r/StartUpIndia

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THANK YOU EVERYONE.

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i wake up around 6 and board bus around 9 am for 10 am job. all my business work remain pending then i wake up do scraps in morning. I'm also not financially stable so no comments on leaving job.

I also do feel weak

So I'm in the process of registering a Pvt Ltd company and I'm looking at different timelines depending on where I look.

Razorpay Rize claims you can get incorporated in 15 days. Vakilsearch says 7-10 working days. IndiaFilings shows something like fast track available in 5 days. But I've read enough Reddit threads to know that advertised timelines almost never match reality.

I'm leaning toward Razorpay Rize mainly because the process looks more guided and structured, but I honestly have no idea if their ""15 days"" timeline is realistic or if there are bottlenecks they're not mentioning.

What I'm actually trying to understand:

If you used an online platform (Razorpay Rize, Vakilsearch, IndiaFilings, or others), how long did the process actually take from start to finish? Not their advertised timeline—your actual timeline.

Where did things slow down? Like, was it:

Name approval taking longer than expected?

DSC (Digital Signature Certificate) causing delays?

Document verification being slow?

Government processing taking way longer than claimed?

Registered office setup delaying the process?

Some random reason nobody mentions?

If you went through a local CA instead of an online platform, how long did they say it would take vs. how long it actually took?

Did the timeline they promised match what actually happened? Or was there a bunch of back-and-forth, rejections, or waiting periods they didn't account for?

Real question: Does using ""fast track"" or ""expedited"" options actually speed things up, or is it just marketing? Have you or anyone you know used those and actually seen faster incorporation?

State matters? Did anyone notice their registration taking way longer or shorter depending on which state they were registering in? Like, is registering in one state faster than another?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to plan my business launch timeline, and I need to know if I should budget for 2 weeks, a month, or longer. I don't want to commit to hiring people or signing contracts assuming I'll have my certificate in 15 days, only to find out it's taking 45 days because of some step everyone else got stuck on.

Would love to hear actual experiences from people who've been through this recently.

Nothing crazy, just one customer. But after months of cold emails, calls, demos and getting ignored 😂 this feels huge.

For other Indian founders selling outside India, how did u get ur first international customer?

Hey everyone,

I’m 28M and recently moved from the US to India permanently.

At this stage of my life, I’ve realized that I don’t really want to spend the next several years just following the traditional 9-to-5 path. I want to eventually build something of my own something useful, sustainable, and capable of becoming a real business.

I don’t have a fixed startup idea that I’m trying to recruit people for. In fact, I’d rather start from scratch.

I’m looking to connect with ambitious, curious, execution-oriented people who are also interested in entrepreneurship. We could discuss problems worth solving, explore different industries, validate ideas, challenge each other’s thinking, and see if there’s something worth building together.

I’m not expecting someone to become a co-founder after one conversation. The idea is simply to meet good people with a similar mindset, have meaningful discussions, and see where things go.

If you're someone who has been thinking, “I want to build something, but I haven't figured out exactly what yet,” I'd be happy to connect.

And if there are experienced founders/business owners here who have already gone through this journey, I’d genuinely appreciate any advice on how you would approach this stage — finding problems, meeting the right people, validating ideas, and getting started.

Feel free to DM me if this resonates. Happy to connect and have a conversation.

Recently I left a startup because they don't have the budget to onboard me full time. But while working there, I noticed one thing that I could have handled their entire project single handedly. This giving me a little confidence to start a B2B startup. Now say me, do I need 50 lakhs as a leverage to think about a startup or 50K is enough.

I want to grow step by step. First one client, later multiple clients and then a pure product etc.

I'm 28M now. Been exploring this software field for the past 7years

I’m exploring a HealthTech startup focused on preventive health and regular home diagnostics.

The idea is to make it easier for people to keep track of their health reports over time and stay consistent with their routine health checks, including convenient home sample collection.

I’m currently looking for a co-founder with experience in:

• Diagnostics / pathology
• Home sample collection
• Healthcare operations
• HealthTech
• Healthcare partnerships

Having existing connections with diagnostic labs, phlebotomists, or healthcare providers would be a big plus.

I’m looking for someone who wants to build and validate the idea together, not just work as an employee or freelancer.

If this interests you, feel free to DM me and we can discuss the idea further.

India’s 20M+ gig workers earn through platforms, but traditional credit systems often struggle to understand their actual income and cash flow.

I’m building a financial identity and underwriting layer that helps lenders better assess platform based workers.

We’re currently building the MVP and raising a small angel round to get to our first pilots.

Right now, the most valuable help would be introductions to:

Angels interested in fintech/lending

NBFCs or lenders willing to pilot

CXOs/founders at gig platforms

Even a relevant introduction or lead would be extremely helpful.

DM me if you can connect me with someone relevant.

Hi everyone,
I’m a 26 year old lawyer with 2.5 years of experience in commercial disputes, arbitration and corporate matters, and I’m now looking to make a somewhat unconventional career move from legal into a business role.

I’ve spent the last few years working on commercial matters, including arbitration disputes involving large real estate investments, shareholder disputes, regulatory matters and a few fairly high-stakes transactions/disputes. I’ve also had the opportunity to work on the other side of the table during a secondment with a real estate investment firm, which is where I realised that I enjoyed understanding the business behind the legal problem much more than just the legal problem itself.
That’s what I’m trying to move towards now.

I’m particularly interested in roles such as:
Founder’s Office/Chief of Staff
Business Development
Strategy/Operations
Legal + Business/Commercial roles

Or honestly, any role where I can work closely with the founders and get exposure to how a business is actually built.

