Building a factory is useless if you have no customers.
Build demand first.
Then partner with an OEM.
A good OEM already has:
• Factories
• Moulds
• Engineers
• Certifications
• Supply chains
Let them manufacture.
You focus on selling.
@prakdadlani There is also a Indian Truck drivers playlist on Spotify.
Main thing is that a lot of developers build such projects not to make any money but just to play & tinker around.
That tinkering & playful spirit is what cuts it.
You don’t need to build a rocket.
You don’t need to crack AI.
You don’t need to invent the next Dyson.
Just fill a gap.
A problem.
An emotion.
It can be as simple as a Barbershop playlist…brilliant.
I didn’t invent anything revolutionary.
I just started manufacturing what imported products
Indian homes actually needed and figured out what can be built in Bharat.
Market it right, solve problems and you’re already on your way.
Marketing is solving simple problems and filling gaps.
Nothing else.
Look around.
Find those gaps.
Solve them.
You’ll be golden.
we have beautiful things because someone somewhere irrationally cared about something you don’t care about and would’ve never cared about till they cared about it and showed you what such care can do.
Do manufacturers actually make money?
Yes.
But just not the way most people think.
Most manufacturing businesses operate on just 5-8% net profit margins.
Compare that to software or financial services, where margins can be 20-40%+.
So why do manufacturing companies still become billion-dollar businesses?
Because they don't optimize for margins.
They optimize for volume.
A manufacturer selling ₹10,000 crore worth of products at a 5% margin still earns ₹500 crore in profit.
Manufacturing is a volume game.
If you can produce, sell, and reinvest at a scale no one else can match, you are going to make good money.
This is a bad way to represent data. Dhruv is being dishonest here.
Those long blue bars you see are not absolute numbers. He's doing a sleight of hand.
E.g. internet subscribers
2004: 4.6M
2014: 252M
2026: 1.09B
Now, here's where he plays tricks. Compare the numbers. +
@unfilteredDas That's why I stopped looking at jobs as permanent means of livelihoods.
Best to look at them only a temporary vehicles to get somewhere, sooner or later you have to move out of it.
What you will you do after moving out is very important to think of.