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 My Oracle PPO was revoked because of organizational/headcount changes.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 have and know resources. Editors, DOPs, writers, Vfx artists, graders and I come from direction experience.

Now I’m looking for someone who would wanna partner with me who specifically has

distribution/client contacts.. i.e who can get clients so that we can execute either production or post production projects

I’m good at executing end to end, I’m looking for someone who’s good at business development

Anyone interested to start a production house and become a partner.. drop a DM. Let’s chat!

I have a proper startup idea and Iam 100% sure that it will hit and click to the audience. The target audience nearly millions.

The thing lacking is how to apply for further proceedings to register and funding, I researched about what to do next and what stages involved but end of the day it needs proper funding, and also it need some experienced developers to manage this application for scalable, security etc..

What I personally felt is, even though if there is no way of proper funding, we can manage. But what I need majorly is experienced developers for making it production level.

If anyone interested DM me, its might be Ur side work and but it has a proper scope.

Sorry it is gonna be a long ranting-begging-post. Please bear with me.

I never thought I would be writing a post like this on Reddit.

But here I am.

I've been unemployed for around 1.5 years now.

When I lost my job, I genuinely believed I'd find something within a few months. I kept applying, networking, learning, improving my resume, building projects, reaching out to people and trying to stay positive.

A few months became six. Six became a year.

And now it's been around 18 months.

I'm tired!! Not just financially. Mentally and emotionally too.

There is something incredibly difficult about waking up every morning without knowing when your professional life is going to restart. You start questioning your abilities. Your relevance. Your decisions. Sometimes, even your own sense of worth.

And today, I've decided to let my ego and pride take a backseat.

I've spent months trying to present myself through my experience, achievements and everything I've accomplished over the years -

1. I've put together resumes.

2. I've sent applications.

3. I've networked.

4. I've joined courses.

5. I've tried referrals.

6. I've tried telling people what I've done and what I can bring to the table.

And honestly, after doing this for 18 months, I've come to a painful realization: None of it seems to matter if nobody is willing to give you that first opportunity to prove yourself.

So I'm deliberately not going to make this post about my past achievements. I'm not going to list everything I've done. I'm not going to tell you how many years I've worked or how impressive my previous roles may or may not have been.

Because right now, none of that is what I'm asking for. I'm asking for a chance to work.

I have a 9-year-old daughter. And that's probably the part of this entire situation that weighs on me the most.

She's at an age where she's beginning to understand what work means, what responsibility means, and what it means when a parent is constantly trying to figure things out. I don't want her to see her father as someone who gave up. I want her to see someone who got knocked down, struggled for a long time, but kept getting back up.

That's a big reason I'm writing this.

I've reached a point where I'm completely willing to start from the ground up. I don't care about the title.

I don't care if the role is below the level I've previously worked at. I don't care if I have to start over.

I'll unlearn and relearn. I'll work hard, once more. I'll prove myself, again.

I just want to be useful again. I want to wake up knowing I have somewhere to be and something meaningful to work on.

I want to be able to provide for my family without constantly wondering how much longer I can keep going like this. And, frankly, I want to regain some of the mental stability and confidence that prolonged unemployment has slowly taken away from me.

So I'm putting this out here. Not as a polished professional. Not as someone trying to convince you how accomplished I am. Just as a person who has been out of work for 18 months and is genuinely asking for a chance.

I'm open to:

• Strategy & Operations

• Chief of Staff / Business Operations

• Product / Product Operations

• Project / Program Management

• Early-stage startup roles where I can wear multiple hats

I'm also completely open to roles that may be considered below my previous level.

If you're a founder, hiring manager, recruiter, or simply someone who knows someone who might be looking for a reliable person who is willing to work hard and start from the ground up, then I would genuinely appreciate an introduction.

I don't expect anyone on Reddit to solve my problems. I don't expect sympathy. I'm asking for an opportunity to earn my way back.

If you have a lead, referral, introduction, advice, or even just a direction you think I should explore, please comment or DM me.

I never thought I would have to write something like this. But sometimes you have to put your pride aside, admit that you need help, and ask.

So that's what I'm doing. If this post reaches even one person who says, "Let's have a conversation," it will have been worth writing.

Thank you for reading.

I've watched a lot of founders (friends, past colleagues, people I've worked with) hit the same wall. Not a big dramatic collapse. A slow one. They're growing, sales look fine, and then one day they realize they're short on cash for payroll, or a vendor payment they forgot about is now overdue, or GST input credit is bleeding out somewhere nobody checked.

