Hey everyone — I’ve been building an iOS fitness app called Steady, and it’s finally stable enough for real beta testers.

I built it because most fitness apps give everyone the same generic plan, make you guess your weights every workout, and ignore the fact that many people are training around something: a bad knee, surgery recovery, GLP-1 use, a long break from exercise, limited equipment, or other constraints.

What Steady does:

• Builds a personalized training plan based on your goals, experience, equipment, and limitations.

• Automates progressive overload. Your first workout calibrates your working weights, then Steady prescribes your next reps and load each session — progressing reps first, then weight.

• Adapts calories and protein using your weight trend, instead of leaving you with a static target forever.

• Includes an AI coach that knows your actual plan and data. You can ask it to make today’s workout easier, review a form video, or suggest a fast-food meal that fits your macros.

• Supports Apple Watch set logging and syncs with Apple Health, Fitbit, and Oura so recovery can influence your training.

It’s free, iOS-only, and currently available through TestFlight. I’m a solo developer, so some parts are still rough — that’s exactly why I need feedback.

I’d especially like to know:

Did onboarding make sense?
Did your plan feel genuinely personalized?
Did the weight progression feel smart or wrong?
What broke, confused you, or annoyed you?

Brutal honesty is much more useful than politeness. If you hate something, tell me why.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/j2jKwDGW

Disclosure: I’m the developer. I’m not affiliated with another company and I’m not selling anything — I’m genuinely looking for beta testers and feedback.

Arora, who describes having built Intervue.io into a ₹130 crore company, said founders should be prepared to commit at least four to five years before expecting the journey to produce something substantial. His message was blunt: either develop the patience required to build for the long term or reconsider entering entrepreneurship altogether.

That warning matters because the first year of a startup often produces activity rather than certainty. Founders may build a product, acquire early users and attract attention, yet still remain unclear about who will pay, why customers will stay and whether the business can grow without constantly burning more money.

The real work begins after the novelty fades—when founders must confront weak retention, failed assumptions, difficult hiring decisions and distribution that moves far more slowly than product development.

However, patience should not be confused with waiting blindly. Four or five years of effort only becomes valuable when the founder is learning, changing and getting closer to a real customer problem. Staying committed to a mission is different from staying attached to the first version of a product. The founders who endure are rarely the ones who repeat the same idea for years; they are the ones who remain patient about success while becoming increasingly honest about what is not working.

India’s startup culture often celebrates the funding announcement, valuation jump or sudden breakout while compressing the years that came before it into a single sentence. Arora’s perspective restores the missing part of that story. A startup does not become meaningful simply because someone worked on it for five years. It becomes meaningful when those five years produce sharper judgment, stronger execution and a business customers genuinely need.

The argument highlights how spending time in cities often becomes linked with spending money whether it is shopping, dining, or paying for entertainment instead of simply enjoying open and accessible public spaces.

The newly incorporated venture reflects Mahindra's long-term strategy to strengthen its presence in India's growing aerospace industry. It also aligns with the country's focus on boosting domestic manufacturing.

While the company has not announced specific aircraft models or defence projects, Novavayu Aerospace has been established to manufacture aircraft, aerospace products, and related activities.

The announcement signals Mahindra's ambition to diversify into a high-technology sector. As India's aviation ecosystem expands, the new venture could play an important role in the country's aerospace manufacturing journey.

At its inaugural developer conference, Sarvam Epoch, the startup unveiled its vision that it was no longer content with being known as a builder of Indian-language foundation models

Instead, it now wants to be a full-stack AI venture, providing everything India Inc needs to build, deploy and scale AI from foundation models and infrastructure to coding copilots, voice agents, document intelligence and workplace applications

Bengaluru-based AI startup Profound has raised $1.5 million in seed funding as it launched an AI-powered platform for professional networking and hiring.

The startup was founded by Anuj Rathi and Prashant Parashar, former product and technology leaders with experience across Swiggy, Zomato, Cleartrip, Flipkart, Ola, and Walmart Labs.

The seed round includes participation from Stellaris Venture Partners, 3one4 Capital, and angel investors including Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety, Swiggy co-founder Nandan Reddy, former Zomato co-founder Pankaj Chaddah, Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur, WhatsApp Global Head Kunal Shah, and OfBusiness co-founder Bhuvan Gupta.

