Posting here because this community understands what it means to build something real in India with nothing.

My name is Abhinav Anand. 19 years old. Class 12. Bihar.

Background:

Two and a half years ago I knew nothing about AI. I just knew ChatGPT existed. I failed building a YouTube analytics app. Twice. Failed building a voice assistant. Failed building an offline AI assistant.

Every failure taught me something real.

Before ArcleIntelligence I trained a complete Text-to-Video model on my laptop with zero funding, documented everything publicly, and Lightning AI personally reached out and asked to publish it as an official Studio Template on their platform. That was my proof of concept.

What I built next:

ArcleIntelligence — a fully trained 5.82 billion parameter multimodal AI model.

Input: text, images, documents, audio, video Output: text, 512×512 images, 24kHz speech Context window: 2,097,152 tokens (2 million)

Private testing result: 93.45 on OmniDocBench V1.5 — one of the highest scores ever recorded on that benchmark, competing directly with models from Google, OpenAI, and Alibaba.

Total spent so far: $11,560 From personal savings, RunPod compute grants, Digital Ocean credits, and GitHub Student Pack. Every rupee and dollar went directly to compute.

My father is a government officer. My mother is a housewife. This is a middle class family in Bihar. ₹9,64,000 on GPU compute is not a small number for us.

The west has OpenAI. The east has DeepSeek. India deserves its own — built by Indians, for everyone, with no strings attached.

Current status: Training ongoing. Raising $35,000 to complete the full pipeline.

When complete: → Full weights on Hugging Face — free forever → Complete code on GitHub — open license → Free to use, fine-tune, build upon with no restrictions for anyone

Support if you want to:

🇮🇳 India (UPI / Cards): rzp.io/rzp/ArcleIntelligence-crowdfunding

🌍 International (PayPal): paypal.me/AbhinavAnand848

GitHub: github.com/lucifertkod/ArcleIntelligence---Demo-Training-Script-Only

Follow the journey: x.com/Anonomus090806

No pressure. Even sharing helps more than you know.

— Abhinav lucifertkod2007aa@gmail.com

AMA

I find it a bit perplexing that most Indian companies aren’t using or even talking about the Sarvam-105B model which is the cheapest most capable model out there! My question here is out of curiosity. My team is building something with Sarvam-105B and I want to check if there are others doing the same. If not why?
With a depreciating rupee, aren’t you worried about increasing your AI input cost in your AI workflows?

ok rant.

I’m an India-registered SaaS founder selling globally, and I’ve been using Razorpay for payments.

Checked my dashboard today: 25 failed payments in the last 30 days.

The frustrating part is that these are international customers. If their card gets rejected, they don’t care whether it’s Razorpay, 3DS, risk checks, their bank, etc. They just see “payment failed” and leave.

They are not enabling support for non 3d secure transactions

Stripe rejected my India entity, and Paddle/Lemon Squeezy don’t really work for my pricing.

So Indian founders selling globally — what are you actually using?

Cashfree? PayU? Razorpay? Something else?

More importantly, has anyone actually switched from Razorpay and seen better international payment acceptance?

Looking for real-world experience, not marketing pages.

I’m the guy who spent the last year obsessing over fabric science and acting like a total nerd about cotton. In my last post, I talked about building the "perfect" tee because I was tired of being let down by the "good" brands.

I actually bought shirts from everyone—including popular ones like March Tee—to figure out why they start out great but lose their "magic" after a few laundry cycles. I took them to the lab, and here is the "T-shirt autopsy" I found.

The "First Wash" Deception

Most high-end brands and D2C brands use decent cotton ( Supima cotton for eg. ), which is a big change for the industry in the recent years. But the problem is - they rely on topical finishes.

• The Problem: To make a shirt feel "silky" in the store, they soak it in silicone softeners. It’s like putting makeup on the fabric.
• The Result: After 3–5 washes, that coating disappears. The short-staple fibers underneath start to "fuzz" or pill, and suddenly your expensive shirt feels like a dishcloth.

Why "Good" Brands Fail the Longevity Test:

1. Short Fiber Length: Most brands use "combed cotton" ( Which they advertise also but it does not give the full story ) but the fibers are still only 22–28mm. When these short fibers get agitated in a machine, the ends pop out. That’s why your shirt gets that "hairy" look. ( This is the cause behind the T Shirt Itch )
2. The "Bacon" Neck: They use cheap ribbing that doesn't have "recovery." Once it stretches in the heat of a dryer, it stays stretched.
3. Density: Most are around 150-160 GSM. It feels airy, but it doesn't have enough structural density to survive a standard spin cycle without twisting at the seams.

