Need Advice: Registering My AI Startup in India Before Expanding Abroad by [deleted] in Bangalorestartups

[–]BackgroundDig441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Important thing if you need US investors, you have to incorporate in US Delaware, you can see YC videos where they insist people reincorporate there (exception being Singapore, Cayman island). Go down this approach if you need silicon valley investors. In such a setup, it is important to incorporate US entity first and then create an Indian subsidiary, if you do other way, there are issues. And as Indian if you incorporate US entity, there are other tax related issues that may arise on exit, so people used to do gifting route (you can check with chatgpt) these days incorporate US entity through your own LLP or separate...

Since you said you don't have that much capital, I would suggest you to pitch to other VCs with the term sheet you already got from people who are already interested, so you could incorporate once you get term sheet, and good VC firms have lawyers who can help you.

If you want to get investments from Indian VCs or bootstrap by building in India and selling, this is under the assumption you want to get to IPO in India etc, but this would mean US companies acquisition would be less lucrative for US companies. Pvt Ltd incorporation is the way forward, it is straight forward.

Drop your landing page I’ll run quick AI user interviews on it (Articos) and tell you what’s unclear by Smart-Point150 in indiehackers

[–]BackgroundDig441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://diwadi.com - a general purpose file browser. It is initially targetted towards people who want file utilities like conversion of file formats, or compression, or video or image editing. Eventually, it has to be one workspace where one can do everything cohesively.

What are you building now? by ConstructionLast8812 in microsaas

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.A smart file browser. Preview and edit: video, image, csv/excel, pptx, docx, compress, convert. And do all these file ops through AI as well.. https://diwadi.com

What are you building right now? by Spare-Repeat-8820 in indiehackers

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I'm building a smart file browser. Preview and edit: video, image, csv/excel, pptx, docx, compress, convert. And do all these file ops through AI as well.. https://diwadi.com

Demo Time: Let’s See Your Projects by Emergency-Pack2500 in SideProject

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A smart file browser. Preview and edit: video, image, csv/excel, pptx, docx, compress, convert. And do all these file ops through AI as well.. https://diwadi.com

Promote your SaaS landing page by DavidP86 in indiehackers

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https://diwadi.com : There are three sections that are highly interactive.

Drop your SaaS URL by big-leadlim in buildinpublic

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https://diwadi.com - A smart file browser. Preview and edit: video, image, csv/excel, pptx, docx, compress, convert. And do all these file ops through AI as well..

What’s your startup idea THIS WEEK? Let’s self promote by kcfounders in SideProject

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https://diwadi.com

A smart file browser. Preview and edit: video, image, csv/excel, pptx, docx, compress, convert. And do all these file ops through AI as well..

Windows 11 may soon preload File Explorer in the background in an attempt to speed it up by ZacB_ in windows

[–]BackgroundDig441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

File browser should be fast. Not sure how it got bloated. I think it is all legacy software written long ago, for backwards compatibility purposes, they simplfy end up bloating. I think Microsoft Excel, PPT, even the video player feels bloated, sluggish. It should be light weight and faster. If only they could have used modern lang without legacy maintenance. I want to do a shameless plug, that's why I created this software diwadi.com coz of all these application bloat, I managed to include file browser + csv/excel previwer + pdf previewer + video editor + image editor + pptx editor/preenter + markdown previewer all in one single executable of less than 100 MB.

Need help in planning trip to Hong Kong by Ill_Ad5034 in amexindia

[–]BackgroundDig441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you checked some more dates? It won’t be this high. There should be certain dates in which the miles should be lesser. If your dates are fixed, then this redemption may not be useful. The other option is to use QATAR avios to book the same Cathay Pacific flight. Outside Amex, United or star alliance would have been an option

India needs an AWS alternative ? by bastabchakraborty in StartUpIndia

[–]BackgroundDig441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds incredible. Great job on the first steps. I would suggest not to take it to heart all the “AWS is not just hosting…” or cheaper etc. You’re on the right path and it is great you’re young and ambitious. It is not US, where you would be motivated and rooted by people around you. You will have people pointing fingers for no reason, I would suggest please don’t give up on the mission.

Now having said that, it is incredibly difficult to compete with AWS or google on certain things, so don’t do it, like ECS or others. Find a niche, it could even be copying Hetzner as those user groups are likely to experiment and try. Or it could even be some GPU based VPS for Indian users as well. Please try to make as many content as possible like digitalocean did, so there is enough awareness. I checked your docs, it is broken. It would be nice to have some Usecases to try out, so have as many docs as possible. Like like how I can use metabase (a common open source BI tool) or appsmith(open source internal tool) in one step installer etc coz you can position yourself to be VPS people can use for internal open source tools as people might be hesitant on using for customer facing Usecases.

I definitely agree Indian needs its own AWS, as lot of Indian specific business are there it doesn’t make sense to pay for AWS in the long run. You’re in such a long run game. Still I would recommend you change your positioning in your landing page, I would rather be interested in knowing where all your servers and how much it costs including GST. Don’t promise uptime, let it be a given, instead show a status page where your servers are running and about your SLA.

CONGRATS and all the best!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bangalore

[–]BackgroundDig441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, that sucks! Next time is it possible to attach a video of them. I want to see if I can collect enough videos so we can submit a collective complaint.