r/Bangalorestartups

We’re building a real founders ecosystem where early-stage startup founders can actually collaborate, test products, get feedback, find co-founders, roast ideas, and help each other grow

Already growing with 150+ active founders across the globe

If you’re building a startup, SaaS, AI tool, or any ambitious idea, DM to join the community

I manage social media pages end to end including content ideas, post design, reels, captions, engagement, and overall page consistency.

Focused on creating clean, engaging content that helps brands build a strong online presence instead of random posting.

Open to freelance and long term work. DM if interested.

Please upvote for reach 🙏

We're hiring at Hold My Throttle! 🏍️

We're looking for:

1. 🎨 Graphic Design / UI & UX Intern
2. 💻 Tech Intern (who can automate tasks + use AI tools to 10x their work)
3. 📦 Operations & Supply Chain Intern

📍 HSR Layout, Bengaluru ( Starts immediately )

💰 Stipend: Up to ₹15,000/month → Full-time conversion in 3–6 months (₹30k–60k per month)

Real work. Direct founder access. Fast growth in a hardware startup.

work@bykr.co or DM your resume/portfolio to apply.

#Hiring #Internship #Bengaluru #startups

We’re a small team handling strategy, content, design, reels, ads, and social media management for brands that want to grow consistently online.

We don’t just post content.
We help brands build a clear and consistent social media presence.

What’s included every month:
• 12 posts (including 5 reels)
• 15 stories
• Content planning and strategy
• Social media management
• Influencer coordination (if needed)
• Performance marketing support
• Monthly performance reports

Everything is planned with a proper system and backed by data.

Packages can also be customized based on your requirements.

If you’re looking for a team to manage your social media properly without agency-level pricing, send us a DM.

Serious enquiries only.

Hey everyone ;

Ever get a quote for a simple plumbing leak or drywall patch and think : is this guy serious? 1200 $ for that?

I did, multiple time.

Contractors throw numbers at you, you have zero leverage, and suddenly you're wondering if you just DIY and risk flooding the house.

So I built homerepaircalc.com, a dead simple, no sign up tool that gives you realistic cost ranges for common home repairs in seconds.

Right now it has estimators for:

- plumbing (leaks, toilets, fixtures)

- Drywall patches and repairs

- Roof leaks and shingle fixes

- Electrical (outlets, switches, fans)

- Interior painting

Each one factors in basic size/scope and spits out a practical low high range so you can walk into quotes knowing what's reasonable.

I also added guides hub on what actually affects prices, when to DIY vs call a pro, an red flags.

Why? Because homeowners get blindsided every day, and most of us aren't renovation experts. This started my own frustration project, now it's live and free.

Took a few intense weeks of building + real cost data research. Nothing fancy on the tech side, but the goal was maximum usefulness with zero bullshit.

If you're a homeowner who's been burned by repair costs, or you just like practical tools that solve real daily pain, check it out and tell me what's missing:

https://homerepaircalc.com

Feedback welcome (brutally honest is best).

What other repair should I add next? Kitchen? Bathroom? HVAC?

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Hey everyone,

I’m a software engineer with 4 years of experience building frontend web and mobile applications using React and React Native.

I’ve been unemployed for the last 6 months, and with how much the market has changed recently, especially with AI impacting software hiring, I can’t keep waiting only for developer openings anymore. Right now, I’m looking for meaningful work and I’m fully open to adapting, learning fast, and contributing wherever I can.

Apart from frontend or mobile development roles, I’m also open to opportunities in QA, operations, HR, recruitment, customer success, founder’s office, marketing, support, or any startup generalist role where ownership and execution matter.

What I bring to the table is strong problem solving, clear communication, the ability to learn quickly, and a mindset of taking responsibility instead of waiting to be told what to do. Having worked in startups, I’m comfortable handling ambiguity, moving fast, and figuring things out when resources are limited.

I’m based in Bangalore for onsite opportunities, open to remote roles as well, and available to join immediately.

If your company or startup is hiring for any role where you think I could be a fit, please let me know. Thanks a lot.

Quit my role at an HFT / hedge fund recently and currently serving a long notice period. Don’t want to spend the next few months idle — looking to work with very early-stage startups doing interesting, high-intensity work.

I am a fast learner, and very eager to explore new domains/ideas. Open to backend, infra, data, ML, systems, optimization, or anything technically challenging.

2024 grad from a top IIT (circuital branch). Keeping details vague for privacy reasons, but happy to share more in DMs.

Compensation honestly isn’t a major factor right now — mainly looking for:

• smart people
• ambitious projects
• lots of ownership and learning

If you’re building something cool (especially super early-stage), please DM.

ps: used AI for formatting the post

I'm a 23yo Software Engineer who recently built a startup and made it to the Antler residency finals. While we didn't secure funding and I took an MNC role, I've realized my true satisfaction comes from product strategy, user discovery, and owning the "why" behind what we build.

I have a strong technical foundation, but my brain is wired for product execution. If any early-to-mid stage startups are looking for a high-ownership PM, Technical PM, or Founder's Office operator who can speak fluent engineering and business, I'd love to connect and help you build.