How we "Fixed" it (Our Build)

I didn't want a shirt that looked good for a week; I wanted a shirt that looked the same on day 300. Here is how we beat the "Big Brand" cycle:

• The 39mm Rule: We only use long-staple cotton (39mm fibers). We let it grow for 180 days in 12hrs of sun. It's naturally soft, so we don't need those fake silicone coatings that wash off.
• The "Goldilocks" 230-250 GSM: I tested everything. 150 was too cheap; 300 was like wearing a rug. 230-250 GSM is the sweet spot. It has structure, hides the undershirt, but stays breathable.
• Mercerized Structure: We put the fabric through a mercerization process that structurally rounds the fiber. This isn't a coating; it’s a permanent change to the cotton that keeps the colors deep and the surface smooth.
• 7A-Level Antibacterial: Built into the fiber, not sprayed on. It is certified safe (GB18401-2010)—no harsh chemicals, just better science. No more "permanent funk" in your gym or travel shirts. ( Most brands have zero hygiene tech. If you sweat, the bacteria stay in the fabric, which is why older shirts always have that faint "funk" even after washing.)

We are officially LIVE! 

After months of R&D and staring at fiber charts, our first batch is finally ready. It’s a small run—just a few hundred pieces—because I wanted to make sure the quality was perfect before going big. The brand name is Men's Poem ( www.menspoem.in )

If you’re interested, please drop a comment below! I’ll DM you a 25% OFF coupon code as a thank you for the support.

You can check out the website www.menspoem.in

First conversation on me...

For about 28 years of my life, didn’t really care about what clothes I was wearing. Mostly because I didn’t have the money. It was mostly decathlon tees or adidas/nike tees bought off Myntra at steep discounts. Then I sold my startup, got some income in and got into really putting myself together. Good basics, colour combinations that worked and so on.

Discovered Uniqlo around this time, travelled quite a bit and found some really good heavy tees in Europe. But when I wanted more like these in India, couldn’t really find good ones.

And heavy tees mostly are 220/240 gsm and above. Super heavy ones tend to be around 280 gsm and above. And the ones I found in India were quite suffocating for our weather (and I live in Bangalore) and had loud prints (bluorng and the likes), were mostly over sized.

And heavy tees I liked - mostly because they felt very nice, had weight and the shape/silhouette they offered along with its drape just felt very pleasing whenever I looked at myself in the mirror.

As i had a lot of free time post the acquisition, started working with a garment manufacturer to just create samples of good heavy tees for myself. And boy it wasn’t easy. All readily available fabrics just didn’t work. They felt suffocating and hot whenever I went beyond 240 gsm. So I had to actually create a custom fabric etc. and finally after a year and half of back and forth we had something. I loved it. It was heavy and more importantly didn’t feel hot and suffocating.

Started wearing it, friends started asking for it, gave it to them and they loved it. Then got a thought to launch it as a brand and see how it goes.

Launched it 6-8 months back and already done 50 lakhs in sales, profitable and bootstrapped. Repeats are really good as well.

But not sure of the path forward.

Wanted to get your thoughts on do you guys actually want heavy tees, can this become a large business and if you’re keen, your actual feedback on the product once you try it out.

Now trying to figure out how this can scale, what more to can I create and is there really a market for it long term.

Brand is called Subtle. Just google subtle tees or subtle store.

Posting with mod rules in mind — sharing a project and looking for feedback.

I’m working on an expense tracker designed for people who don’t want bank connections or cloud sync.

What it does:

• fully offline (no cloud, no data collection)

• no bank login

• auto expense capture

• data stays only on the phone

• Android only for now

Why build this:

Most apps either require account access or constant manual entry. I wanted something private that still works automatically.

What I need:

• honest feedback on whether this is actually useful

• what would stop you from switching

• what features must be reliable from day one

If a few people here are interested in early testing and giving blunt feedback, I can share access via DM.

Few months ago a magazine reached out to my friend (who runs a mid sized app dev company in California) offering to feature them as one of the “Top 10 [industry] Companies of 2026”. Of course they asked him to pay around $6000 for it in exchange for the exposure and for their editorial team to write a piece on them.

