Looking for young founders/builders in Bangalore

Hey everyone! I’m organizing a small Young Founders India (YFI) meetup this Saturday in Bangalore.

The idea is pretty simple — get a few young people who are building something, thinking about starting something, or just genuinely interested in startups into the same room. No big CEO/networking-event vibe 😭 Just conversations, ideas, and meeting people who are on a similar journey.

📍 (Cafe will be let known),Bangalore

🗓️ Saturday, 22 August

⏰ 4–6 PM

It’s our first meetup, so keeping it small and informal.

If you’re a student, young founder, aspiring founder, or someone building something on the side and you'd like to join, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll share the details.

Would be cool to meet some of you :)

Hi everyone,

I'd really appreciate advice from people who are working as Data Analysts or recently got hired. Any roadmap, study plan, or resources would be incredibly helpful.

I'm a BBA graduate(2023) trying to break into data analytics by SELF TAUGHT after a long gap.

Now it's 2026, AI is everywhere, and I'm honestly confused about what skills employers actually expect from entry-level Data Analysts.

My questions are:

1)Is it possible to become a Data Analyst through self-study when I have 3.5 yrs of a career gap?

2. What skills are essential for a Data Analyst in 2026?

3. Which tools should I prioritize more(Excel, SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau, AI tools, etc.)?

4. How much Python is actually needed?

5. What AI skills are becoming important for Data Analysts?

6. What kind of portfolio projects should I build to get interviews?

7. Are certifications like the Google Data Analytics Certificate still worth it?

Looking for someone experienced in building web scrapers. I have a specific requirement and this is a paid gig.
If you’re an expert or have solid experience with scraping, DM me with your experience/work samples and I’ll share the details.

We are looking for a Web Developer Intern for a quick 1-month stint to work directly on live web and tech projects. Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, React, AI, Meta tools, Cloud Servers is a must.

Who Can Apply: Final year students**(2027 batch only)** pursuing BE, BTech or MCA in Computer Science or IT branches.

Work Setup: Hybrid model with 1-2 days per week from our office in Hebbal, Bangalore. The rest is work from home. Remote-only seekers, please skip this one as in-person presence in office is mandatory.

Duration: 1 Month

How to Apply: Please DM me directly with your updated resume, along with links to your GitHub or live projects. I will send the JD and ATS link to apply to eligible candidates.

A fortnight ago I posted a measurement of the Indian serum shelf: 13 D2C brands, ₹159 crore a year on Amazon. That shelf belongs to Indian D2C almost entirely.

So I assumed baby skincare would look similar. Same buyer, adjacent aisle, and every D2C brand in the country seems to have a baby range now.

It does not look similar at all.

I took three searches Amazon actually merchandises, baby lotion, baby massage oil and baby cream, three pages each, and harvested 421 distinct organic products. I then opened the 80 highest-revenue ones individually to confirm each brand from Amazon's own "Visit the … Store" link and read the MRP and the price per 100ml, which search pages do not publish. Those 80 products are 92.5% of the measured revenue.

Here is what came back.

The shelf is worth ₹97.9 crore a year. Indian D2C has 9.8% of it.

Who owns it	Brands	₹cr/yr	Share
Dermatology / pharma	4	47.1	48.0%
Multinational consumer	5	24.2	24.7%
Indian large-cap & gear	5	14.1	14.4%
Indian D2C	7	9.6	9.8%
Unclassified	4	3.1	3.1%
Total	25	97.9	100%

Cetaphil, Aveeno and Sebamed take 58.5% between them. Add Atogla and Venusia, both pharmaceutical brands (Torrent and Dr. Reddy's), and dermatology alone is 48%.

Mamaearth, the largest listed D2C beauty company in India, holds 0.8% of this shelf.

The full shelf

Indian D2C brands in bold.

