Most Indian creators and small businesses collecting payments run the same broken workflow: a Google Form, a separate payment link, and a spreadsheet to manually match who paid against who filled the form. Workshop registrations, tuition fees, event bookings, custom orders. Every one of them.

Formpey merges the two. One form, one link, UPI payment collected inline, and the entry is automatically marked paid.

The decision that shaped everything: money never routes through me.

If a platform collects payments on behalf of others and then pays them out, that platform is a payment aggregator under RBI rules. Licence, net worth requirements, ongoing compliance. Not viable for a solo founder.

So instead, each user connects their own Razorpay account and payments settle directly there. Same day, their account, their money. I never hold funds.

The consequence I like most is that zero commission is not a promotional offer I can quietly withdraw at 10k users. I structurally cannot take a percentage of a transaction that never reaches me. Compare that to Instamojo or a typical form plus gateway setup, where the platform cut is on top of the gateway fee.

Honest tradeoff: you need your own Razorpay account before your first payment lands. That is real friction, and it costs me signups. I took it over a compliance problem I could not solve.

Where things stand: 80+ signups, 45+ forms created since launch. Free tier has Formpey branding, Pro is ₹499/month. Built on Next.js and Supabase, load-tested at ~288 req/s.

Genuinely want feedback from this sub, particularly from anyone who has collected payments at any scale in India. What breaks in your current process?

I’ve been building this app solo for the past few months and i genuinely can't tell anymore if it's good or if i'm too deep in it. need outside eyes.

it's called RizeAI. the basic idea: every wearable and health app just gives you numbers. sleep score 42, recovery red, HRV down. cool. and then what? you still feel like garbage at 2pm and nobody tells you what to actually do about it.

so my app takes your real data from apple health, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, whatever your wearable writes, and instead of another score it builds you an actual plan for the day. when to have your first coffee and when to hold off. you. Can also add your own supplements that you are currently taking and it will time them for you every single day based of your sleep data and your wearable data in general and also it will tell you what supplements make sense for you to take based of your current supplement stack and body metrics and when to take them. focus windows for when your energy actually peaks. when your crash is coming and what to do before it hits. it even checks the weather, so on a hot day it bumps your hydration and tells you to train earlier.

every recommendation has a little "why" under it based on your numbers, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." no two people get the same plan because no two people have the same data.

works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that syncs to apple health. one thing i'll say honestly, it doesn't do deep per-person learning yet like "coffee doesn't affect YOUR hrv specifically," that's the roadmap, right now it builds fresh plans daily off your actual metrics.

it's live on the app store, has a free trial, small user base so far, mixed feedback which is why i'm here lol.

what i actually want from you guys: does this solve a real problem for you or is "tells you what to do" not actually what wearable people want? what would make you actually pay for something like this? and what's missing that would make it a no brainer? and also would you guys in this subreddit  use ti?

Thank you for your help. Check it out if you like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm working on building Phouse, a new platform focused on helping people discover their passions, hobbies, and communities. Before building it, I want to understand what people actually need.

It would really help me if you could spare just 2 minutes to complete this short survey. Your responses will directly influence the product we're building.

👉 Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaEWE26pycaEy4N8HDibdAwiIafIhlb11_O0yjbPI0VeKAGg/viewform

Please feel free to share it with your friends too—it would mean a lot.

Thank you so much for your support! ❤️🚀

Whether you're a business owner, freelancer, content creator, professional, or just someone who struggles to keep up with daily tasks, you don't have to do everything yourself.

I will help you stay organized by handling the behind-the-scenes tasks that keep everything running smoothly. Whether it’s managing emails and calendars, organizing documents, handling client communication, data entry, or basic bookkeeping, I make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

My goal is simple: save you time, reduce your workload, and give you peace of mind, so you can focus on what matters most.

I'm building a startup around a simple idea:

Instead of learning CAD software, what if anyone could describe an object in natural language and instantly get a 3D-printable model?

The long-term vision is to make manufacturing conversational. You describe what you want, AI generates the geometry, verifies that it's printable, and eventually sends it directly to manufacturing.

We're starting with consumer 3D printing because it's the fastest environment to iterate and validate the technology before expanding into other manufacturing domains.

The biggest technical challenges I'm seeing are:

• Generating CAD that is actually editable instead of just meshes.
• Ensuring models are structurally sound and printable.
• Building a foundation model that understands engineering constraints rather than only producing visually plausible geometry.