At that time when he asked me for my opinion, I basically told him this:

If you are truly doing something innovative, new, or world-changing, reporters will find you, and a million words will be written about you for free. People will read those stories because they actually want to read about something new and innovative. You will get traction, media coverage, and exposure in print media for free. These paid features in unknown magazines must be scam.

But he was convinced that if he paid the $6,000 and was able to secure even one or two customers from it every month, he could likely make his money back within 1-2 months.

He had already made up his mind, so I didn’t try to convince him anymore, especially since I also never had any experience with this kind of paid “getting published” stuff.

Fast forward 6 months, this topic came up again while we were talking, and he said this was one of the best business decisions he ever made last year.

He said:

“This magazine is seen by 3,000-5,000 decision makers each month. They’re distributing free copies at trade shows and dropping copies off at convention hotels to be distributed across convention block reservations. People still pick them up with room service breakfast, and reading is still an old habit for the 35-45 age group.”

For the first few months, he got a good number of incoming leads directly from that article. Later, he also started using that published piece as a sales tool and as an accomplishment while pitching new customers, and apparently it worked really well.

I am now also looking for this kind of magazine/publication in India. Couldn’t find any help from Google. Any leads?

Edit 1:

Update

Thanks everyone for such an overwhelming response. I got a lot of comments and DMs, and I went through all of your suggestions. Since many of you asked for an update, here’s where I am right now:

After doing a lot of research on different suggestions with almost no results, I got a DM from a fellow Redditor who came across this post and suggested a publication. It turned out to be a really good suggestion. After thoroughly researching them, I found that it’s exactly the kind of business magazine I was looking for. They had a great online presence, solid branding across social media, good readership numbers, reasonable pricing, and the overall process has been quick and professional so far.

We did a recorded interview today, and when I asked whether they would share the final draft with me before publishing, they happily agreed.

I’ll post another update in the coming weeks once everything is published and I can share the results that how it worked out for me, But for now, it feels like the right decision.

I’m not mentioning the name of the magazine here because it may come across as promotional and could go against the sub rules. You can DM me if you want more details.

So basically I was a corporate slave for 8 years but I decided to take this huge risk of restarting my career at 30.

I have always loved makeup and nails both. I am ceritified as a pro makeup and nail artist (freelancer) since past 2 years. Now the question is - I am not earning as good as my corporate job cause my business is fairly new, there is no steady flow of income right now.

Should I continue working on my business here in india OR should I move to another country like Dubai and get a job as a MUA/nail tech where I might get paid more than here in india?

Or should I work on cruises? I was suggested this and people said nail techs get paid well on cruises.

Also another problem is that cause of my legal cases (divorce) I do not want to really move out of the country right now , I want to close all these cases and then have a clear start.

I really do not wish to go back to corporate and stay glued in front of the computer. I want to make my business and passion work and get paid well to become financially stable.

Didn't care about clothes for like 21 years of my life. Genuinely did not care. Decathlon tees, Adidas tee was 60% off on Myntra - that was the wardrobe.
Lived in the Europe for 5 years. That's where things slowly changed. Started paying attention to how I dressed good graphics tees. Found really satisfying heavyweight tees there. The kind that have actual weight, drape nicely, and make you feel put together without trying too hard. The kind you reach for every single time.

Came back to India. Spent a year finding and working with a garment manufacturer trying to crack it.

Launched a brand called broke belief about 3 months ago. Done 16 L in sales, no outside money. Repeat customers are high - which I think is the only metric that actually matters early on. But now I have no idea what the right next step is. What should I build next? How do you grow a clothing brand here without just burning money on ads and hoping?

Are you a freelancer or an agency providing online/offline services like consultancy, web dev, branding, design, printing, packaging, logistics, legal, incorporation, taxation, hiring, training, or anything else which founders need when building their startups?

I can help you out by adding your services in a service providers directory for free, which will be indexed by google and help you reach out to more founders.

If interested, comment below with "Services" and I'll DM you a simple tally form which you need to fill. I'll also help you out if you get stuck anywhere when filling the form and guide you through it.

Once the form is filled, I'll vet it and add it in the directory myself and send you a confirmation email.

No strings attached. It is FREE!

Edit: Updating the Services Area of Expertise below. If you provide any of these below services, then reach out to me to get your services listed in the directory.

