Resources
Ideas, market gaps, playbooks and tools — posted by members, open for anyone to read.
The agreements folder out of a business template pack: 294 Word contracts plus five website, hosting and development agreements.
The off-topic half of the pack, kept because it is genuinely useful to somebody: security bonds, affidavits, legal notices, property deeds and business letters.
Every founder faces multiple problems every day.
A practical startup playbook for founders building from idea to company.
Why near-equal splits with vesting beat "we'll sort it later", when to actually make hire number one, contractor vs employee, and how big an ESOP pool to set aside — with the equity guides worth reading in full.
Which entity to register and why it hinges on whether you'll raise, what DPIIT recognition gets you, and the compliance calendar — ROC, GST, TDS — that starts the day you incorporate.
From bootstrapping to a priced round: what SAFEs and convertible notes are, the India-specific instruments and government schemes (SISFS, iSAFE), what a term sheet really contains, and why cap-table hygiene matters from the first cheque.
Part two, at the application layer: the permissively-licensed libraries you assemble a product from rather than write — Auth.js and Better Auth, React Email, Zod, shadcn/ui, TanStack Query, Prisma, Refine, Payload, Tremor.
The bullseye method for finding your one channel, why founder-led selling and content come first, and the free playbooks — Julian Shapiro, Marketing Examples, Demand Curve — that cover the rest.
For a team of one or two: choose technology by how few surprises it will hand you, buy the hard commodity pieces (auth, payments, email, search infra), and add complexity only when a real problem forces it.
Not forty books. The handful of free, high-signal essays and playbooks — Paul Graham, Sam Altman's Startup Playbook, First Round Review, YC's library — that repay a weekend and get referenced for years.
Leading vs lagging signals, and the free tools — Exploding Topics, Google Trends, Product Hunt, Hacker News — that let you watch a market form before it's obvious. Plus how to tell a real trend from a spike.
The cheapest month of a startup is the one before you build. How to run customer conversations that don't lie to you, spot the idea that's a chore in disguise, and decide go / no-go on evidence rather than hope.
A starter set of production-grade open-source projects that replace common paid tools — backend and auth, analytics, scheduling, e-signatures, CRM, support, background jobs — plus the licence question to check before you build on one.
The places founders spot unserved problems on purpose — published request-for-startup lists, one-star reviews, support forums, your own worst week — and a five-person test for whether a gap is real before you build.
A concrete starter setup for a founder doing the work solo — which tools for research, writing and code, and the habits that keep the output trustworthy.
The resolutions a private limited actually has to minute, as editable Word files.
Registration, challans, refund forms, GSTR-9 and 9C working sheets, TDS and income-tax formats. Mostly Excel and PDF.
Ten statutory formats: copyright registration, trade mark assignment and licence, passing-off and infringement complaints.
Service and freelance invoices, quotations by trade, purchase orders, credit applications, vendor evaluation and complaint forms.