I'm 19M from Mumbai and I've been thinking that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, why not create one? I'm looking for 5–7 like-minded people from Mumbai MMR who are around 18–24 and genuinely interested in tech. It doesn't matter if you're learning Python, Web Development, AI, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, UI/UX, App Development, or anything else related to tech. The idea is simply to make a small group where we can connect, share knowledge, discuss ideas, and see if we can build something meaningful together in the future. There's no fixed plan or startup idea yet, and that's completely fine. Sometimes you just need the right people first. If this sounds interesting and you're serious about tech, send me a DM with a short introduction about yourself. Let's see where this journey takes us.

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19.6-year-old trying to start a manufacturing startup in India — looking for advice

Hi everyone,

I’m 19.6 years old and currently working at my father’s plywood and hardware shop.

I’m trying to build a startup in the plywood/wood-panel manufacturing industry but price at local but brand value

I’m currently at the early R&D stage, and I have very little personal capital to invest in.

A little about me:

\- 19.6 years old

\- Introvert

\- Not very good at networking or talking to new people

\- Interested in manufacturing, business and startups

\- Working at my father’s plywood & hardware shop

\- I have some practical exposure to the plywood market, but I’m still learning about manufacturing and entrepreneurship

\- Limited financial resources, but willing to put in the time and effort

I’m looking for advice from people who have experience with Startup India, manufacturing startups, plywood/wood-panel businesses, fundraising, or starting a business with limited capital.

Yes i write with a AI because i was not sure what to type

But if you reading this first **DON'T COPY MY IDEA**

**I will sue or either r\*\*pe you**

Second try to find mistakes

Be negative to me

If wanna join

Be my company co founder

I’m looking for a co-founder who is:

Extroverted and good at communication

Strong at networking

Good at sales/business development

Interested in building a startup from scratch

Plywood manufacturing experience is NOT mandatory.

I’m looking for someone who can complement my skills and build this together. If interested, comment it

Pitch deck Link:- pitch deck

It feels like every developer right now just wants to build another AI wrapper or B2B SaaS tool. But if we want to build things that truly scale for the next billion people, we need to Make in India not "Fake in India". the USA dominates cutting-edge software design and China operates as the lightning-fast hardware factory of the world, it hits hard realizing how far behind India's system still is. I want to build things that can truly compete globally, but I don't know enough about our low-level infrastructure and constraints to make a real dent.

So I am stepping up to a challenge: I am 22, and I have set a strict savings budget of ₹30,000 for a 30-day journey. No flights, no premium hotels, only sleeper-class trains, budget lodges, and street food. I want to completely experience this from the ground up to see the raw, unfiltered truth of Indian supply chains, manufacturing and find the true "Make in India" business.

What I’m Looking For: I want to skip the corporate business parks. I am looking for the rawest, lowest-level hubs where metal is cut, circuits are soldered, and hardware meets software.

Which dusty industrial estates should I absolutely not miss?

What I need from this community:

1. Industries: Which raw, low-level industrial hubs and MSME clusters should I absolutely not miss? can you take me there?

2. The Electronics Source: Where do local hardware shops go to buy raw electronic components and custom PCBs in bulk? I want to find the manufacturers who supplies to them.

3. The Deep Tech Builders: Who is doing the hardest, rarest work in the country from absolute zero? If you know someone training local LLMs, designing local processors, setting up unique data centers, or fabricating proprietary sensors, please drop their names/startups.

I want to meet everyone with a stake in this ecosystem: passionate students, IoT enthusiasts, professors, factory operators, MSME owners, and deep-tech researchers.

If you’re a college student or professional who is as curious as I am, let’s collaborate. When I reach your hometown, could you show me around the local markets and industrial areas from morning to evening? In exchange, we can grab street food, swap insights, and dive deep into these topics together.

Please drop your suggestions for locations, hidden hubs, founder intros, or even safety warnings below. My DMs are completely open!

>I am honestly tired of the fancy showrooms that just import completely knocked-down kits from abroad, screw them together, and call it domestic innovation. I want to see the real, Make in India.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some help and guidance.

I completed my B.E. in Engineering from a Government College in 2020. After graduation, I dedicated myself to preparing for the UPSC examination. Although I cleared some stages along the way, I couldn't secure a final selection.

Realizing I needed to switch my career, I decided to enter the IT industry. To improve my skills, I completed a 6-month CDAC PG-DAC diploma and learned Java, Spring Boot, SQL, React, and related technologies. I've built projects and have been actively applying for software developer roles.

Its been more than year since i completed my course but i havent got any opportunity neither as full time nor as intern in any company. As Im already 26 now and father is now retired, its creating lot of financial and emotional pressure on me and my family.

The biggest challenge I'm facing is my career gap. Most interviewers lose interest after seeing the gap on my resume, and despite searching continuously for the last six months, I still haven't been able to get a job.

My financial situation has become very difficult, and honestly, it's getting harder to stay positive. I'm willing to relocate anywhere in India, work hard, and start from an entry-level position. I just need one opportunity to prove myself.

If anyone knows of companies hiring freshers or interns or candidates with career gaps, or can provide a referral, guidance, or advice, I would be deeply grateful. I am ready to take any job for now.

Dm me or Comment. I am ready to share my resume. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

I m 29m from india working as an employee in Mnc, earning 40k monthly I am just hs passed I quit my studies in bcom 1st year, abhi main bahut zyada confused hu kya main karoon aage life main agar aap puche meri interest ke bare me mujhe bahut pasand hai khud ka bussiness or startup karne ka but samjh nhi aata kha sikhna start karoon aur kitna seekhoon, mujhe pasand movies or series dekhna, dosto ke saath time spend krna, ghumna with friends, playing cricket or football aur job me rotational shift hai,meri body bhi skinny hai mujhe ghar bhi Lena, khud ki shaadi bhi krni, ek behen hai uski bhi shaadi krni, confidence level kharab hai, communication bhi sahi nhi, english seekhna bhi kya kya karoon, reels scrolling krne me addicted hoon is there any one who can help me to solve this problems of mine.......

