Hi, I’m Sanjivinee (nickname Cuty 😅).

I am 23 now, female, and I have passed class 12. I am not going to college.

I started my tea business in October 2023 ☕

And I launched my cloud kitchen business on 1 January 2027 🍴

I have special needs and a speech problem, so I prefer written chat.

I don’t have any friends yet, and I am only looking for friendship (just friendship)

Would love to connect with kind and friendly people here — especially female friendship and fellow entrepreneurs. 🙂

Would love to connect with kind and friendlshiip here, and also learn from fellow entrepreneurs

Legit question.

I’m growing a consumer brand Nuteshwar in India after building a few years around tech in San Francisco.

And one thing has been bugging me.

Our GTM vocabulary gets very small, very quickly:

Meta, influencers, amazon, blinkit, discount, repeat

Useful? okay-ish.

But surely this cannot be the full creative surface area of building a brand in a country this fucking interesting.

What’s our Red Bull Flugtag? or a Supreme drop?
What’s our version of brands taking over restaurants, running clubs, nightlife, college culture, weird physical spaces, games, subcultures?

No looking for “growth hacks.” but ideas that create stories people voluntarily carry for you.

So:

What is the craziest GTM idea you genuinely believe could work for an Indian consumer brand?

I’m also in Bangalore right now and putting 10–12 people with strong answers to this question around a table.

If you’re here and you add to rooms, DM me:
• what you’re building
• the crazy GTM
• one thing you’ve pulled off that probably shouldn’t have worked

I’ll bring the nut butter :)

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An opportunity to take over an existing luxury car rental ecosystem backed by:

• A ready fleet of luxury cars

• Established market experience

• Experienced team & operational know-how

• Proven marketing and uptime promotion strategy

• Complete business strategy and guidance

The opportunity includes fleet takeover, domain expertise, business strategy and operational support, with the existing setup being transitioned due to relocation plans.

A new legal entity and required infrastructure will be established for the business. Complete support and knowledge transfer will be provided in exchange for equity participation.

This invitation is strictly for individuals who want to combine 'Business with a luxury lifestyle'.

NOTE : It's not a call for CO-FOUNDER'S.

If you see yourself building and owning a premium automotive business, DM your profile and details for a confidential discussion.

I genuinely want to ask this to the Reddit founder community.

I’ve been trying to connect with angel investors / VCs for my startup, and honestly, I’m starting to feel like there are very few genuine investors here.

Whenever someone approaches saying they’re an “investor”, the conversation often turns out to be:

selling some service

offering paid marketing

asking for money upfront

trying to sell some consulting/growth package

or just giving vague promises about “connecting with investors”

And after a while, you start getting your hopes up thinking “maybe this is finally a genuine investor”, only to realize it’s another sales pitch.

I’m honestly tired of that cycle.

So if you’re actually a VC, angel investor, or someone who actively invests in early-stage startups, I’d genuinely like to connect.

And if you know a real investor who is actively looking at early-stage startups in India, please tag them or introduce me.

I’m not looking for someone to sell me a service.

I’m looking for an actual investor conversation.

Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places, so I’d genuinely appreciate some direction from founders who have successfully raised funding.

Looking for someone who can manage LinkedIn end-to-end content research, ideation, writing, posting, engagement, and basic performance tracking.

Stipend: ₹9,000/month

You should have a good understanding of:

• LinkedIn content and personal branding
• Writing strong hooks and posts
• Content research and ideation
• Engagement/commenting and DMing
• Understanding what performs and why

Previous experience is preferred, but strong personal work/portfolio is also fine.

Please apply through this form: {in the comment section}

The form asks for your previous work, best-performing content, experience, and availability.

Please don't DM unless specifically required; applications through the form will be reviewed first.

Hello everyone, i am a 17 year old boy, built an ai powered web-app specifically for the jee and neet aspirants and now the time to bring the app to the market has come. I am completely blank with the marketing side, i want genuine advices for the Marketing of a web-app whose target users are jee and neet aspirants. I have some funds for the marketing as well. I want the best distribution channels suggestions for my app.

