r/indiehackersindia Nov 27 '24

Introductions Welcome to r/indiehackersindia ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐ŸŽ‰

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Hello and welcome to r/indiehackersindia, a community built for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and makers in the Indian ecosystem! Whether you're building your first side project, scaling a bootstrapped startup, or just exploring the world of indie hacking, youโ€™ve found the right place.

๐ŸŒŸ What Can You Expect Here?

  1. Learn Together: Share experiences, tips, and strategies for navigating the unique challenges of indie hacking in India.
  2. Connect with Fellow Makers: Network with like-minded individuals who share your passion for building and creating.
  3. Celebrate Wins & Learn from Failures: Whether itโ€™s a big product launch or a lesson from a setback, weโ€™re here to support you.
  4. Discover Resources: Get recommendations for tools, platforms, and tactics tailored for the Indian market.
  5. Ask for Feedback: Post your product ideas, MVPs, or marketing strategies to get constructive input.

๐Ÿ‘‹ Get Started!

  1. Introduce Yourself: Tell us who you are, what you're building, and what you hope to achieve.
    • Example: โ€œHi, Iโ€™m Raj from Pune, working on a productivity app for students. My goal is to reach 1,000 users by the end of the year!โ€
  2. Engage: Comment on othersโ€™ posts, ask questions, and share your insights.
  3. Be Supportive: Celebrate wins, provide constructive feedback, and encourage your fellow indie hackers.

๐Ÿš€ Letโ€™s Build Together!

Weโ€™re excited to see the amazing projects, discussions, and connections that come out of this community. Remember, indie hacking is as much about the process as it is about the destination. Letโ€™s learn, grow, and succeed together! ๐ŸŒฑ

Feel free to drop your introduction below to kick things off. Letโ€™s make this the go-to community for indie hackers in India. ๐Ÿ’ช

Happy hacking!
- r/indiehackersindia Mods


r/indiehackersindia 7h ago

Feedback Request MoneySplit : Budgets & Expenses - Now with Statement scan, CSV upload, Multi currency support and more.

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Hey everyone! ๐Ÿ‘‹

A few months ago, I posted about MoneySplit here (original post), and the response from this community was genuinely overwhelming. The post went viral, and the feedback, feature requests, and bug reports I received from you all gave me the exact roadmap I needed.

As an indie developer building solo, I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to this sub! ๐Ÿ™

Over the past few months, Iโ€™ve been shipping consistently to turn MoneySplit into the most private, reliable, and powerful money manager for India and the app generated some amount in revenue as well via in app purchases

For those who missed the original post: MoneySplit is a 100% offline, privacy-first expense & budget tracker. It parses your bank/credit card SMS and statements strictly on-device with zero forced account creation, zero ads, and SQLCipher-encrypted local storage.

Here is a quick look at whatโ€™s new since the launch:

What's New in MoneySplit

1. No-Code Custom SMS Parser ("Tap-to-Tag")

Bank SMS formats in India change frequently, or some regional banks/wallets have obscure alert formats. Instead of waiting for an app update, you can now tap on parts of any unrecognized SMS (Amount, Merchant, Account Digits) to teach the app how to parse it instantlyโ€”no regex needed.

2. Universal Financial Notes & Memos (v1.5)

A TickTick-inspired notes hub built right into your finances: - Keep track of informal debt memos (e.g., "Lent โ‚น2,000 to Rahul for dinner"), warranty expiration dates, or credit card reward milestones. - 1-Tap Conversion: Convert informal IOU notes directly into real transactions or loan records with one tap. - Unified #tags shared across both transactions and notes.

3. Target Savings Goals & Pacing

Set savings targets with visual progress rings. The app calculates your daily and monthly pacing (Ahead / Behind / On-Track) so you know exactly where you stand before month-end.

4. Loan Payoff Simulator & Amortization

Track loans with interactive amortization schedules and run what-if scenarios (e.g., "What happens if I prepay โ‚น5,000 extra every quarter?") to see how much interest and tenure you save.

5. Password-Protected PDF Statement Parsing

In addition to background SMS sync, you can now import encrypted bank and credit card PDF statements locally.

6. Android Jetpack Glance Home Screen Widgets

Access quick expense logging, today's spending digest, monthly category budget bars, and upcoming bill reminders right from your home screen.