Pls do comments or direct dm me .....

Looking for an ex-D2C founder who’s ready to build again.

We’re a funded health & wellness D2C startup, backed by one of India’s well-known consumer-focused funds.
We’ve already built a strong business in India and are now looking for someone to lead and scale our international business.

Looking for someone who:
\- Understands D2C inside out
\- Is strong with numbers and business fundamentals
\- Thinks like an owner
\- Loves solving hard problems
\- Wants to build something meaningful

We’ll be transparent, we can’t match the salaries of larger startups. Our budget is ₹1.0–1.2 lakh/month. There is no upfront ESOP commitment, but we’re open to discussing ESOPs after one year based on mutual fit and performance.

Location: Chhatarpur, Delhi (in-office)

If this sounds like you, or you know someone who’d be a great fit, please DM me.

🚀 Startup Co-Living Community

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm planning to create a Startup Co-Living Community for founders, developers, designers, freelancers, creators, and remote workers.

The idea isn't fixed to any one city yet. We'll first build a WhatsApp group, connect with genuine people, discuss everything together, and then decide the best location collectively.

The vision is simple:

🏠 Rent a large house or villa together.

💰 Keep living expenses low.

🚀 Work on our own startups or remote jobs.

🤝 Help each other with ideas, networking, accountability, and growth.

Most importantly, no one will be above anyone else. Everyone will have an equal voice in decisions. This isn't about one person leading everyone—it's about building a community where we all grow together.

Right now, I'm just looking for serious and ambitious people who would genuinely like to be a part of something like this.

If you're interested, comment below or DM me.

📱 WhatsApp: +91 8840529748

Let's build a house full of builders, not just roommates. 🚀

Hey folks, While running our form platform (VerifID Forms), we ran into a specific analytics bottleneck. Because we handle encrypted form submissions and data collection, we needed simple product analytics and conversion funnel tracking. However, our requirement list turned into a total dead end:

1. Zero-Cookie / No Consent Banner: We couldn't put intrusive cookie banners on forms just to track submission drop-off rates and completion funnels.
2. Webhook & Alert Hooks: We needed custom event triggers that could instantly fire webhooks (to send alerts over Email/WhatsApp when form drop-offs or SLAs hit thresholds).
3. The 18% Reverse Charge GST / USD Pricing Pain: Almost every privacy-first analytics tool (Plausible, Fathom, PostHog) charges in USD ($29–$49/mo). Selling or operating out of India means dealing with international credit card processing and an extra 18% GST (Reverse Charge Mechanism) overhead on foreign SaaS imports for basic event tracking.

We searched around for existing tools that checked all four boxes—zero-cookie, webhooks, conversion funnels, and local INR billing—and couldn't find a single lightweight option that fit. So we ended up building our own edge-native tracking stack: Mitr Analytics. How We Handled the Technical & Billing Constraints

• Stateless Hash Generation: To bypass cookie consent entirely, our edge functions generate daily-rotating hashes: SHA-256(IP + User Agent + Daily Salt). The salt is wiped at midnight UTC, so same-day funnels work without persistent tracking or cross-site profiling.
• Webhook Event Engine: Custom event triggers expose real-time webhooks, making it easy to bridge analytics directly into support/SLA workflows.
• Local INR Pricing (No 18% Foreign GST Overhead): We set up a free 10k monthly event tier, followed by localized pricing starting at ₹299/month (with proper GST invoicing so Indian businesses can claim ITC instead of paying unclaimable foreign import taxes).

Questions for Founders & Devs Here:

1. How do you currently handle foreign SaaS subscriptions vs local vendors to optimize your GST / tax overhead?
2. For those building MVPs in India, what integrations (Webhooks, WhatsApp, Slack) are essential for you on day 1 of tracking user funnels?

(Not dropping direct links in the main body to adhere to sub rules—happy to share what we built or discuss the setup in the comments below!)

Had a client come to me last week with a problem I’m seeing more often in 2026.

His team built their company website almost entirely inside Claude they were on a startup programme with free credits for 6 months. Sounded perfect: no agency, no contract, just prompt until it’s done.

By the time he actually counted usage, they’d burned through roughly $200,000 worth of Claude credits on website work alone. And they still weren’t properly live domain/DNS messy, analytics not wired, SEO meta half-done, forms flaky on mobile

When the free programme window started ending, he ran the numbers against hiring a part-time developer (he’s in India). The crossover was brutal: continuing to buy credits for ongoing site changes would cost more than paying an engineer who could edit real code once and handle integrations without re-explaining the whole project every session.

That’s the trap free credits create they don’t just subsidise building. They train prompt dependency. Website maintenance is endless small edits. If every edit routes through inference-priced credits, you’re paying Silicon Valley meter rates for work that doesn’t need regeneration.

Especially in markets like India where contract dev rates are very competitive, this math flips fast. Same story from US founders at higher API tiers different currency, same shape.

What I think works better:

• Use Claude inside an engineer’s workflow (draft markup, explore options)
• Don’t make credits the only way to change your homepage
• Someone owns deployable code + hosting + a backlog that isn’t “open chat and pray”

He said he wishes day one had been: design + copy → one production build → keep AI for ad-hoc help, not as the operating system for the whole site.

Question for the room: Anyone else hit the point where AI credits for web work cost more than just hiring? Curious how you’re structuring it so the team doesn’t get stuck on the meter.