The money was never really "hidden." It was just scattered. Some in the bank, some in Razorpay, some in an Excel sheet nobody's opened since the seed round, some in a WhatsApp message from the CA. No single source lies to you exactly, but no single source tells you the truth either.

So I built Margyn.

At the base level it's dead simple: a free ledger where you log what's coming in, what's going out, what you owe, what's owed to you, and you can generate invoices from inside it too. No accounting background needed, nothing to set up.

But that's not really the point of it. The actual idea is that as you start using more tools, Margyn connects to them directly and pulls it all into one place automatically, and tells you what's actually at risk and what to fix. Razorpay and Zoho Books are live right now, and I'm adding more connectors regularly based on what people actually ask for(tally, bank feeds, gst, marg, khatabook, etc.).

I'm not trying to sell "another dashboard." I want it to be the one place that just tells you the truth about your business without you having to go dig for it.

It's free right now and I'm building it based on what actual founders say they need, not what I assume they need. If you run a business and want to try it, or just want to tell me what's missing, I'd genuinely rather hear the criticism now than after.

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I have a digital product built for product teams, founders and lean teams. I need help in distribution.

Is there anyone who can help me out?

It's not just an idea, it's a realtime problem we have solved, just need to reach and crack the distribution.

HI CS grad 2026, looking for a full-time AI/ML OR JR roles. I build ML systems end-to-end and can explain and defend every line. My father recently passed away, and I need to step up and support my family financially. I'm highly motivated, a fast learner, and ready to contribute from day one.

What I've built:

• DocMind — Deployed RAG pipeline: OCR → chunking → sentence-transformers → FAISS → LLaMA on Groq. Live on Streamlit. Debugged the OCR and vector-store layers myself.
• HalluGuard — Hallucination detection benchmarked on RAGTruth; moved from cosine similarity to an NLI cross-encoder after diagnosing why topic-relatedness ≠ entailment.
• Attention guard (anti-doom scroller ) -
• Windows productivity tool to prevent doom-scrolling while studying. Built from my own idea, end-to-end.(for windows so you dont doom scroll while u study[MY OWN IDEA])

Stack: Python, PyTorch, TypeScript, sentence-transformers, FAISS, Kotlin/TFLite, Streamlit ,PYTORCH

Open to startups, small teams, and contract-to-hire roles.

Location: WILLING TO RELOCATE (21 f)

Are Indian businesses ready to move from AI automation to real AI integration?

A lot of the discussion around AI in Indian businesses still seems focused on automation — chatbots, content generation, workflow tools, and reducing repetitive work.

But I think the more interesting question is what happens after automation.

For example, AI could potentially become part of:

• customer research and market analysis
• sales and GTM decision-making
• internal knowledge management
• product development
• customer support
• forecasting and business intelligence
• identifying operational bottlenecks

The challenge is that simply adding an AI tool doesn't necessarily create a better business. The difficult part seems to be integrating AI into existing processes while keeping humans responsible for important decisions.

I'm especially interested in the difference between AI adoption and AI integration.

AI adoption = "We're using ChatGPT and a few AI tools."

AI integration = "AI has become part of how we research, make decisions, build products, and operate the company."

Do you think most Indian startups and businesses are still in the first stage?

And what is one business function where you think AI integration will have the biggest impact over the next 2–3 years?

Starting a business at a young age can feel strange.

People may tell you to focus only on studies, get a degree, find a safe career and think about business later.

But I’ve started realizing something:

You don’t need to wait until you’re older to start learning how to build.

Building MyExpert has taught me that entrepreneurship isn’t just about having an idea.

It’s about:

Talking to real customers

Understanding real problems

Building something people actually need

Learning from mistakes

Handling rejection

Improving every single day

Staying consistent when nobody is watching

I’m still learning.

I don’t have everything figured out. I’m going to make mistakes, change things, start over and probably get a lot of things wrong.

And honestly, that’s okay.

Because starting young gives you something incredibly valuable:

Time to learn.

My goal with MyExpert is bigger than just building an app. I want to learn how to build a real company, create opportunities for local people and eventually build something that can represent Kashmir beyond Kashmir.

I’m starting from Budgam, Kashmir.

Small beginning. Big vision.

If you’re also young and thinking about starting something, don’t wait for the “perfect time.”

Start small. Learn fast. Keep building.