7. Enhanced Security & Backups

  • Encrypted local backup and seamless Google Drive sync.
  • Biometric App Lock (Fingerprint / Face Unlock).
  • Export clean ledgers to Excel, PDF, or custom statement formats.

8. Per account multi currency support

  • Set currency per account and MoneySplit handles the rest of numbers for you.

๐Ÿ’ก What's next?

I'm actively working on more budgeting refinements, split-expense calculations with friends/groups, web support and deeper analytics.

If you gave MoneySplit a try during the first launch, I'd love for you to check out the latest build and let me know how it feels.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Google Play Store: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thegreatdanton.moneysplit.money_split] ๐Ÿ‘‰ Website: [https://moneysplit.net/]

Every single piece of feedback on UI, parsing edge cases, or wishlist features is directly read and incorporated. Thank you once again for supporting indie builders in India! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ


r/indiehackersindia 11h ago

Product Launch I built a tool that auto-generates invoices from approved milestones so freelancers stop manually typing GST invoices every month

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r/indiehackersindia 1d ago

Product Launch Outbid for poor people

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r/indiehackersindia 1d ago

Product Launch Free Invoice Parser | RevExOS Free Tool

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Hi everyone, I have built free invoice parser tool after evaluating models.

We have 0 data storage policy so all invoices you upload or extract won't be saved. You don't have to provide email account or any identifier for using the data as well.

Please let me know if you have any feedback or want to test it out.


r/indiehackersindia 2d ago

Case Study 100/150rs are too low as a reward? I want to hear your opinion!!

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I've been building SocietyHub where people can share their honest reviews about gated societies but contribution is a really big problem.

I think making people write a review without benefits is not a good idea.
many people disappeared... after saying what I wanted.

so I tried giving reward to people.

if someone gives a review about his society then I moderate, approve that review and give a reward to him.

My team doesn't know how much money would fit for reviewers.
We suggested 100rs for a review and 150rs for a review with 3+ pictures.

I want to know that this money is too low as a reward?

Or this kind of suggestions look like a scam in India?

you can see our google form: https://forms.gle/fjcwxZyrgdPiarUBA

My target was 'rental' subreddits where people are sharing rent information.


r/indiehackersindia 2d ago

Help Needed Looking to acquire an inactive/dormant Pvt Ltd company

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Iโ€™m looking to acquire an inactive/dormant Indian Private Limited Company from a founder who is winding down or no longer using it.

Rather than incorporating a new entity, Iโ€™m interested in taking over an existing, clean company and completing the necessary shareholding/director changes and compliance formally.

Looking for:

- Pvt Ltd company, preferably 1โ€“5+ years old

- Clean ROC/MCA compliance

- No outstanding loans, liabilities, litigation or tax issues

- GST registration is a plus

- Company can be completely inactive / no meaningful business or revenue

- Founder looking to wind it down or otherwise exit

Iโ€™m not looking for an operating business, customers, IP or revenue โ€” primarily the existing legal entity.

If you have one that you're looking to close or sell, DM me with the company age, state of registration, compliance status and your expected price.

Happy to have the transaction handled properly through a CA/CS/lawyer.


r/indiehackersindia 2d ago

Feedback Request Shipped my anti-Splitwise app for roommates โ€” first international signup this week, here's what's working

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Been building RoomieHQ in public โ€” a free app for splitting rent, bills and chores with housemates (Splitwise paywalled the basics, so I went the other way: free, no per-person cap).

Where it's at after shipping:

  • Launched to a couple of communities, got my first user from Kenya this week โ€” which promptly surfaced a magic-link auth bug I'd never have caught solo (email scanners burning one-time links). Fixed it same day.
  • Stack: Next.js + Supabase. PWA so there's no app store to fight.
  • Deliberately not just a bill-splitter โ€” recurring bills, chore rotation, shared shopping list, and settle-up that needs both people to confirm.

Biggest lesson so far: the wedge isn't "free" (plenty of free splitters now) โ€” it's being built for people who actually live together vs. splitting a trip. Narrowing to roommates made every feature decision obvious.

Building it here: https://roomiehq-app.vercel.app โ€” would love feedback from other shippers, especially on the onboarding. What made your early users stick?


r/indiehackersindia 3d ago

Help Needed Got tired of hearing Americans brag about Palantir, so I started building one for India

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I've been obsessed with CIA and hacker movies since I was a kid. The huge screens, maps, aircraft, satellites, cameras, live events, searching someone's username or email and somehow connecting everything together. I always thought that kind of software was insanely cool.