#	Brand	Owner	₹cr/yr	Units/mo	Med. disc	₹/100ml	Rating
1	Cetaphil	pharma	21.44	24,400	10%	332	4.44
2	Aveeno	MNC	20.04	18,300	23%	456	4.46
3	Sebamed	pharma	15.77	25,400	16%	502	4.49
4	Himalaya	Indian	9.83	25,600	26%	82	4.36
5	ATOGLA	pharma	7.21	9,000	4%	304	4.50
6	Mamansh	Indian D2C	3.32	5,900	20%	199	4.33
7	VENUSIA	pharma	2.64	4,000	12%	285	4.45
8	Parachute Advansed	Indian	2.50	7,000	26%	90	4.33
9	B4 Nappi Cream	unclassified	1.78	5,000	4%	396	4.50
10	Mother Sparsh	Indian D2C	1.74	5,900	46%	68	4.30
11	Johnson's Baby	MNC	1.66	5,000	40%	80	4.40
12	Baby Forest	Indian D2C	1.57	1,600	8%	460	4.45
13	Mustela	MNC	1.24	1,300	29%	500	4.50
14	Baby Dove	MNC	0.92	4,000	45%	48	4.40
15	Little Rituals	Indian D2C	0.92	1,200	20%	369	4.60
16	TuCo	Indian D2C	0.85	3,000	19%	250	4.15
17	Mamaearth	Indian D2C	0.78	1,900	23%	85	4.25
18	Dabur	Indian	0.72	1,800	20%	116	4.35
19	LuvLap	Indian	0.71	3,000	55%	28	4.30
20	Eight Roots	unclassified	0.54	500	10%	899	4.20
21	Figaro Baby	unclassified	0.52	2,000	42%	108	4.30
22	Root and Soil	Indian D2C	0.39	900	3%	1436	4.60
23	Mee Mee	Indian	0.31	1,000	26%	64	4.30
24	Chicco	MNC	0.30	1,000	16%	126	4.40
25	Daffy	unclassified	0.24	400	17%	250	4.50

The number that explains the shelf

Look at rows 3 and 4.

Brand	Units/mo	₹/100ml	₹cr/yr
Himalaya	25,600	82	9.83
Sebamed	25,400	502	15.77

Almost identical volume. Six times the price per unit. Sebamed earns 60% more revenue from 200 fewer units a month.

That is not a pricing accident, it is the whole category in one comparison. On a shelf where the buyer is a new parent, the brand that reads as clinical can charge six times the brand that reads as herbal, and lose nothing in volume.

I cannot measure why from listings alone, so treat this as inference rather than data: the recommendation happens in a paediatrician's room, not on Instagram. That is a channel a D2C playbook is not built for, and it is invisible in every metric we normally track.

The price spread is 51x

Brand	₹/100ml	Units/mo	₹cr/yr
LuvLap	28	3,000	0.71
Baby Dove	48	4,000	0.92
Mee Mee	64	1,000	0.31
Mother Sparsh	68	5,900	1.74
…	…	…	…
Mustela	500	1,300	1.24
Sebamed	502	25,400	15.77
Eight Roots	899	500	0.54
Root and Soil	1436	900	0.39

The cheapest brand on the shelf is not winning, and neither is the dearest. The revenue sits with brands priced ₹300 to ₹500 per 100ml that a parent has heard of from someone they trust.

Who is holding price, and who is buying volume

Median discount, not the deepest single cut, because one clearance SKU sets a maximum that describes nothing.

Holding price	Med. disc	Cutting hardest	Med. disc
Root and Soil	3%		LuvLap
ATOGLA	4%		Mother Sparsh
B4 Nappi Cream	4%		Baby Dove
Baby Forest	8%		Johnson's Baby
Cetaphil	10%		Figaro Baby

Two things stand out.

Johnson's Baby is discounting at 40% and holds 1.7% of the shelf. For decades that brand was Indian baby care. Baby Dove, at 45% off, holds 0.9%. Legacy distribution and a discount are not defending these positions.

A 46% median discount is not a promotion, it is the price. The MRP exists to make it look like a saving. That is a fine strategy until somebody does it harder than you.

What this is not

Being straight about the limits, because the headline number is the kind of thing people quote.

• GMV, not revenue. What buyers pay before Amazon's commission, fulfilment and returns. No brand receives this number.
• A floor, twice over. Amazon publishes velocity in bands, so "10K+ bought" counts as exactly 10,000, and any product with no published figure counts as zero.
• The visible shelf, not every SKU. This measures what Amazon surfaces for three searches. It is deliberately not comparable with the serum figure above, which came from crawling complete brand catalogues. Both understate, differently.
• Amazon only. Baby care sells heavily through pharmacies, general trade and quick commerce. For the dermatology brands especially, the offline share is probably large, which means their real lead is bigger than this table shows.
• Ownership is hand-classified. Whether a brand is pharma, multinational or D2C is a fact about the company, not something a product page publishes.
• One shelf, one day. 17 August 2026. Every figure is reproducible from the same public pages. If you think one is wrong I would genuinely like to know which.

What I would take from it

If you are planning a baby range because you already sell skincare: the shelf you are entering is held by brands a paediatrician recommends, at ₹300 to ₹500 per 100ml, and the incumbent you would displace is not Mamaearth at 0.8%, it is Cetaphil at 21.9%.

More generally, and this is the part I got wrong: a category next door to one you win can be held by an entirely different kind of company. Adjacency is about the product. The shelf is about who the buyer trusts. Those are not the same question, and no competitor count will tell them apart.