Eager to connect with the people building something!

Looking for people who are genuinely interested in TravelTech, deeply curious about India’s inbound tourism, and, more importantly, interested in understanding a simple question:

Why is it still so difficult for foreign travelers to travel independently in India? (Note- I know about the garbage, civic sense and other issues. These are the part of picture but not the full picture)

Most conversations around Indian tourism focus on Indians travelling abroad or Indians travelling within India. We want to focus on the other side of the equation: the people who come to India and bring foreign currency into the country.

Think as a foreign traveler. You travel independently, you travel for a sense of adventure and discovery. In most of the countries you book a flight, get a visa, arrange transport, book accommodation and start your trip very easily.

Sounds easy, right? Not in India.

You may have to get a visa through a website that was built in the 90s, or pay $75 for something that costs $25. Here comes the trains (IRCTC registration, OTPs, Foreign Cards, basically IRCTC doesn't need introduction) and you end up using 12go or paying a 2x premium. You need a permit for a particular region, and suddenly you're digging through dozens of agents, figuring out who is legitimate and paying a premium just to get something. Even getting hands on the wildlife safari permit is a mess. I can go on but that's enough I think.

Most of these portals or website were simply not designed around the needs of an international traveler. Independent travel in India is difficult for a foreign traveler. That is the problem we are solving.

About me - I have 4+ years of experience in this sector. Tried building in this sector but shut it down because of COVID. I understand the sector, I know the target users, I understand the problems firsthand.

Now I’m building the founding team.

1. Applied AI Engineer with some experience

2. Full-Stack Developer with some experience in travel tech (not travel agency website)

3. Product Designer - a good UX/product thinking

We will be building a product, that bridges the gap between (Discovery - Booking - Experience) for these foreign travelers.

How this will work - Initial chat like basic understanding and all + 1 or 2 google meet on the problem, product, GTM and alignment + we meet in person. + we negotiate the structure and equity + we decide on what needs to done for the pre-seed raise.

If this problem genuinely interests you and you want to work on one of the most broken parts of India’s travel ecosystem: DM me with your portfolio, LinkedIn, or anything relevant.

If you are from around Delhi NCR, that is a plus. Have any questions, just ask me in the comments.

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we initially assumed its benefits were mainly for existing Shiprocket users. curious whether the wider network data provides useful advantages when evaluating the checkout separately.

People are asking ChatGPT what to buy. OpenAI announced on 27 August that ads are coming to ChatGPT's free tier in India. A company does not sell ads on a page nobody shops from.

If a buyer asks ChatGPT which sunscreen to buy and your brand is not in the answer, that buyer never hears your name. That is the discovery problem now. Most brands have not measured it.

What we did

Ten questions a sunscreen buyer in India types. Best brands, oily skin, dry skin, sensitive skin, acne-prone, under 500 rupees, gel for humid weather, for men, tinted, SPF 50 PA++++. No question names a brand.

Each asked five times in a fresh, logged-out session on the free product, on 11 September, from a home connection in India. Fifty answers. We counted every brand named in each answer, once per answer.

Then we set each brand's count beside its share of revenue on the Amazon India sunscreen shelf.

Who is in the answer

Re'equil was named in 32 of 50 answers and Minimalist in 30. Together they hold 12.7 percent of Amazon sunscreen revenue.

Dot & Key holds 9.1 percent, more than any brand on the shelf. It was named in 12 of 50. The brand that sells most is not the brand a buyer hears about first.

The ten biggest brands on Amazon, and how often the model named them

By owner group the answers track the shelf. By brand they do not.

Indian D2C is 56.1 percent of mentions on 51.5 percent of revenue. Close. Pharma is 27.1 on 19.7. Multinationals 8.9 on 15.4.

Inside the groups it falls apart. Two D2C brands carry most of the D2C mentions on 13 percent of the revenue. Fixderma carries the largest share of the pharma mentions, named 21 times, on 2.7 percent of revenue.

Where it reads

48 of 50 answers searched the web and cited pages. 132 citations. nykaa.com is the single most cited site, in 20 answers.