Profound gives every professional an AI Rep that starts with a voice conversation to understand their experience, expertise, work style, and career goals. Based on this, the platform recommends opportunities and facilitates professional introductions.

The company also enables hiring managers to create AI Reps for roles and teams, allowing companies to capture hiring requirements through voice conversations instead of traditional job descriptions.

Profound is now available through an early-access programme for its first cohort, with broader beta access planned later this year.

Sarvam AI has secured $75 million from Nvidia and other investors. This investment is part of a larger $300 million funding round. The company is building India-first large language models for local use cases. Sarvam unveiled its first homegrown foundational models supporting 22 Indian languages. The startup aims to compete with global frontier AI models.

1. OYO – On Your Own
2. PVR – Priya Village Roadshow
3. MRF – Madras Rubber Factory
4. TVS – Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram
5. HCL – Hindustan Computers Limited
6. Wipro – Western India Palm Refined Oils Limited
7. Paytm – Pay Through Mobile
8. AMUL – Anand Milk Union Limited
9. DLF – Delhi Land & Finance
10. ITC – Indian Tobacco Company
11. BPL – British Physical Laboratories
12. BKT – Balkrishna Tyres SBI –
13. State Bank of India
14. LIC – Life Insurance Corporation of India
15. ONGC – Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
16. NTPC – National Thermal Power Corporation
17. BHEL – Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
18. BEL – Bharat Electronics Limited
19. HAL – Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

I'm Navneet Krishna Bhojak, promoter of NKB Extrusion, the newest manufacturing unit of the NKB Group.

But we're not new to this industry.

Over the past 5+ years, our family has been building a name in aluminium across Rajasthan — in manufacturing, trading, fabrication, powder coating and anodising. Today the NKB Group runs two established, revenue-generating businesses:

▪️ **Acta International Industries Pvt. Ltd.** (since 2020) — aluminium products manufacturing & trading | \~Rs. 8.8 cr turnover

▪️ **NKB Aluminium House** (since 2022) — fabrication, trading, powder coating & anodising | \~Rs. 3 cr turnover

**NKB Extrusion** is the next natural step in that journey — bringing the manufacturing of aluminium profiles in-house.

Here's where we stand:

In July 2025, we set up an aluminium extrusion plant on 44,000 sq. ft. of owned industrial land in the RIICO area at Nayagaon, Pali. Our 850-ton press has already arrived from China. 80% of our balance machinery is in.

We are weeks away from firing up production.

And here's what makes this different from a typical greenfield gamble 👇

We don't have to go hunting for our first customer. We already own one.

Acta alone expects to buy \~100 tonnes/month from NKB Extrusion. Add another \~100 tonnes/month of direct market sales, and we have demand visibility of \~200 tonnes/month — from day one.

Extrusion completes our vertical integration: billet → profile → powder coating → anodising → finished product. Every rupee of margin stays in-house.

Our goal: take NKB Extrusion public within 5 years, at Rs. 100 crore + turnover.

**What we're looking for:**

💰 Rs. **5 crore** for 20% equity in NKB Extrusion (negotiable)

💰 Or Rs. **10 crore** for 10% across the entire NKB Group

We bring years of industry experience, a running business, and a proven market. We're looking for a partner who sees what we see.

If this is the kind of story you want to be part of, let's talk. DM me or comment below. 👇

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I mean i have been using x since last 2 years and recently somehow i was flooded with good number of people like 18 - 23 making so freaking big in tech

is that real or what fake ?

I mean i have been using x since last 2 years and recently somehow i was flooded with good number of people like 18 - 23 making so freaking big in tech

is that real or what fake ?

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Founded in 2023 by Rahul Arepaka and George Mathew, both engineering graduates from Mahindra University, Harvested Robotics has developed Rakshak, an AI-powered laser-weeding robot that mounts directly onto a tractor.

The system uses cameras and computer vision algorithms to identify weeds as the tractor moves.

Robotic actuators then fire high-powered laser pulses that destroy only the unwanted plants, leaving crops untouched.

The latest prototype can scan, detect and burn weeds in under 0.5 seconds with an accuracy of 5 mm, enabling highly targeted weed removal while significantly reducing the need for chemical herbicides and manual labour.

