I posted about my startup and the roles I was hiring for last month

What I got back was… a lot.

Vague one-liners. Non-responses. Hatred. Defamatory comments. People just talking shit for the sake of it. The classic Reddit special: zero seriousness, maximum attitude.

I’m not new to building things. I’m an entrepreneur. I expected some noise. I didn’t expect 99% of it to feel like that.

And yet.

Out of all that dust, three people showed up who were actually real.

Two senior-level folks, both with more than ten years of experience. One junior guy with an insane amount of pure passion.

That’s it. Three.

I’m not going to pretend this platform is some pure talent goldmine. It’s messy. It’s often dumb. People hide behind anonymity and say whatever feels good in the moment. A lot of it is just noise.

But those three existed. They were serious. They engaged like humans who actually care about building something.

So here’s where I’m at:

I still think Reddit can work for finding people if you’re willing to dig through the garbage. I’m not done with it. I’m here all day. Happy to talk to anyone who’s serious — founders, operators, people looking for roles, people who’ve had the same weird experience hiring (or getting hired) here.

Has anyone else tried hiring through Reddit and gotten this exact mix of pure chaos + a few diamonds?

Or is this just what the platform is now?

Drop your stories. I’m reading everything.

Hey everyone,

I'm from a Tier 1 college, spent 3 years at a global bank working on backend/payment systems. Decent pay, stable job, but honestly got tired of legacy systems, BAU and how slowly everything moved.

I tried switching internally, couldn't. Started automating my own work using Copilot, MCPs and custom workflows. At one point, building those automations was more interesting than my actual job.

Eventually quit without an offer because I wanted to work on something challenging. Then tore my ACL, which pretty much derailed my job search. Not my smartest few months lol.

Anyway, I've been keeping busy.

Since quitting, I've been spending most of my time contributing to open source and building developer tools. Mostly picking up bugs in codebases I've never worked with, figuring out what's going wrong and getting fixes merged. Also been experimenting quite a bit with AI coding agents. Honestly, this has been more interesting than most of the work I was doing at my previous job.

I enjoy digging into unfamiliar codebases and figuring things out. Don't really care whether it's Java, Go, Python or something I've never worked with.

I'm looking to join an early-stage startup full-time, even as a founding engineer if there's a fit. Not chasing a fancy title. Just want to work with people who genuinely care about what they're building.

Bangalore / Remote

If any founders here are looking for someone to own backend, infra or AI tooling, would love to chat. Happy to share my GitHub and resume.

I’m building an agentic AI platform for the construction industry and looking to connect with passionate full stack engineers who’d be excited to build something from the ground up.

If you’re into AI, building cool products and solving real-world problems, hit me up! Comp - upto 7L. JDs over DM. Would prefer freshers or folks with up to 3 years of experience.

DM me and I’ll share the JDs.

Hello ,
My family grows Khapli (emmer) wheat, chickpeas, green gram (moong) and pigeon peas (toor dal) on our farm for our own use.

We’ve been growing them without chemical inputs for the past 3 years and now have some surplus. I’m exploring selling small batches, including freshly milled flour.

Would you be interested? Are there any other farm products you’d like to buy?

DM if you’re interested

I m 2 years experienced i want to work in startups any idea where to start and where to find and approach this opportunities ?

Hi everyone!

I’m a 25F working in the pharma/corporate space, and I’m at a point where I really want to explore the entrepreneurial side of my personality.

My background is in PharmD, so yes, I’m technically a “Dr.”, but I don’t want my career to be limited to only the conventional pharma/medical route. I’m curious about startups, business, strategy, networking, management, marketing, and building something from scratch.

I’m looking for entrepreneurs or early-stage founders in Hyderabad who are genuinely building something and might be open to having someone contribute on weekends.

A little about what I can bring:

- PharmD + experience in the pharma/corporate environment

- Good communication and networking skills

- Management and coordination

- Understanding of healthcare/pharma and medical ecosystems

- Interest in business development, strategy, market research and competitive intelligence

- Comfortable talking to people, connecting with stakeholders and getting things moving

- Most importantly, I’m willing to learn and actually do the work

I’m not necessarily looking for a paid side hustle. If there’s a good learning opportunity and I can genuinely contribute to something meaningful, I’m happy to start there.

I want to spend my weekends around people who are building, experimenting, taking risks and creating something, rather than just consuming content about entrepreneurship.

So, Hyderabad — if you’re a founder, entrepreneur, early-stage startup, or someone building something interesting and you think there’s a way I could contribute on weekends, DM me.

I’d love to meet people, understand what they’re building and see if there’s a genuine fit.

