100 conversations
Season 1 is a research project: structured interviews with 100 builders across India. The same honest questions, every time.
A founder network, built in the open.
Build in India starts the way an honest network should: with the people, not the product. Before profiles, launchpads or feeds, we're documenting 100 real conversations with the founders, makers and student builders shaping India, and building the platform around what they actually need.
The mission
Give India's builders the network they deserve: proof-of-work over cheap signals, curation over noise, warm intros over cold DMs. Everything we ship follows that order: stories first, trust second, tools third.
How we work
The monthly memo
What we learn goes to the waitlist first: patterns, struggles, numbers, and one founder story, once a month, no spam.
Curation over scale
The network grows one verified member at a time. No open floodgates, no bots, no vanity metrics.
What we ask the 100
- 1
What are you building, and why this, why you?
- 2
What is the most painful, most expensive problem in your business right now?
- 3
What did you need in the last 12 months that you simply couldn't find?
- 4
What does everyone believe about building in India that you've found to be wrong?
- 5
Who are the two most impressive builders you know that nobody's heard of?
Contact & partnerships
For questions, press, or partnership ideas, write to hello@buildinindia.org. For everything else, join the list and reply to your welcome mail.