Happy to run the same measurement on whatever category you are circling. Comment it and I will post what comes back, including when it comes back boring.

hi founders of early stage startups,

are you looking to hire someone to do all the early stage ops + other work you are too busy to do?

look no further.

i'm here. hi???

about me :

- 3.5+ years as an application support analyst.

- stints at early stage startups in customer success and as a generalist.

- masters in physics (if it matters!)

- woman (if it matters!)

I have 3.5 years of IT experience and currently earn ₹9.36 LPA fixed, with ~10% appraisal expected around October.
I’ve got an offer in HSR Layout:
Fixed: ₹13 LPA

Variable: ₹50K

Total CTC: ₹13.5 LPA

In-hand shown: ~₹1.045L/month

I’m excited about moving, but honestly quite nervous about whether this is enough for HSR, considering rent, food, utilities, transport, gym and social expenses.
The bigger reason I want to move is my current lifestyle. My day is basically 7:30 AM–8 PM between travel and work, leaving almost no time for gym, hobbies or social life. Most old friends are abroad, and being introverted, I’ve struggled to make new ones.
Bengaluru feels like a chance for a fresh start — more communities, activities and opportunities to meet people, and hopefully actually have a life outside work. But I’m worried I may be romanticizing it and underestimating the cost of living.
I’m also not finding many other suitable jobs currently.
Bangalore folks, please be brutally honest:
Is ₹13.5 LPA enough for a single person in/around HSR?

What’s a realistic monthly budget?

Is this move worth it for the lifestyle change?

Would you take this offer or wait for something better?

Especially interested in people who moved to Bengaluru from smaller cities. 🙏

Hey everyone,

I’m building a new social network. We’ve already built an MVP. (Previous version of this was a discovery app and was soft launched by the former IT minister of Karnataka)

I already have a technical co-founder and we’re looking to bring on another strong technical co-founder to increase our execution speed and add deeper expertise, particularly around backend architecture, real-time systems, and scaling.

Current stack: React Native, Next.js, Node.js, MongoDB, and Azure/AWS. Experience with these technologies is a big plus.

What I bring to the table

My strengths are on the product, user, growth and business side.

I have hands on experience understanding user behaviour, ideation, product concepts, marketing, brand building, advertising, and influencer marketing. Before this venture, I successfully ran a social media management company for 5years, which gave me practical experience working with users, businesses, content, growth, and building brands rather than just learning these things theoretically.

I’m particularly interested in understanding why people use products, what makes them come back, what creates network effects and how to turn an idea into something people genuinely want.

I’m looking for someone whose strengths complement that, someone who can take ownership of the technical side, think deeply about architecture and scalability, and help us build extremely fast.

Who I’m looking for:

More than anything, mindset matters.

I’m looking for someone with serious hunger and ambition to build something big. Someone who takes ownership, thinks like a founder rather than just an engineer, and has a strong problem solving mentality.

I also strongly believe in speed and execution. I’m not looking for someone who wants to treat this as a side project. I want a co-founder who is genuinely ready to go all-in and make this their full-time focus.

This is an early-stage venture, so there will be uncertainty, difficult problems, long days, and plenty of things we’ll have to figure out along the way. I’m looking for someone who actually enjoys that environment and sees it as an opportunity rather than a drawback.

If you’re technically strong, entrepreneurial, highly driven, believe in moving fast and are excited about building something from the ground up, I’d love to connect.

(Strongly prefer people from Bangalore)

If this sounds like you, DM me with a little about yourself, what you’ve built, your technical background, and why this interests you.

I’m a 2026 grad, Computer Science & Economics student at BITS Pilani, and I’m honestly a bit stuck right now and could use some advice from people who’ve been through this.

My background is:
Oracle: worked on 15+ SQL pipelines, query-plan/index/join optimisation, Oracle 23ai Vector Search, and an OJET dashboard.
Research thesis in Germany: completed a funded research thesis at Ruhr University Bochum on adversarially robust quantized neural networks, working with PyTorch, CIFAR-10, FGSM/PGD attacks and 2-bit/3-bit quantization.
Morgan Stanley: Worked with the Asia Economics & Rates desk, building an analytics platform and XGBoost based yield-curve forecasting system.

I’ve also built a few projects outside work a limit-order-book/trading simulator with FIFO matching, latency, cancellations, inventory/P&L and ablation analysis, and a RAG personal-finance assistant using embeddings, FAISS and LLM APIs.

The frustrating part is the timing. My Oracle PPO was revoked because of organizational/headcount changes. I then interned at Morgan Stanley, but they told me they can’t give an offer too because of headcount.