Not looking for MLM/network marketing or generic “business opportunities.” Looking for people actually building something.

Hey everyone! This is 21M, a student and a startup founder started a year ago. And i'm not here to question you cuz i value ur time for reading post, thank you! So, I started my startup journey last year and I happen to recruit two people and then they were off and on not doing proper work and finally I build the product by myself alone. So it's an healthcare company and I realised by June 2026, that people don't exactly require it and I was stumbled whethere or not I should launch it. And today im here to ask for your opnion, tell whatever comes to your mind, its alright!

Did u ever feel sad or felt like only if something was there in clinic or hospital things would be fast, only if there was an app, maybe for appointments or bookings or maybe some app that is gonna fix your healthcare routine, or maybe a patient journey app, what exactly u felt maybe as imagination maybe this impossible thing existed people's life would be smooth, just like Zomato or Uber which made our life's simple. Once again, thank you for reading my post, your upvotes and comments are very close to my heart, I shall handle it very generosuly..."Customer is my King". THANK YOU!

Honestly, I’m getting a little bored and thought it would be nice to meet some new people around the area.

Looking for people who are up for things like:
🎮 Playing games / chilling
🏋️ Going to the gym
☕ Random conversations / hanging out
💡 Brainstorming business or startup ideas
🚀 Talking about interesting projects, businesses, or side hustles

Preferably people who are into business, startups, entrepreneurship, or just building something of their own — but honestly, anyone with a good vibe is welcome.

If you’re around Khajaguda / Nanakramguda / Gachibowli / Financial District/ Jubileehills, feel free to DM or comment. Maybe we can get a small group together and see where it goes.

Note: I’m into corporate advisory.

Looking for a full stack developer to work for our pre-revenue, bootstrapped startup. Only interested in folks who is willing to work in person at least 3 days a week and are based out of Hyderabad. You will work directly with the founders and opportunity to grow and upscale.

Little about the company: We are working on multiple products across sports and education sectors and about to launch 2 mobile/web based applications in a month.

Paid Internship^

If you are someone who can commit and who can productively use AI as well as have the tech expertise, DM

I'm a recent BTech CSE graduate from Hyderabad, India, with 2+ years of startup experience building, shipping, and working on real products.

I've been looking for a software engineering role for almost 3 months now.

I've tried pretty much everything — cold applications, LinkedIn DMs, emails, referrals, job boards, company career pages, startup hiring posts, etc.

I've applied to almost 1,000 positions at this point.

And out of all of that, I've had 2 proper interview opportunities.

The first one was for a Senior Software Engineer role. I obviously didn't have the years of experience they were looking for, but technically I was able to handle the interview. The main issue was simply the experience gap.

Interestingly, the company later reached out and said they were impressed by my background and wanted to consider me for an SDE role instead.

This was a US-based remote edtech company.

I went through their interview process.

The first interviewer was one of their engineers. I answered the technical questions and completed the tasks he gave me. Due to a technical issue, the interview had to be rescheduled.

Before the rescheduled interview, he gave me a task:

Build a RAG chatbot using government data.

I didn't just throw together something at the last minute. I actually built it before the next interview and was ready to discuss it.

Then the rescheduled interview started.

And a different interviewer joined.

I explained that I had already interviewed with another engineer, mentioned the RAG task I had been given, and explained that I had built the project.

He basically said, "Leave that for now, we'll see."

So I moved on.

He started going through my projects with fairly deep technical questions and then gave me a task to make changes to one of my existing projects.

Honestly, this was the best interview I've given so far.

I was able to explain my architecture, technical decisions, projects, and implementation details. I completed the task he gave me and felt pretty good about the whole conversation.

For the first time in this entire job search, I genuinely thought:

"Okay, maybe this is it."

The next day, I got an email saying they didn't think it was an ideal fit at this time.

The entire process had taken around 10 days.

And I was back to applying again.

I'm not posting this to complain about the company or say they made the wrong decision. They obviously have their own reasons for hiring decisions.

But after ~1,000 applications, cold DMs, emails, referrals, career pages, etc., it gets pretty exhausting when you barely get opportunities to actually demonstrate what you can do.

A little about me

I'm a recent BTech CSE graduate from Hyderabad, India, with 2+ years of startup experience.

I've spent the last couple of years actually building and shipping products rather than just working on college projects.

My main areas are:

- Software Engineering

- Full Stack Development

- AI Engineering

- LLMs / RAG

- Agentic AI

- Backend & Cloud

- System Design

Tech I've worked with includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Cloudflare, AWS/GCP, along with LLMs, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, vector databases, and AI agents.