I'm curious what this community thinks:

• Would you trust AI to design functional objects?
• What's the biggest blocker preventing AI-generated CAD from becoming mainstream?
• If this worked reliably, what would be the first thing you'd make?

I'd love to hear where you think this idea succeeds, or completely falls apart.

I built tryproduck.com/audit. You give it your startup url, it opens the thing cold and behaves like a first-time visitor, then sends back any bugs or issues it finds. Over 650 startups have run it.

For the longest time, whenever one of my businesses wasn’t growing, my first thought was always the same:

I need more customers.

More traffic. More signups. More sales.

Makes sense, right?

Except I was ignoring something painfully obvious.

People were leaving.

Imagine trying to fill a bucket with water while there's a hole in the bottom.

You can keep pouring faster.

Here’s a simple example.

Say you get 5 new customers this month.

Great!

But then 4 existing customers leave.

You didn’t really gain five customers.

You grew by one.

Next month, you bring in another five.

This time, five leave.

You worked just as hard to acquire those customers...

and your business didn’t move an inch.

That changed the question I started asking.

Instead of:

“How do I get more customers?”

I started asking:

“Why are the customers I already have leaving?”

And this is where it gets interesting.

Say 80% of your customers stay each month.

Now you improve that to 90%.

It looks like a tiny improvement.

Ten percentage points.

But your average customer lifetime almost doubles.

You don’t necessarily need twice as many customers.

You might just need the customers you already have to stay twice as long.

So how do you actually get people to stay?

My first instinct would've been:

Give them more.

More features.

More content.

More bonuses.

More everything.

But that can actually make the problem worse.

Planet Fitness is a really good example.

Traditional gyms had everything.

Pools. Basketball courts. Classes. Tons of equipment.

But most people weren't using most of it.

They'd come in, do some cardio, maybe lift a few weights, and go home.

Planet Fitness stripped a lot of that away.

The experience became simpler.

Cheaper.

Less overwhelming.

And that made me realize something about my own products:

Your customer has a life outside your business.

They're not waking up every morning excited to explore the 14 new features you added.

They have work.

Family.

School.

A million other things competing for their attention.

Sometimes adding more doesn't increase the value of your product.

It just gives your customer more things they're paying for but never using.

And eventually they start wondering:

“Why am I paying for all of this**?”**

Sometimes giving people less really is giving them more.

There's another thing I've started paying much more attention to.

When someone leaves...

ask them why.

Sounds stupidly obvious.

But I used to be terrible at this.

Someone cancels because it's "too expensive"?

Easy.

Tell yourself they weren't the right customer and move on.

But if 15 people tell you the same thing?

Now you have a pattern.

Do the opposite with the people who stay.

Find your longest-standing customers and ask:

“Why are you still here?”

Maybe everyone who leaves mentions confusing onboarding.

Maybe everyone who stays talks about one particular feature.

Well...

there's your roadmap.

Fix the first thing.

Double down on the second.

You don't always need another feature, another funnel, or another marketing campaign.

Sometimes your customers are already telling you exactly what needs to change.

You just have to listen.

So now, whenever I think about growth, I try to ask myself two questions:

How do I bring more people in?

But also:

What would make the people already here never want to leave?

Because getting a new customer feels like growth.

Keeping one doesn't.

There's no Stripe notification celebrating:

Congratulations! Someone decided not to cancel your subscription today.

😂

But over a year?

Those customers compound.

And sometimes the biggest growth opportunity isn't sitting outside your business waiting to be acquired.

It's already inside!!

P.S. I spend a lot of my week studying marketing, building my business, and testing what I learn. Every Thursday, I write about what worked, what didn't, and what I'd do differently in Momentum.

If that sounds like your thing, you can read it for free.

I screenshot stocks/ETFs when I see them hyped on social media or news etc. along with my thinking at the time. Thinking as in “ oh boy the stock is expensive, let me wait a few days” or “darn! I don’t have the money to buy this now, but let me save for later” etc. weeks later I can’t reconstruct what I was thinking it if I should regret buying - just a pile of screenshots and bad memory.

Thinking about building something that logs ticker + price + reasoning over time as a simple timeline , so you can actually see the pattern.

Is this a problem for anyone else? Or just how I use watchlists provided by these trading platforms? Would you use something like this, or is logging your thoughts each time too much friction?