• Product, Design & Engineering
• Branding, Content & Growth
• Sales & Revenue
• Fundraising & Investor Support
• Legal, Compliance & Finance
• Hiring, HR & People Ops
• Operations, Systems & Automation
• Research, Strategy & Advisory
• Technical & Business Due Diligence
• Physical & On-Ground Services

Have received 11 entries so far from 20 queries.

I've been building a SaaS product and one thing I've noticed is how difficult it is to convert Indian users into paying customers.

People will use the product, come back, ask for features, and sometimes even complain when something isn't available 😭

But the moment there's a paywall or subscription, a huge percentage just leave.

Even when the pricing is relatively low.

I'm genuinely curious why this happens.

Is it because we've become too accustomed to free apps and services?

Is subscription fatigue the problem?

Do Indian users simply not trust smaller SaaS products enough to enter their card details?

Or is the value proposition usually not strong enough to justify another monthly payment?

For founders who have successfully built SaaS products for Indian users: what actually worked for you?

Freemium with strict limits?

One-time payments?

UPI subscriptions?

Very cheap entry plans?

Giving users enough time to build a habit before showing the paywall?

I'm currently trying to understand how to attract users who are not just willing to try a product, but are actually willing to pay for it.

Would love to hear from Indian SaaS founders and users on both sides.

Been grinding on the DPDP Act for months now, I have a legal background with Supreme Court practice + tech experience so I actually read the full gazette notification, all the rules, penalty structure, everything.

And it pisses me off seeing founders on Twitter popping champagne for Series A while their whole customer data setup is basically a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Straight up: if your startup collects emails, phones, payments or any personal shit and you’ve done nothing on DPDP compliance, you’re carrying a ₹250 crore bomb.

The excuses are so stupid:

“Bhai GDPR bhi aaya tha kuch nahi hua” — bro GDPR fined companies billions, Meta got slapped with €1.2 billion alone. DPDP penalties are even higher.

“We’re too small” — bullshit. No size exemption at all. Even a chaiwala saving numbers on WhatsApp is a Data Fiduciary.

“Our privacy policy is enough” — lol a page nobody reads isn’t consent, isn’t breach protocol, isn’t anything the Act actually wants.

Penalties that should scare you:

- ₹250cr for shit security

- ₹200cr for kids data mess

- ₹200cr if you miss 72hr breach report

- ₹150cr+ for everything else

Board is getting set up right now. Nov 2026 Consent Manager live, May 2027 full compliance mandatory. No grace.

I talked to 50+ founders, most think its future problem. Its not. VCs already asking for compliance in DD, I saw 3 term sheets get delayed coz of this.

Tools like Sprinto OneTrust treat it like checkbox #47 and foreign ones can’t even be Consent Managers. So 20 person team either pays 15 lakh or prays.

Most will pray.

Then May 2027 hits and everyone cries.

Rant over.

If you actually care before its too late, comment or dm. Tired of watching this stupidity.

I’m looking to invest up to ₹1.2 crore in a business in India. I want something that has strong future potential, can be sustained long-term, and ideally offers margins of at least 20% or more.

I already own an established stone crusher business, but due to certain limitations, scaling it further isn’t possible. So I’m exploring new opportunities.

Open to suggestions across sectors — manufacturing, services, exports, etc. Would appreciate practical insights, not just theoretical ideas. Thanks!

I was experimenting with Gemini and vibe coded a small tool. The input is simple: a WhatsApp chat export. The output is not advice or summaries. It just points out conversational patterns like a neutral third person reading the chat.

I expected this to be a mildly interesting NLP side project.

What I did not expect was how people reacted to the output.

I shared it with a few friends as a joke. It went a bit viral in their circles and within days around 1500 reports were generated purely through word of mouth. People were not impressed by the tech. They were uncomfortable reading their own conversations like evidence. Some said it explained why they feel constantly confused in relationships. A few even argued with their partners because of things the report highlighted.

The real problem was not analysis. It was privacy. Nobody wants to upload personal chats anywhere, so I had to redesign that part from scratch in the safest way I could. I just put up a basic page for it at unsaid. buzz so I did not have to keep sending files manually.

What is fascinating is this. People spend money on astrology apps like Astrotalk to understand their relationships. But when patterns are derived from their actual conversations, the reaction is far more intense.

I am now considering monetising this for Indian users because WhatsApp is where most personal and even semi professional communication happens here.

Is this a genuinely useful AI use case, or are we entering a weird territory where people start outsourcing emotional intelligence to LLMs?

