10 stories across editions, newest first.
A 20-year-old from a clothing-manufacturing family tested export surplus on Reddit and got 40+ orders; asks whether to launch a D2C brand.
Sajith Pai's irregular newsletter #46 on India's startup and consumer landscape.
A market tracker's read of 792 Amazon India audio listings claims Indian D2C brands sell 39.8% of units but take 21.8% of revenue; the figures are the poster's.
A founder's notes after a week of giving small Indian shops a free GST billing app: many download it, but most open it once and leave without setting up a company.
A founder asks for an HSN-to-GST rate API and finds open-source ones use old slabs or ignore conditional rates; a gap for anyone building commerce software in India.
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went into the Reliance results expecting Jio to be the obvious story because ipo + 500m users + all the noise around it ended up spending way more time reading the refinery section lol o2c EBITDA was ₹25,203cr this quarter...
Practice software for vets in Pune that keeps pet owners on doses and boosters after the visit.
Hyderabad's PopVax says its RNA Foundry can turn tumor sequencing data into a personalized mRNA vaccine candidate in eight to ten weeks.
A self-funded mobile car detailing startup in Mysore says it did ₹1.7L in its first 50 days and lost half its leads to capacity, but could not raise pre-seed.
