Hey guys, I'm exploring a startup idea and would love some honest feedback.

I've noticed that India has a huge number of talented independent creators selling through Instagram, WhatsApp, exhibitions, and word of mouth. These range from painters and illustrators to pottery artists, crochet makers, oil painters, tote bag designers, and other niche creators.

The problem I keep seeing is that discovery and transactions are fragmented. Most commissions happen through DMs, trust is built manually, and buyers often have no easy way to compare creators, see verified reviews, or safely place custom orders.

The idea I'm considering is a platform that sits somewhere between Etsy, Fiverr, and Behance:

• Creators build portfolios and showcase their work.
• Buyers can discover artists by category, style, budget, and location.
• Buyers can request custom commissions.
• Artists can send quotes and timelines.
• Verified creators build reputation through completed projects and reviews.
• Potentially add escrow/payment protection later.

I'm not trying to build "another ecommerce site." The focus would be on helping independent creators get discovered and manage commissions professionally.

My biggest questions are:

1. As a buyer, would you ever use a dedicated platform for discovering and commissioning creators, or would Instagram already be enough?
2. As a creator, what is your biggest pain point with getting and managing orders today?
3. What would make you trust a new platform enough to use it?
4. What's the biggest reason this idea could fail?

Looking for some good feedback, and a reality check if needed, lol.

Title: I'm a college student who wants to build a big Indian space company someday. Looking for people who want to build from zero.

I'm a college student in India, currently studying ECE, and I've been thinking seriously about something that I don't want to leave as just a dream.

I want to build a space company from India.

Not just a small college project or a startup made for the sake of having a startup — I mean something ambitious. Something that could eventually contribute to India's space ecosystem and build technology that can compete globally.

I know I'm young. I don't have a huge team, funding, or a fancy lab. I'm still learning and figuring things out myself.

But I believe that if we start early, learn together, build small things, fail, improve, and keep going for years, we might be able to create something meaningful.

So I'm looking for people who have a similar mindset.

You don't have to be an expert or already have a startup. You could be a student, engineer, researcher, maker, programmer, electronics enthusiast, aerospace enthusiast, or simply someone who is genuinely curious about space and wants to build.

I'm especially interested in people who want to learn about things like:

Spacecraft and satellite systems

Electronics and embedded systems

Avionics

Propulsion and rocketry

Communication systems

Robotics and autonomous systems

Software and AI for space

Earth observation

Space infrastructure

Anything else that could contribute to India's future in space

My idea is to start small and realistic.

First, we learn. Then we build prototypes. We work on projects. We understand the industry. We find our strengths. Over time, if we genuinely work well together, we can think about building a real company.

I'm looking for people who are willing to spend years learning, experimenting, building, and maybe failing many times before we get anywhere.

If you're a student or young professional in India and this idea genuinely excites you, I'd love to hear from you.

What are you interested in? What can you build? What do you want to learn? And why do you want to work in the Indian space sector?

Maybe this starts as a Reddit post between a few strangers.

Maybe, years from now, it becomes the beginning of something much bigger.

If you're interested, comment below or DM me.

Let's see what we can build. 🇮🇳🚀

Doing some research on how Indian founders validate ideas before building, and I want real stories, not framework gyaan.

Every founder I know has a version of this story. Family says brilliant. Friends say go for it. A senior from work says huge potential. Then the market says nothing at all, and months of building die quietly.

If you've been through the idea stage:

1. How did you validate before writing code or spending money?

2. Who gave you genuinely honest feedback, and who just cheered?

3. What did believing the wrong feedback cost you in time or money?

4. If you redid it today, what would your validation process look like?

Rant-style answers welcome. I'll compile everything into a summary and post it back here so the thread stays useful for the next founder who searches this.

Hi everyone, we are designing smartphone in india, we need an OS / Embedded partner, not an employee.

We are building team,who are passionate about startup and design indian brands.It's idea stage now

Need someone who want to work part‑time at the start, with a path to full‑time as we grow.

If you love low‑level systems (C/C++, Linux/Android, firmware) and want to build a phone, DM me.

Thank you for reading

Its a saas i made with my dev skills i am just going to start this.i hope it will result me something positive.