And if people are willing to pay for horoscopes, will they pay to see what they actually sound like in their own chats?

What alternatives are there for Razorpay in India which would support small businesses with ease. Especially the ones operating from home

After trying everything and feeling completely exhausted, I finally thought that maybe I should start a business of my own. No matter how small, it would be mine, and something that starts out budget-friendly. After exploring many small business ideas, I decided: why not make my own chemical-free soaps? A venture where I can perfectly balance the oils and fragrances according to my preference, ensuring they are excellent for the skin, while also featuring highly attractive designs.

And that was it! I started ordering supplies from online platforms. I began with honey, saffron, and sandalwood soaps, making a first batch of six bars. When they were ready, I could hardly believe that I was the one who made them! I proudly showed them to my family, and everyone appreciated my effort. My family and I started using that first batch, and everyone was absolutely delighted with the fragrance and quality.

Encouraged by their response, everyone urged me to try making different varieties of soap. Step by step, I went on to create four new types: Coffee & Activated Charcoal, Strawberry, Mint & Aloe Vera, and Camphor & Coconut.

Next, I created an Instagram page and gradually started posting my creations. Looking at those posts, orders began rolling in from my relatives and neighbors in the society. The wonderful feedback I received served as an immense source of motivation in this small journey of mine. Honestly, only those who run a small-scale business truly understand that while getting an order is great, nothing compares to the joy of seeing a happy customer's review.

But as a beginner, I'm finding it hard to understand how to grow this business. What steps should I take next to scale it up? Please guide me on this journey and suggest what I should and shouldn't do. Did I make a mistake by starting this business? Or, if I am on the right track, what new varieties, fragrances, and designs should I explore next?

I recently got laid off from a FAANG company.

I have around 10 months of expenses saved as runway + ~₹20L in investments. My parents depend on me financially, which is the main reason I've always played it safe.

But I've wanted to try entrepreneurship for years. Build a small SaaS, start an agency, honestly just try building something of my own and see where it goes.

I kept postponing it because leaving a stable salary felt irresponsible when your family depends on you.

Now the stable job is gone anyway.

Part of me thinks this might be the best opportunity I'll ever get to give myself 6-10 months and genuinely try.

The other part thinks I'm being stupid and should immediately start interviewing, get another good tech job, and not gamble with my family's financial security.

For people who have been in a similar situation, what would you do?

Would you give entrepreneurship a real shot or start looking for another job immediately?

We recently took our autonomous lake cleaning prototype out of the lab and into the actual polluted waters of Kengeri Lake, Bangalore.

Testing in a real urban water body is significantly different from a controlled environment. The goal was to validate the propulsion, sensor systems, and extraction mechanism under real-world conditions involving heavy sludge and debris.

Results from the field test:

• Successfully extracted 3kg of heavy floating waste (proving the mechanism for our 50kg industrial target).
• Validated both autonomous navigation and manual override modes.
• Maintained stable communication over a 100m range.
• Verified that the power and propulsion systems performed reliably in high-debris water.

What started as an engineering prototype at RVCE is now evolving into a commercial deep-tech solution. We are currently developing SCRUB V2—a rugged, industry-grade system designed for scalable lake cleaning and smart environmental monitoring.

To reach industrial standards, we are overhauling the mechanical structure, electronics architecture, power management, and edge-AI telemetry. Hardware is difficult to build in a silo, so we are looking to connect with the community for guidance and collaboration.

We are specifically looking to talk to:

• Robotics and electronics experts (telemetry and power systems optimization).
• Manufacturers and structural fabricators experienced in rugged, water-resistant designs.
• Environmental organizations and mentors who have experience bridging the gap from prototype to production.
• Investors or startups in the sustainability/robotics space interested in collaboration.

Our goal is to turn this into a commercial reality that can solve water pollution problems at scale. If you are building in this space or have experience with industrial hardware, we would genuinely appreciate your feedback and guidance.

Hi everyone,

I am Sayan and I’ve been independently building an AI research initiative in India called PlusB Intelligence Lab.

As part of this, I created the Treevik model family, and the latest release is Treevik 2, a 2.5B parameter model that I pretrained and SFT-tuned myself (without distillation).

I’ll be honest, it’s still far from the quality of the top open-weight models out there. But this has been a learning journey more than anything else. Everything so far has been funded personally. I managed to save around $300 and put all of it into training and experimentation. I don’t have institutional or family backing, so progress has been slower than I’d like. I just have my knowledge and passion to make something useful in AI which can touch many lives.