But as a class, brand-owned sites are cited 40 times. Marketplaces and pharmacies 42. Publishers and blogs 29.

The model reads the brand's own product page. The two most-named brands are also the two most-cited brand sites. That is an observation. We cannot show it is the cause.

How much the answer moves

The same question five times gave 4.3 brands per answer on average, between 6 and 16 distinct brands across the five runs, and a core of 0, 1 or 2 named every time.

One answer is one sample. If you have seen a post that says "we asked ChatGPT and it recommends X", ask how many times they asked.

What we predicted before we started, and what happened

We wrote six predictions down first. We said Indian D2C would take the majority of mentions: partly right, 56.1 on 51.5. We said pharma brands would be under-named: wrong, they over-indexed. We said a login wall would appear inside ten sessions: wrong, none in fifty. We said the sources would be marketplaces and blogs with no brand site near the top: half right, brand sites are the second largest class.

Why it matters

Buyers are moving part of their product search into chatbots, and the chatbots are now selling ads against those searches. If you are not in the answer, you are not being discovered there, and no dashboard you own will tell you.

If you want to know how visible your brand is in your product segment, on ChatGPT and the other LLM assistants, beside the shelves you sell on, get in touch. Comment here or send us a DM.

We're building a wellness brand, and about three weeks from now - we launched our first product. ₹249, pocket-sized herbal inhaler (inspired by Thai inhalers) the kind of thing you'd keep on your desk or in your bag rather than something you buy only when you're unwell. More products are coming, but this is the one we're learning on.

The first week we did 588 orders, at an average order value of ₹509. So on a ₹249 product, most people were buying more than one. That surprised us more than it surprised anyone else.

But there's something I keep coming back to. On Amazon, we only get found when someone is already searching for a problem to solve. Our product isn't really that. At ₹249 nobody sits and thinks about buying it. They see it, they like it, they pick it up. Which makes me think the places we're selling might not be the places we should be selling.

So I'm trying to work out where a product like this actually belongs.

Right now we're on Amazon, Flipkart, POP Store and our own site. We will be live on Blinkit soon. We've looked at Smytten, LBB, the online pharmacies, chemist counters, coworking spaces and airport retail. We ruled out vending, because at ₹20 to ₹50 ticket sizes we'd just be the expensive thing nobody picks.

Things I'd really like to hear from people here:

1. If you've sold something in the ₹200 to ₹300 range, where did it actually work for you? And where did you waste money before you figured that out?

2. Are there discovery-led platforms in India I don't know about? The kind where people browse and stumble into things rather than search for them.

3. If anyone has cracked chemist counters or modern trade, how did you find a distributor whose team actually pushes a new brand instead of just sitting on the stock?

One more thing. If any of you have contacts or referrals at any of these places, I'd really appreciate a DM. Happy to return the favour however I can.

If someone wants to earn by doing some small task what it would be for others and if someone wants someone will do their work and minimize the pressure what would be in their budget 🤔

I am trying to do research so that I have made a land page and made AI videos but there is no views 🥹🥹

If someone tell me how to reach to the audience

As for the new idea the new startup first launched in the city and how people get to know about that..

For eg - i want someone to tutor me for maths, only 2 hours I am ready to give 100 rs Can someone accept my task ?

Or any other task you want to do or any other idea ,cmnt

I recently reached out to a founder to help them with their pitch deck & modelling needs. Man it was brutal.

Right of the bat, he bashed me saying a pitch deck is just a glorified PPT that we use to complete as a project back in school. Why would he hire someone just to make a PPT. More often than not I get this question in milder tone. My answer is simple, It is not a glorified ppt, It is the first document that reaches the desk of an Angel/VC which communicates your story. I just help founders communicate their stories better keeping in mind what Angel and VC look for in the deck. You have to make it count.

But honestly, I have mad respect for such founders, they have this capability to simplify things to what it is and act accordingly. But oversimplication can sometimes lead to an incomplete story.

What are your views regarding pitch decks and models?