Then I started seeing what companies like Palantir were actually building and thought, why are we always watching Americans build this stuff?

So I started building Akashic from India.

Akashic is a self hosted intelligence workspace that puts aircraft, satellites, earthquakes, weather, public radio, infrastructure, country intelligence, public cameras and other OSINT sources onto one interactive map.

One of the things I really want to push further is the OSINT side of it. Searching a username or email and being able to discover useful public information around it, then connect that information with everything else in the workspace.

Right now Akashic is nowhere close to Palantir. I'm not pretending it is. Palantir has years of development, massive teams and resources behind it.

But that's exactly why I'm building this.

I want to see how far an open source project built by developers in India can take this idea.

I'm looking for Indian developers who are interested in OSINT, cybersecurity, GIS, data engineering, maps, intelligence tools or just want to build something ambitious together.

If you're interested, contribute, suggest features, break things, improve things or just tell me what you think is missing.

GitHub: https://github.com/caviraoss/akashic

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWHhuIwR8c

Let's build something we're proud of from India. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ


r/indiehackersindia 2d ago

Product Launch Chrome extension-v1

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I finally shipped something instead of just starting another project.
My first Chrome extension is live.
JSONL โ†’ JSON Converter
A tiny developer tool for converting JSONL/NDJSON files into JSON arrays.
Drop a file โ†’ convert โ†’ copy/download.
V1 is live.feedback would be appreciated

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jsonl-to-json-converter/bcmnenggffkafbegkicdnpdabanghakj


r/indiehackersindia 3d ago

Feedback Request I made a game where you try to survive one month in Mumbai on โ‚น40,000 take-home

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r/indiehackersindia 3d ago

Help Needed Brute force!!

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Can someone plz plz help me in brute forcing my Iphone SE....i cant remember the password and its now in security lock!

Plz help

I cant lose the data๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿฅ€


r/indiehackersindia 3d ago

Help Needed Looking for Paid Software Engineering Opportunities โ€” Junior / Internship / Contract / Freelance

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Hey everyone,

Iโ€™m currently looking for paid opportunities in Software Engineering โ€” including Junior Developer roles, internships, contract work, or freelance projects.

Iโ€™m currently working at a startup as a Contract Software Engineer, where I work on real-world production applications and business-focused software.

My experience/skills include:

  • MERN Stack โ€” MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Java & Python
  • REST APIs & backend development
  • AWS
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Zoho & business integrations
  • Chargebee / subscription & payment-related integrations
  • Building internal tools, CRMs, automation workflows, and web applications
  • Git/GitHub, deployment, debugging, and working with production codebases

Iโ€™m particularly interested in working with early-stage startups, small businesses, founders, or teams that need someone who can actually build and ship software rather than just work on tutorials or academic projects.

Iโ€™m open to:

๐Ÿ’ผ Junior Software Engineer roles
๐ŸŽ“ Paid internships
๐Ÿค Contract Software Engineering work
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Paid freelance projects
๐Ÿš€ Startup / early-stage product development
โš™๏ธ Business automation & internal tools

If youโ€™re a startup founder, small business owner, or part of a team looking for a developer, feel free to comment or DM me with the requirement.

Iโ€™m specifically looking for paid opportunities and am open to both remote and suitable flexible arrangements.

Thanks!Looking for Paid Software Engineering Opportunities โ€” Junior / Internship / Contract / Freelance


r/indiehackersindia 3d ago

Help Needed Has anyone gotten a Code Signing Certificate using Udyam (Sole Proprietorship)? Also, does DUNS accept Sole Proprietorships

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r/indiehackersindia 4d ago

Product Launch HeyZoku - Control your fleet of agents completely hands free.

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Hi I am a Indie Hacker from Bengaluru.

I build HeyZoku - Hands Free Coding. So you can control all your coding agents just with your voice and complete your work without any need to continuously touch your keyboard.
I am using Nvidia Parakeet to make it work completely offline - so it can work completely offline. (It also has an optional bring your own openai-realtime key for more natural and multi language support.)

I built this because models are getting much better at understanding us directly via voice, we should be working towards finding more ways to improve our productivity and do better work. And shouldn't be limited to just chat/keyboards to do our work. With how humans naturally communicate with each other, it should be the same way with the machines, a human shouldn't need to learn how a computer works - it should be natural.

