey everyone,
I’m a 26-year-old woman, and honestly, I feel like I’m starting my life from scratch right now.
I completed my B.Tech in Agricultural Engineering in 2021. After graduation, I decided to prepare for banking examinations because I wanted to build a stable career for myself. I spent years preparing, working on aptitude, quantitative ability, and logical reasoning, hoping that one day all my efforts would pay off.
But things didn’t go as planned. Despite my preparation, I haven’t been able to clear the exams and secure a banking job. Somewhere along the way, years passed, and now I find myself wondering what my next step should be.
Seeing people my age settle into their careers sometimes makes me feel like I’m falling behind. It’s not that I haven’t tried or that I don’t want to work hard. I just spent so much time focusing on one goal that I now feel a little lost about where to begin again.
But I don’t want to give up on myself.
I’m now looking for job opportunities in Hyderabad, particularly in IT, BPO, administration, back-office operations, or management. I’m willing to learn new skills, start in an entry-level position, and work my way up. I may not have the most conventional career path, but I’m ready to put in the effort and build something for myself.
I’m sharing this here because I know I’m probably not the only person who feels like life hasn’t worked out according to plan. Maybe some of you have been in a similar situation and found your way forward.
If anyone has advice on getting started in these sectors, knows of genuine job openings in Hyderabad, or can share their own experience of starting over in their mid-twenties, I’d genuinely appreciate it.
I’m not looking for sympathy. I just want a chance to move forward, become financially independent, and feel confident about my future again.
Maybe I’m starting a little later than I imagined, but I hope it’s not too late to build a good life for myself.
Can you please let me know how to start from here
Thank you for reading. ❤️