The journey itself is the education. 🚀

Quick context: I'm building an ed-tech platform out of India, project-based learning for data science/ML folks who've done the tutorials but have zero real portfolio. Bootstrapped, basically no funds right now, definitely can't afford to register a Pvt Ltd yet.

Here's where I've landed and I want to sanity check it before I actually launch.

For Indian users, I'm signing up on Razorpay as an individual using my personal PAN, no company needed. Money goes to my personal account, and at tax time I just declare it under presumptive taxation (44ADA) since I'm under the threshold. Seems clean and legal for a solo setup at this stage.

For international users, this is where I'm less sure. Directly collecting USD/EUR payments myself apparently gets into FEMA "export of services" territory, which wants proper banking channels and paperwork I don't have. So instead I'm looking at using a third-party reseller-type payment platform that acts as the actual legal seller to the foreign customer, handles all their tax/compliance stuff, and just pays me out normally. Costs more in fees than doing it directly, but seems way cleaner than trying to handle cross-border compliance myself with zero infra.

I was facing interruptions frequently from my uncle, as he is old and he is a business owner. He wants to make quotations or invoices, so he always needs someone like an assistant to make those. He always interrupts me when I am working and says, "Beta, please mujhe quotation banake de toh is client ke liye ya bill banake dedo is client ke liye" It also wastes time because I am busy with my work and can't just do other work in the middle of my work.

So I thought, why not I should make a chatbot for him to help him out. And I made that, and it really helped my uncle...

After that, I thought we can maybe make this as a business for many business founders who are dependent on someone like their assistant or someone else. They can simply just send a voice message, text, or photo, and the chatbot will ask them to confirm and then make the PDF. I want you to try this out. Below is the number. Message it, test it out, and give feedback on what you think about this.

Its name is BillSathi: +91 85912 63807.

Hey everyone,

I’m a 16-year-old student from India looking to join an early-stage startup remotely as a GTM / Growth / Strategy co-founder or early founding team member.

I’m not looking for a paid job right now. I’m primarily looking for real startup experience, learning, and the opportunity to build something meaningful with a strong team.

What I can bring

My strongest areas are:

• Social media algorithm analysis — understanding content distribution, engagement, retention, and growth
• GTM strategy — figuring out positioning, target users, acquisition channels, and growth experiments
• Project economics & optimization — analyzing costs, resources, ROI, and finding ways to make projects more efficient
• Product and market research
• AI/tech understanding — enough to work closely with technical founders and understand complex products
• Content and distribution strategy
• Rapid experimentation and data-driven decision making

I’m especially interested in AI, deep tech, developer tools, robotics, engineering, and consumer technology.

I’ve also been working on my own ideas involving AI video editing/production, AI agents, engineering tools, and deep-tech systems, so I understand both the technical and product side of building.

What I’m looking for

I’d love to join an early-stage startup where I can take ownership of things like:

GTM → Growth → Social → Market Research → User Acquisition → Strategy → Business Optimization

I’m open to being a co-founder, founding team member, or early GTM contributor, depending on the startup and situation.

Remote is ideal.

I’m not expecting a salary at this stage. My main goal is to gain serious experience, contribute meaningfully, and learn how an actual startup goes from 0 → users → product-market fit → growth.

If you're a founder building something ambitious and think my skill set could be useful, DM me.

Please include:

• What you're building
• Current stage
• What you're looking for
• Your website/demo if you have one
• What you'd expect me to own

I’m much more interested in actually building and executing than collecting another line on a résumé.

Hi everyone,

I am 22M, a product engineer, looking for a non-technical co-founder who genuinely wants to build a company for the long term.

I have spent the last couple of years building and shipping products end-to-end mobile apps, backend, websites, APIs, deployments, analytics, and more.

Right now, I am building Kash a money companion. I want to keep building Kash, but I am also open to discovering a better opportunity together if we find one.

Who I am looking for

Someone around 20-26 who wants entrepreneurship to become their career, not just something to try for a few months.

I would especially value someone strong in UI/UX, understanding users, product thinking, marketing, growth, distribution, partnerships, or positioning. UI/UX is particularly important to me since it's an area where I am not very strong.

I am looking for someone who:

- Takes ownership and makes decisions independently

- Enjoys understanding users and solving real problems

- Is comfortable with uncertainty and changing direction

Doesn't give up just because an idea doesn't work

Is serious about building something and willing to commit

You don't need a startup background or a perfect idea. I am more interested in how you think, what drives you, and whether we work well together.

If this resonates with you, send me a DM with a little about yourself, what you're currently doing, anything you have built, and why you want to build a company.