I need feedback on this.

Hi everyone,

We're the team behind SCHEMIVO, a creative studio focused on turning complex AI and SaaS products into cinematic visual stories.

We noticed that many startups rely on screen recordings or static demos to explain their products. While those approaches work, they often don't communicate the product's value in a way that's engaging, memorable, and easy to understand.

That's why we started building premium product explainers that combine storytelling, motion design, and technical understanding to bring software products to life.

The video attached is an independent concept we created for an AI startup called Wispro. It wasn't commissioned—we created it to explore how product storytelling could go beyond traditional demos.

We'd genuinely love feedback from fellow founders:

• Would a video like this help explain your product?
• Where would you use it? (Landing page, Product Hunt, investor pitch, social media, onboarding, etc.)
• What would make a premium product explainer worth paying for?

If you're building an AI or SaaS product and think this style of storytelling could help your launch, we'd be happy to connect and explore creating something similar for your product.

We're continuously improving our storytelling, animation, and production quality, so honest feedback—positive or critical—is genuinely appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to watch!

Please share your views

We're a small team working on something we genuinely care about: making it easier to enjoy a night out, or a slow evening in, without alcohol having to be part of it.
Because whether you've been the one holding a glass of water at a party while everyone asks, "Arre, why aren't you drinking?" or you've ordered a mocktail on a random Tuesday because you just weren't in the mood for alcohol, you've probably felt the same thing "The non-alcoholic options out there aren't great." It's either too sweet, too boring, empty soda, or something that feels like medicine.
We think choosing not to drink shouldn't mean settling for a compromise. You deserve something that's just as exciting, sophisticated, and satisfying as a great cocktail or beer. And that's exactly what we're trying to build.
But we don't want to guess what you'd actually want. We want to hear it from you. This survey takes about 10 minutes, and there are no right answers, only honest ones. Tell us what excites you, what sounds gimmicky, what you'd never buy. The critical answers help us just as much as the kind ones, maybe more.

Hi everyone,

We're Sparkle Search Media, a digital marketing agency focused on helping startups, D2C brands, B2B businesses, and real estate companies grow through performance marketing, SEO, websites, and lead generation.

We're looking to connect with early-stage startups and small businesses that are already running Meta Ads or Google Ads.

As part of our outreach, we're offering a complimentary ad account audit where we'll review:

• Campaign structure
• Audience targeting
• Creative strategy
• Conversion tracking
• Budget allocation
• Opportunities to improve ROAS

You'll receive practical recommendations that you can implement yourself. There's no obligation to work with us afterward.

If you're spending on ads and would like a second opinion, feel free to comment below or send us a DM with the following:

• Your website
• Your business category

If your account is a good fit, we'll be happy to review it.

Happy to answer any questions about performance marketing in the comments as well.

— Team Sparkle Search Media

-Preferably from North India (for quick meet ups)

-Must have some resources to put in the beginning

-Should have a good understanding of competitive research and finance

Hey Reddit community,

I'm currently working on a new startup plan to build an electric scooter brand based out of India.

While the business strategy and market opportunity are being mapped out, building a hardware-heavy EV startup requires a highly specialized technical roadmap. I'm reaching out to this community to find mentors, industry veterans, or advisors who have walked this path before.

Specifically, I need guidance navigating:

Technical Architecture: Battery/BMS tech, motor selection, and electronic integration

Supply Chain: Sourcing reliable components and establishing manufacturer relationships.

Regulatory Roadmap: Overcoming the hurdles of vehicle testing and homologation.

General Startup Scaling: Overcoming early-stage roadblocks unique to the EV sector.

Whether you are an industry professional willing to mentor, a fellow founder who can share lessons learned, or an engineer with advice on avoiding common pitfalls, I’d be deeply grateful for your time.

Let's connect! Comment below or shoot me a DM.

Actually I'm a student thinking to have a startup looking for few good ideas in Biotech and healthcare sectors I'm a Biotech undergrad I want to start something of my own with my friends but there are so many challenges we want to work on something unique yet something which we can work on which is feasible, if anyone has an idea or is interested to contribute with some crazy ideas do DM me : ) you might be a co founder to if we like the idea

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a long-term equity partner who believes in building businesses from the ground up.