I'm currently looking for SDE / Software Engineer / Full Stack / AI Engineer opportunities.

I'm open to remote roles or opportunities in Hyderabad.

If anyone here is hiring, knows a team hiring junior/early-career engineers, or can refer me to a relevant opening, I'd really appreciate it.

And if you've been through a similar situation — especially going from hundreds of applications to barely getting interviews — I'd genuinely like to hear how you handled it.

Thanks for reading.

Hey there this is 21M, Hyderabad and its been a year since I started my startup jouney and i happen to build a product of healthcare, but the thing is I didnt really feel it was the best, and i asked lots of people and it was pretty average. And something struck on my mind..what if anyone in the comments or audience gives me the best healthcare startup idea or maybe realted to healthcare, or other, and if it has potential, which should be of SaaS (Software as Service) based on AI if possible or gives a proper problem you guys faced in reality or are facing daily...

Then I shall build an SaaS Website or App for it, and if it really generates me a revenue I am ready to give u 2 percent of my profit. It's not a joke, cuz as a student, intern, and a founder, I am eager to solve a problem that people face but everyone tells around that everything is built, its not needed, we have AI, no one needs startups now.

I just wanna prove them wrong, maybe AI can help my startup grow. And if u think u can pitch me the best problem or with best innovative idea, then i shall pay you 2 percent if i gain profit on it. Just fill the comments or dm me up.

Thanks for investing your time by reading this, it means a lot!

Hey Hyderabadis,

I’m a 27-year-old guy from Hyderabad, and I’m at a point where I genuinely want to start a business instead of depending entirely on a job for my income.

I don’t have a fixed business idea yet, and honestly, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I’m looking to connect with people who are in the same phase — people who want to explore different business ideas, discuss how much capital we’d need, understand the risks, figure out potential returns, and eventually decide whether there’s something worth actually pursuing.

It could be anything — a small local business, service-based business, online business, e-commerce, food, manufacturing, or something completely different. The idea is to brainstorm together and see what makes sense, rather than jumping into something blindly.

Because honestly, how long do we want to keep living with the fear of losing our jobs while earning roughly the same amount every year? Isn’t it a little boring knowing that your income is basically tied to your salary?

I’m not saying quitting your job tomorrow and gambling your savings is the answer. I’m saying let’s explore whether we can build something of our own while we still have our jobs and income.

If you’re also thinking along these lines, comment here or DM me. Maybe a few of us can connect, exchange ideas, and see where it goes.

Let’s try something, Hyderabadis.

Are there any IT startup company owners/founders here on this subreddit ?

I have a few questions and would really appreciate some insights from someone who has actually started and runs an IT company.

If there’s anyone here, please comment below or feel free to DM me. Thanks in advance! 🙏

Hello bruhs 🙋‍♀️ don't be a mean ass, just comment

How are you all doing with your business or startup journeys. What do you actually come here for , I mean this sub ?

I keep coming here expecting to find interesting conversations about startups, founders, ideas, hiring, funding etc., but somehow the sub often feels very quiet. 😩😩

Also is there anything you are currently trying to figure out ? Put it out here, if someone already went through it or has more information would respond to you in the comments , it may help , save you some time and energy 😌, let's unburden you for this weekend

Hyderabad has an interesting startup community hiding inside this subreddit, and maybe we just haven't started talking to each other yet

Guys tell me - are you an early sleeper, late-night thinker, weekend worker, or I will figure it out on Monday kind of person, lolll. I guess it's normalised to think and work after 12 am 😑

Hey folks.

I’m looking at getting into contract broiler farming, and I could use some real talk from people actually doing this. I get the basic model, integrator gives chicks, feed, and medicine, I build the shed and raise the birds, they come pick up and pay per kilo. Sounds simple until you actually think about it, then suddenly you have twenty questions, like me right now.

Quick ones I’m stuck on. Should I buy the land first or talk to integrators before locking that in? How many birds can I realistically fit on one acre? Semi E.C. shed or go full E.C. and just cry about the budget later? Anyone actually get a bank loan for this, or did you self-fund and pray?

And the one that keeps me up at night, how do you actually check the chicks and feed they hand you are good quality, or is it basically a trust fall with your bank account? Would love to hear from anyone who has survived a full cycle or two, war stories welcome.

Hey Guys, I recently started my software agency. So I learned one thing from a businessman told the networking is more important than your business idea. If your business dump still you get leads through networking. So this made me think. So I want to plan a small meetup with at least 5 to 6 memebers how are already started their founder's journey or are ready to start. So the people Who are Live in Telangana, Hyderabad, near HiTech city, Dm me; let's plan, and Let's grow together .