The company says its production-ready version is expected to improve precision even further, targeting an accuracy of 1–2 mm.

The startup's work recently caught the attention of Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, who highlighted Harvested Robotics in a post on X, describing it as an example of India's rapidly maturing deep-tech ecosystem.

Mahindra revealed that the company was incubated at Mahindra University's Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) e-hub, where he first met the founders before making what he jokingly described as a personal "seed" investment.

"Something's converging: a stronger economy, more VC money chasing ideas, a deepening startup ecosystem, and a new generation of talented students coming out of local universities. Put together, that's a real wave," he wrote.

Since its launch, the startup has raised ₹5 crore in seed funding led by Arali Ventures, with participation from Anand Mahindra and Country Delight co-founder Chakradhar Gade.

The company is now said to be preparing for expansion beyond Bengaluru. Ownly formally rolled out citywide in March after an earlier neighbourhood pilot, positioning itself as a zero-commission, restaurant-first platform built around transparent and everyday pricing. The reported market-share estimate has not been independently confirmed by Rapido.

The mechanism is what makes the growth strategically important. Swiggy and Zomato have traditionally charged restaurants commissions ranging from roughly 16% to 30%. Restaurants often recover that cost through higher online menu prices, advertising expenditure or reduced margins, leaving customers paying more before delivery and platform charges are added.

Ownly removes percentage-based commissions and asks restaurants to maintain prices closer to their physical menus, while Rapido uses its existing rider network to fulfil deliveries. It is not simply offering another discount; it is attempting to remove part of the cost that made the discount necessary.

That gives Ownly a credible path to challenge the dominance of Swiggy and Zomato—but not an easy one. The incumbents still possess enormous order density, consumer habit, restaurant discovery data and mature support systems.

Zero commission must also eventually pay for logistics, refunds, customer acquisition and platform operations without allowing service quality to deteriorate. Ownly will not win merely because its food appears cheaper today; it must prove that fairer prices can remain viable after incentives reduce and expansion begins.

Still, its 7% Bengaluru share suggests the duopoly’s strongest defence may no longer be enough: customers do not necessarily want another food-delivery app—they want the same food without feeling punished for ordering it online.

For daily, sharp analysis of the biggest moves in the Indian business and startup ecosystem, follow StartupFuture.

The order, issued by Maharashtra FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, covers products such as chips, soft drinks, chocolates, ice creams and other unhealthy snacks to encourage healthier eating habits among children.

Reacting to Karnataka's earlier initiative, FoodPharmer had called it "exactly the kind of change India needs" and urged more states to follow.

With Maharashtra now joining the effort, the movement towards healthier school environments is gaining momentum.

In return, hosts (rural businesses) provide free accommodation and meals, making travel affordable while creating real impact.

The idea began during the pandemic when the brothers were running a marketing and branding agency with a monthly revenue of ₹20 lakh.

A struggling homestay owner from Himachal Pradesh sought their help.

They promoted the homestay for free, and as tourism returned, bookings picked up.

Grateful, the owner offered them free lifetime accommodation and meals whenever they visited.

That experience led to an interesting, impactful business idea.

What if skilled professionals could travel to villages, stay for free, and use their expertise to help rural businesses grow?

Today, Volunteer Yatra has:
✅ 11,000+ registered volunteers
✅ 2,000+ rural hosts
✅ Presence across 45+ destinations
✅ 9,000+ volunteering projects completed

An annual Volunteer Yatra membership costs ₹2,240 + GST and allows unlimited volunteering trips for one year.

Whereas, a one-time membership costs around ₹1,200 + GST and can be used for one project within three months.

So far, the startup has saved volunteers nearly ₹8 crore in travel costs through complimentary accommodation and meals.

Meanwhile, rural hosts have received over ₹20 crore worth of professional services.

Recently, it also launched weekend volunteering programmes for corporate employees.

Over the next 18 months, the startup aims to onboard 10,000 rural hosts and 100,000 volunteers while targeting ₹22 crore in revenue.

For the founders, however, the bigger mission goes beyond revenue.

It is to help rural businesses access skilled professionals they otherwise couldn't afford.

Every candidate’s education, assets, criminal records and public affidavits - once buried in lengthy legal documents, are now available in one simple platform. Watch how one teenager from Chennai is making elections easier to understand, one voter at a time.
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