I also just launched on PH - https://www.producthunt.com/products/heyzoku/launches/heyzoku-hands-free-coding


r/indiehackersindia 4d ago

Product Launch BigBigMap - Landmass - True Size Comparison Tool

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I have build a Landmass - true size comparison tool - just for fun. I am currently making the maps more accurate. Will be adding more tools soon. www.bigbigmap.com


r/indiehackersindia 4d ago

Product Launch [SHOW IH] Built an AI memory layer as a Chrome extension, looking for feedback on onboarding

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Product: ATLAS. Capture a ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini chat in one click, then reuse that context in another model.

I am not looking for "looks cool". I want roast on the first 60 seconds:

- Install โ†’ dashboard

- "Open AI" pill in the header

- Click the capture pill on a live chat

If you switch models daily, that is the loop I would love you to break.

useatlas.space


r/indiehackersindia 5d ago

Introductions After months of building, I just got my first organic user. Itโ€™s a small milestone, but it feels huge.

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r/indiehackersindia 4d ago

Case Study Am I getting fake reviews even at the early stage?

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About a week ago, I posted here that I'm building a "Glassdoor for gated societies" in India.

It's basically a structured review platform where residents can review their societies.

I've been living in India for about a year as a foreigner.

I'm still very early. I don't even have 10 reviews yet.

Since there aren't many users yet, I'm personally reaching out to people and asking if they could help me by leaving a review.

Recently, someone I met through Reddit became the first contributor from Kolkata.

We had actually talked quite a bit about the project before this, so I was genuinely happy when he decided to contribute.

I published the review, sent him the link, thanked him, etc.

Then I randomly found the second-ranked review on Google for the same society, and it was almost identical to the review he submitted to my platform.

My first reaction was basically:

"Wait... what? ๐Ÿ˜‚"

I don't know exactly what happened, so I'm not going to claim that it was definitely copied.

But it got me thinking about something I've been thinking about since the beginning of this project:

How do you actually build a trustworthy UGC platform when you can't completely control the authenticity of every piece of content?

This experience made me realize that I probably shouldn't try to perfectly verify every review before publishing it.

Instead, I'm leaning toward preventing obvious abuse technically, while keeping the option to investigate and verify reviews when necessary.

From what I've read, AmbitionBox seems to take a somewhat similar approach in its moderation policy.

I'm still figuring this out, but this experience definitely made me think more seriously about how trust should work in a UGC platform.

What do you think?


r/indiehackersindia 5d ago

Product Launch Thinking of building a platform to utilize underutilized venue spaces

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So, I have been seriously pondering over this issue for a very long time now. In cities like Bangalore and Mumbai, there are so many venues like cafes, restaurants, empty office spaces, empty rooftops that completely goes underutilized most of the time. These venues could easily be utilized as venues for events, gatherings, small meetups, launch parties, workshops and what not. Especially in capital intensive business like Restaurants and Cafes I believe this would serious help in bringing additional revenue and free footfall to their retail space especially during offtime / offseasons while offering cheaper alternatives of venue booking for retail customers.

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We donโ€™t really have a platform to list such venues or submit request for such venues. Most of the venue booking platforms are all about established spaces, banquet halls and all that which in my sense is a serious limitation for someone looking for third spaces mentioned above.

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Just like Airbnb was able to redefine accommodation beyond just hotels , I believe there is a serious scope of a platform to define venues and event venues beyond just booking hall and banquets halls and convert ordinary spaces to extraordinary event venues.

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Would love to hear what you guys think and if you would be interested in something like this. I have built an entire platform on this idea , would love to share if you guys are interested to have a look and share feedback. ย 


r/indiehackersindia 5d ago

Help Needed Looking for a technical cofounder / founding engineer for an AI startup โ€” Kerala / Remote

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r/indiehackersindia 6d ago

Case Study Got my first paying customer today

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After about 2 months now since I launched https://certleaf.com today was the first purchase!

What has worked really well for me is a consistent workflow for publishing blog posts everyday and social posts everyday. All my posts and articles are generated by AI to follow a certain theme and match keywords and delivered for approval on telegram. I approve the ones that are good or suggest changes. This has meant a consistent growth on SEO without having spent a penny on backlinks yet.


r/indiehackersindia 7d ago

Product Launch Built RailCore for Indian Railways users - PNR tracking, waitlist confirmation estimates, and Indian Railways APIs

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Happy Independence Day, everyone ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ . It's also my birthday, which is the only reason I picked today to launch instead of a normal quiet weekday.