I’m not looking for a role where I simply hand over legal advice and go home. I want to be involved in figuring things out, solving problems, speaking to people and generally doing whatever needs to be done.

I’m especially interested in early-stage startups, where wearing multiple hats is part of the job.

I know that I’m not the obvious candidate for a business role. My background is predominantly legal. But I think that can also be useful if someone is willing to take a bet on me.

If you’re a founder building something interesting and think someone with this background could be useful, I’d genuinely love to have a conversation.
Even if you don’t have a formal opening, feel free to DM me.

Will you use a very easy to setup free invoicing software with crm. But all the data will only be in your local machine. No cloud backup. But you can take local backups.

For a cloud hosted version you need to pay around 200 to 500 INR per month. That includes stuff like cloud backups, multi user, multi device, etc.

What feature would it need for you to betray your current invoicing software or the ones that are already free in the market?

I don't want to ask help but here I'm...

So initially I hesitated alott to ask anyone for any sort of help but I feel like this is what life is and it has taught me many things by the passing time.

I'm currently doing MCA and it's the 3rd sem and tbh I've applied at many places for jobs and internships (for 4th sem) but I'm not getting any positive feedback.I feel like although I'm a fresher but still the companies should give chance to the young minds coz we too are capable of doing good things. I've only got a rejection emails and still haven't stop and i won't.

I'm trying my best and I'm trying to find the jobs and if any of you guys have any opportunity then you can pls help me out with it coz at this point I wanna earn and do something for my parents and myself coz I wanna make my parents realise that although I'm a girl I can do things for them and do much better in my life.

We are a bootstrapped team of 2 people with a chef and a helper operating from a small unit in Delhi.

Launched a month ago and have seen good traction on the products on Amazon, D2C, offline.

We’re going live on Qcom end of this month.

If you’re someone with a F&B background and looking to join with capital - kindly DM for details!

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Hello!

I'm a SAHM to a 9-month-old baby. I have 4.5 yrs of experience in sales/admissions counseling for students wishing to study abroad. Given that the workload is quite hectic, I won't be resuming the job at my current workplace. I'm looking to transition into a simpler role, preferably part-time, but I can accommodate full-time if required.

Skills- good communication, quick learner (the first company I worked for was a startup, hence, I got the chance to learn different skills as required for the job), problem-solving, etc.

Please let me know if you guys have any vacancies. I cannot take any on-site work until at least my baby turns 2. Tysmm!!

I keep seeing people asking for startup ideas, so here's one I've noticed:

Why isn't there a really simple Indian equivalent of Ko-fi/Gumroad where someone can create a page, sell digital products/services, accept payments, and then withdraw their earnings directly through UPI?

There are platforms that solve parts of this, but a lot of the existing creator/payment ecosystem still involves things like PayPal or Stripe, which can be considerably more complicated for a young Indian creator or someone running a tiny side business.

And India seems like a particularly good market for this. There are tons of young people selling things online now digital art, templates, notes, courses, design work, commissions, small products, etc. A lot of them don't want to set up a full-fledged business/payment stack just to receive ₹200 from someone.

Imagine something like:

Create page → add product/service → share link → customer pays via UPI → money sits in your platform balance → withdraw to bank/UPI.

Basically Ko-fi/Gumroad + UPI + an India-first onboarding experience.

The interesting question is why this hasn't become the obvious default yet. Is the difficult part regulation/compliance, payment settlement, taxes, fraud/chargebacks, or is there simply not enough demand?

If someone built this properly, I'd be curious to hear what the biggest technical/regulatory obstacle would actually be.

We’ve launched our IAM product for employees, but initial distribution is proving to be challenging. I’m trying to understand how the MSP (Managed Service Provider / IT consultant) model works.

Is it worth connecting with MSPs for distribution? What kind of partnership/revenue model do they generally work on? How do they typically evaluate and onboard products like ours?

Our product is priced at ₹125/user/month and covers:

- User provisioning & deprovisioning

- SSO

- MFA

- Audit logs

- A unified app for accessing all company tools

I Would love to hear from founders or people who have worked with MSPs, especially around how to approach them, what they expect, and whether this could be a viable distribution channel for an IAM product at this price point.

I'd built the product. I'd tested it. People had used it for free and said good things. Everything was technically ready.

But the moment I had to put an actual number on something I'd made with my own hands and send it to a real person and wait for them to decide if it was worth that something completely different happened in my chest.

What if they said no. What if they laughed at the price. What if they paid and then felt cheated three days later.

All of that hit at once while I was staring at a payment link I'd spent 20 minutes constructing.

I sent it anyway.

They paid within 4 minutes.

I sat there for a while doing nothing. Not celebrating. Just sitting. Something about that transaction felt more real than anything that had happened in the previous 8 months combined. All the building, all the late nights, all the "almost ready" conversations at dinner — none of it felt as real as that one notification.

₹90k is not life changing money. I know that.

But it was the first time someone who didn't know me, didn't owe me anything, had no reason to be generous decided what I built was worth something to them.

That's a different feeling entirely from everything before it.

First paying customer was harder emotionally than I thought it would be. Anyone else find that the money part hits differently than you expected?

I am not a big company. Just a small business. For my work, I need good virtual assistants, CA and financial analysts.

I have always cried while finding a decent person. If I post an ad, I will get a dozen mediocre people over-promising me stuff. When I finally hire someone, they always turn out opposite. Chasing them to finish work, delivering incorrect work and so on.

I am so tired. I feel like I should be doing everything on my own instead.

P.S. Don't send me message applying for a job. I am tired. I won't reply to you.