We’ve noticed one of the biggest bottlenecks for agencies is clients opening proposals and then disappearing completely.

Quick context: I built a free Splitwise alternative for India. Started 6 months ago. Sharing the real numbers because every "how I grew my startup" post I read was either fake or missing the painful parts.

The numbers:

- 720+ users (Android + iOS combined)

- Under ₹5k total spend (UAC ads, hosting, domain, tools)

- 4.9 ★ across 32 reviews

- ₹0 revenue (free forever, no plans to monetize yet)

- One Reddit post that hit 104k views — still my single biggest traffic source

The biggest lesson, and the one I wish someone had screamed at me on day one: discovery beats polish, every single time.

I spent weeks on:

- Rewriting the Play Store listing 4 times

- A/B testing app icons

- Tweaking onboarding flow

- Building a landing page with comparison pages for every competitor

None of it moved the needle. Because nobody was finding the app in the first place.

What actually got me users, in order of impact:

1. One Reddit post (144k views)

2. Word of mouth from those early users

3. Direct "Splitwise alternative India" searches (tiny but consistent)

4. UAC ads — and these actively hurt me, more below

The UAC ads disaster:

I ran Google UAC for 6 weeks thinking cheap installs would kickstart things. They did bring cheap installs at ₹8-12 per install. But quality was garbage. People installed, opened once, never came back. Retention tanked. Play Store algorithm noticed and suppressed me organically. I spent ₹15k to actively make my organic visibility worse. Took 2 months to recover.

What I'd do differently:

- Skip ads entirely for the first 1000 users

- Write 1 honest Reddit post per month instead of 1 blog post per week

- Talk to users in week 1, not month 4 (I had 500 users before I'd talked to 30 of them — embarrassing)

- Stop building features users "asked for" — I built 4, less than 3% touched them

The Splitwise moat isn't features, it's verb-status. "Splitwise it" is a verb in Indian friend groups. You don't compete with that by adding features. You compete by being the app the *next* generation of users default to — which means showing up where they're already complaining about Splitwise.

Happy to answer anything — costs, what tools I used, why I'm still doing this for free, etc.

Ideally founder’s office / growth / strategy roles. Over the last 6 years I’ve worked on scaling internet-native businesses, helped scale a Hollywood voice actor's YouTube business from 200K > 4M+ subscribers (100M+ monthly views, 2B+ lifetime), helped grow another creator-led business from $6K > $60K mrr, built systems that significantly reduced founder operational involvement, worked on a crypto marketplace launch that generated 4M+ organic CT impressions, and more recently built and validated a legal-tech platform that onboarded 20+ law firms through direct outreach. I tend to work best in fast-moving environments with ambiguity, experimentation, and ownership.

Especially interested in startups building in AI, crypto, consumer internet, media

Happy to share CV/work if relevant.

Spent the weekend on a thing because the Bangalore rental experience is genuinely broken. NoBroker quietly shows brokered listings even when you toggle "no broker." MagicBricks is mostly a call-center funnel. The only place I kept finding honest direct-owner listings was r/bangalorerentals and a couple of related subs. Problem is, those posts get buried fast and you basically have to scroll daily to catch them.

So I scraped every "flat for rent in Bangalore" post I could find, ran them through an extractor, and built a small chat agent on top that lets you search them. You can say "2BHK in Koramangala under 30k, no broker" or "I work at Manyata, anything nearby under 25k" and it works. Each result links back to the OP's Reddit post so you just DM them directly, no broker in the loop.

Numbers were rough though. Out of 1,412 posts I pulled, only 131 turned out to be actual rental offers. The rest were complaints, scam stories, "wanted" posts, random market talk. So about 2.8% of what looks like a rental post on this sub actually is one.

Putting the demo link in a comment so this doesn't read as drive-by promo.

Genuine question though, most of those 39 are older archived posts so the flats are probably already gone. If I set up a daily scrape of new posts on here, would something like this be useful to you, or does the gap between "post appears" and "flat already taken" make it pointless?

What’s the “Letterboxd for books”?

I’m looking for a platform that has:

- a strong community of readers

- ratings/reviews like Letterboxd

- good social features (following people, lists, yearly stats, etc.)

- active users and modern UI

I know about Goodreads, but are there better or more “Letterboxd-like” alternatives for books?

Which one do you personally use and why?

Hey everyone,

I am looking to join the right startup or product team as a cofounder.

I am not from a pure tech background, but I work at the intersection of marketing, design, content, product and AI.

I have around 6 years of overall experience in digital marketing, graphic design, web design, video editing and AI-based creative/product work.

I can help with things like:

Brand positioning
Landing pages
Ad creatives
Social media content
Website design
Product storytelling
Video editing
AI images, videos, music, ads and code workflows
SaaS, marketplace, Chrome extension and web app ideas

I feel many good products in India struggle not because the product is bad, but because the messaging, design, launch and marketing are weak.

That is the gap I want to help solve.

I am looking for a serious technical founder, solo founder or small team where I can contribute properly, not just take a cofounder title.

If you are building something useful and need someone who can help with design, marketing, launch, content and AI execution, DM me or comment what you are building.

Open to discuss and see if there is a good fit.