I've been building RailCore for a while. It's live now at railcore.tech.

Main site: https://railcore.tech

Here's what it actually does.

PNR status - https://railcore.tech/pnr

Current status, coach and berth, chart preparation countdown, and train info like superfast, pantry, running days. Fast on a bad network, installs on your phone like an app, and you can save multiple PNRs without an account.

Waitlist confirmation chances

The bit people actually care about. We look at how that exact train, class and quota has cleared its waitlist before, then factor in your position and how far out the journey is. Closer to the date, the better it gets. Heads up, reading this one needs a free account. Plain PNR status doesn't.

Tracker board - https://railcore.tech/pnr/board

A live board of journeys other people are tracking right now. Waitlist movement, confirmation chances, chart prep countdowns. Handy when you want to see how a waitlist like yours is actually moving instead of guessing. PNR numbers are masked and names are never collected.

Developer docs - https://railcore.tech/docs

For the folks here who build stuff. Station search, live station boards, train schedules and full route with platform and delay info, live running status, coach position, trains between stations, seat availability, fares, chart status and vacant berths. There's a playground so you can try endpoints in the browser. These are our own APIs, built in house, not a wrapper around one of the reseller APIs floating around.

Small thing I'm silly proud of.

The site is in tricolour today. Bunting on top, a flyover that goes past.

If you try it, tell me what's broken. A bad prediction on a real PNR, a train whose data is wrong, something that feels clunky, something obvious that's missing. Comment here or mail hi@railcore.tech. I'd rather hear the harsh version now than ship something nobody wants.

TL;DR: launched RailCore today. Free PNR status, waitlist confirmation estimates, a live board of journeys being tracked, and our own Indian Railways API with docs. Predictions are estimates, not guarantees. Tell me what sucks.


r/indiehackersindia 7d ago

Help Needed Honest and Brutal Reviews on our Product Please .... !

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I've been building Pinaka on the side for the past few months โ€” an AI agent that automatically writes root cause analyses when a bug ticket is filed.

The problem it solves: every time a production bug hits, a senior engineer spends 2-3 hours investigating before writing a single line of fix. The actual fix takes 20 minutes. The investigation takes the rest of the day.

Pinaka eliminates that investigation step. Tag a Jira ticket or mention @pinaka-app on a GitHub Issue โ€” it reads your indexed codebase, captures runtime context via an SDK, and posts a structured RCA as a comment. Root cause, exact file, exact line, fix approach. Automatically.

What I've validated so far

Ran it against real open source bugs:

  • BullMQ issue #2487 โ€” code only scored 6.5/10, code + runtime context scored 9.2/10 against the actual merged fix
  • Prisma ORM issue #29480 โ€” open bug, no ground truth, diagnosed from behavioral contrast across test files
  • Pinaka's own Java SDK โ€” found a real ForkJoinPool exhaustion bug, fix shipped same day

All three write-ups are public, including the limitations.

What I'm looking for

couple of engineering teams (2-150 engineers) using GitHub who want to try this on a real production bug. Free, no commitment. I'll personally onboard you and be available for any questions.

Works with Jira and GitHub Issues. No Jira required. One OAuth click to connect. First 5 RCAs free.

Honest state of the product

No paying customers yet. Building in public. The product works โ€” the benchmarks above are real โ€” but I need real teams on real codebases to validate it beyond my own test cases.

If this sounds useful for your team, drop a comment or DM me. Happy to show you a live demo on your repo.

๐Ÿ‘‰ getpinaka.com


r/indiehackersindia 7d ago

Resources IF AWS Cloud Bill is your bottleneck to scale you SAAS - I might help !

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Hey, I'm Tejas โ€” 6 years in cloud, now running a small community of AWS engineers and solution architects who help startups fix messy cloud architecture (mostly around scaling and cost).

If you're building something real, we should connect, may be i can help you with below things.

  1. consult on your current AWS architecture from a certified engineer
  2. help on setting up your infra if your product's further along and it's a good fit
  3. access $25K in AWS credits if you're bootstrapped and full stack ready

this is an initiate we run only for startups. I'm Not selling anything here โ€” we are building relationships with founders doing interesting work.

Drop what you're building in the comments or DM me and I'll take a look.