I subsequently got another offer in 19 days of my offer revoke at a MNC, but they’re now delaying things as well.

So I’m basically back in the market at the worst possible time, despite having what I think is a reasonably solid profile.

I’m happy to share my resume, GitHub and credentials over DM if anyone wants to take a look. I’d especially appreciate feedback/referrals/leads from people hiring engineers or founders who can tell me where my profile actually fits.

Thanks - genuinely appreciate any advice.

I am building a small recruitment startup and looking for 1-2interns who are keen to learn recruitment, sourcing and how the hiring business actually works.

It’ll be performance/success-based, but we’ll start with a fixed initial payment as well. It will be 4 days WFO.

Good learning, hands-on work and a chance to grow with the startup. If interested, DM me with a little about yourself.

Preferable- someone living around hsr/ koramangla/ Bellandur. As we plan to take a co working space.

Honestly, I’m looking for a few clients right now and I really need to make ₹10,000 this month.
I have 1+ year of experience managing social media, creating posts, reels, captions, content strategies, and handling pages end-to-end. I can also help with reel scripting and content planning.
If you’re a small business, startup, creator, or local brand that needs someone to manage your socials without agency-level pricing, please DM me. Even a small project would genuinely help.
Portfolio/work available on request.

We run a small manufacturing setup in Indiranagar with a mixed fleet of Bambu and Creality machines. Got tired of waiting weeks for spares to arrive, so we started stocking them, and figured others in the city have the same problem.

What we're holding right now:

- Hardened steel nozzles — A1 series, P1/X1 series, H2S/H2D series

- High-flow hotend nozzles (H2D/H2S)

- Hotend heating assemblies

- Cables and smaller bits

More details at www.hanzof.store

Filament: we can source most common materials next day at the moment. Building up proper warehouse stock over the coming weeks so it becomes same-day.

Printing: if you don't own a machine, or yours is tied up, we've got capacity. PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, PA-CF, PET-CF. Send a file, usually same or next day depending on size. We also source CNC and sheet metal if the part shouldn't be printed — happy to tell you honestly which it is.

We're putting together hanzof.store to make all of this less of a WhatsApp exchange. If there's a spare or a filament you're constantly struggling to get hold of in India, tell me in the comments — that's exactly what I'm trying to work out before we commit to stock.

https://preview.redd.it/qsa5a3qhj3kh1.jpg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3cae768323fa0aca0347e7eff342206aabbb0af

Not trying to spam the sub. Mostly wanted to say the spares exist locally now, because I'd have wanted to know.

Hello guys, I'm from flo101, a startup here in Bangalore.

We're running something called Project Underdog and this felt like the right place to share it! Basically: ten people in Bangalore, each picks one goal they're actually chasing, and goes after it for seven days. Dropouts, self taught builders, anyone on an unconventional path are welcome.
You build in public, you film your week start to finish, the wins and the walls.

For the seven days you get:
-full access to flo101
-work out of our Bangalore office
-cash prizes for the top three

Aug 23 onwards. Bangalore. $1,000 in prizes.
Lock in with us!! applications open @ underdog.flo101.com

If you have any questions, feel free to dm me and if someone came to mind while you were reading this, send me their name and I'll get in touch with them!

Hi everyone,

"Even Blinkit delivers the hardest items in just ten minutes, then why does your love life take forever?"

Yes, I know you're thinking, "Yet another dating app just fit in with some AI, boring, pass."

But here's what I'll tell you: Did Koenigsegg invent cars? No, right? It just proved to everyone that its way of approaching building high-performance cars was unique. It wasn't competing with anyone; it was only getting better than itself in technology.

That's exactly what Dateify is about — the whole point of this app is to expedite a physical date with someone by the nearest weekend - yea because everything's happening in the backend while you're doing your 9 to 5 job.

My algorithm, powered by neural networks and AI agents connected to each user, significantly reduces the time spent in the talking stage. It promises that boring talking stages can be transformed with AI agents chatting and providing brief summaries, so users can get to know the person in front of them and meet in person to enjoy a nice time and decide what’s next — instead of being glued to their screens and stuck in confusion over the so-called talking stage with 20 other people. You will only date a person if you actually sit in front of them and give them the time of day rather than judging them on a screen.

The backend is rock solid, and I'm happy to explain everything in confidence. I believe it will work because I've spent hours perfecting the neural network's functioning.

As the title says I'm looking for a co-founder to share equity as well, I'm looking for someone who is hungry to challenge the biggest established names with the right mechanics and creativity. I have all the ideas open.

Let me know