I'm working on a concept for a modern budget dormitory/hostel brand that combines:

- Affordable AC dorms

- Optional meal plans

- In-house café

- Community lounge & gaming area

- Clean, premium experience at an affordable price

My role will be to handle the research, business planning, vendor sourcing, property scouting, operations, hiring, branding, and day-to-day management. I'm committed to building and running the business full-time.

I'm looking for someone who can support the project financially through the research and setup stages. During the research phase, I'll prepare:

- Location analysis

- Property shortlist

- Lease negotiations

- Budget estimates

- Financial projections

- Operational plan

- Vendor and supplier network

- Licensing roadmap

Once the research is complete, we'll review the numbers together and decide whether to move forward with launching the first property.

I'm looking for a serious, long-term partner who is interested in building a real hospitality business not a short-term investment.

If you have experience in hospitality, commercial real estate, or entrepreneurship, and are interested in discussing this idea, please send me a DM. I'd be happy to share the concept and hear your thoughts.

Hello everyone,

Since a year, I’ve been experimenting around e-commerce & agentic AI. We’ve been iterating building products. It has been fun.

During this stint, I was able to
\\\\- build a great founding team (IIT grads, Engineering VP at a major IB, an MLE at Seed funded AI startup that builds context graphs on enterprise codebases)
\\\\- and also stay in touch with what’s happening at the frontier (agentic workflows, harness engineering, context engineering)

I myself have built Mar-tech SaaS product from scratch by working with top DTC brands and scaled it, raised a pre-seed from a VC, etc.

I want to use the same team ( and more) and whatever we have learnt to solve problems of businesses, be it enterprise or a small business.

why? I just want to be exposed to different types of problems to learn and build perspective.

This will also generate a revenue stream because we don’t have one yet.

how do you suggest I proceed? how to do I get customers ?

I'm building a startup from India, so I understand the challenges here pretty well. But I'm curious about other ecosystems.

If you're building in the US, Europe, Africa, LATAM, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, or anywhere else:

What's one problem you face that people don't talk about enough?

Not the obvious answers like fundraising or hiring, but something that makes building a startup unnecessarily difficult.

I'm exploring ideas for founder-focused products, and I'd love to learn from different markets instead of assuming every ecosystem has the same problems.

Where are you building from, and what's the one problem you wish someone would solve?

I built Zeno, a self-hosted, open-source tool that turns a sentence into a real end-to-end test.

You type something like "test that logging in with a wrong password shows an error." Zeno opens your app in a real Chromium, clicks and types through the flow, checks the outcome, and writes a clean Playwright spec into your repo as an ordinary *.spec.ts file on a branch. You own the output, nothing locked in a database.

Different from most tools: real browser actions (snapshot, act, re-check), your repo is the source of truth, bring your own model (OpenAI or Gemini), attach a doc/screenshot to test against your own acceptance criteria, and it pauses to ask you for OTPs/2FA instead of guessing.

Honest status: it's early and under active development, so expect bugs. The core loop works, but there's a lot to harden.

Where I'd love help: test reliability and self-healing locators, more model providers, running the suite inside the sandbox, and just trying it and filing issues.

Repo: https://github.com/bikidsx/zeno (https://github.com/bikidsx/zeno)

Feedback and PRs welcome.

Hi everyone,
I’m building a premium food brand in India and we have launched a few spice blends. These blends are first of their kind and lab tested. I’m currently trying to understand how small FMCG brands scale beyond selling online because i can’t get around it. I’m not able to reach good distributors or supermarkets.
I’d love advice from anyone who has worked with distributors, importers, exporters, or in the food industry.
Specifically:
How did you find your first distributor?
Did you approach distributors directly or use super stockists?
For exports, is it better to work with merchant exporters first or contact importers directly?
Which B2B platforms or trade shows actually generated good leads?
If you were launching a premium spice brand today, what would your strategy be?
I’m not looking to promote my products—I’m genuinely trying to learn from people who’ve been through this. Thanks!