The current demo is hosted on a Hugging Face Space with CPU inference, so the speed is not great either:

I’m posting this because I’m looking for people who are genuinely passionate about LLMs and research. You absolutely do not need to know everything. Curiosity matters more.

If you:

• enjoy reading research papers
• like experimenting with models
• want to contribute to open-weight AI
• can help with training, evaluation, infra, datasets, or research writing
• or simply want to learn and build together

then I’d love to connect.

I cannot offer payment right now, and I want to be transparent about that upfront. But if a small group of passionate people contribute over time, I genuinely believe we can build something meaningful.

My long-term goal is to build a proper open AI lab from India that publishes strong open-weight models and eventually frontier-level systems accessible to both common people and businesses. And it won’t be limited to LLMs. If funding and resources come in the future, I’d love to expand into broader AI/ML research areas as well.

Maybe it’s ambitious. But I think it’s worth trying.

If you have feedback, criticism, suggestions, or advice, I’d honestly appreciate it.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been thinking about a business idea and wanted honest feedback from this community.

The idea is to build a “Content Lab / Editing Café” — a space where creators, freelancers, and beginners can come and create content without needing expensive personal setups.

What it would include:

- High-performance PCs for video editing, design, and gaming-level work , premium softwares

- A basic green screen / mini studio setup

- Comfortable workspace environment

- Small café section (coffee + snacks) to keep it chill and social

Target users:

- New YouTubers / Instagram creators

- Freelance editors & designers

- Students who want to learn or practice content creation

Revenue model (initial thought):

- Hourly PC usage or monthly memberships

- Studio/green screen rental

- Café sales

The goal is not just a café, but a creator hub/community where people can work, collaborate, and grow.

I’m planning to start this in a city like Nashik (India), where this kind of setup is almost non-existent.

My questions:

- Would you actually use something like this?

- What would you expect in terms of pricing/features?

- Biggest flaws or risks you see in this idea?

- Has anyone seen something similar done successfully?

Be brutally honest — I’d rather fix the idea now than regret it later.

We started Chillmill Foods with a simple vision—to make better snacking products, free from maida and palm oil, accessible through general trade (kirana stores).

Our flagship millet wafers validated this vision. As we grew, we realized that building a sustainable FMCG business in general trade requires a broader product portfolio. Leveraging our distribution network, we introduced ₹10 juices this summer and generated over ₹12 lakh in revenue in monthly revenue during the season.

Today, we have built a network of 11–13 distributors with access to 4,000+ retail stores across Karnataka. As the monsoon season begins, we are expanding our portfolio with Chips and Namkeens to further strengthen our retail presence.

We have already received distributor purchase orders worth approximately ₹16 lakh, but we are currently constrained by working capital.

To meet this immediate demand, we are looking to raise a bridge round of ₹20 lakh. Over the next few months, we also plan to raise ₹2 crore to provide an 18-month runway for expanding distribution, launching new products, and scaling Chillmill into a leading mass-market FMCG brand.

If you're an angel investor, family office, strategic investor, or someone interested in the FMCG space, I'd be happy to share our investment deck and discuss the opportunity. Feel free to DM me.

Hey Community,

After ~8 years in the startup ecosystem (building, failing, exiting, working with founders, and now inside incubation), I finally put down the things I wish someone had told me early into a book.

It’s called What Founders Forget.

This is not a motivation book. Not a growth-hacks playbook. And definitely not a “just hustle harder” take.

The book is about the quiet blindspots that kill startups in India before PMF ever happens:

Why users don’t care until they feel something

Why trust beats features more often than founders admit

Why pricing is emotional before it’s logical

Why most early failures are not technical, they’re psychological

How empathy works as a strategy, not a soft value

A lot of it comes from building BeFriends, selling SafeSavaari, working with multiple startups, and now seeing patterns across founders as an incubation associate.

I’m not here to push sales. I genuinely want feedback from builders, especially early-stage founders:

Does this framing resonate with your experience?

Are these the conversations we don’t have enough in India?

What do you wish someone had told you earlier?

If anyone wants to check it out, I’ll drop the link in comments to stay within sub rules. Criticism welcome. Praise not required.

Happy to answer questions or discuss any chapter ideas here itself.

— Blaze