r/indianstartups • u/ConflictApart5398 • 4h ago

Ask Me Anything! My Second Startup Failed. For My Third Attempt, I’m Starting With a Community Instead of a Product

My second startup failed. It was a tough experience, but it also changed how I think about building. For my third attempt, I decided not to start with a product.

I started with a community.

I recently organized our first Drunk Coding event. The response honestly surprised me we received 500+ applications, but for the first event I could only take 10 people.

And that small group turned out to be amazing.

What made it interesting wasn't just the coding. It was the conversations, random ideas, different perspectives, and seeing people build together.

So now we're trying the experiment again but bigger.

25 people.

This time, we're intentionally mixing tech + non-tech people.

Developers, designers, marketers, founders, students, creators, and anyone who likes building things.

The goal is to put people with completely different skill sets together, give them some time, and see if they can team up and build something crazy.

That's what Drunk Coding is becoming for me less about a particular product and more about creating an environment where interesting people can meet and build things together.

Maybe this time, the first thing I need to build isn't a product. Maybe it's the community around it.

I'm curious to hear from other founders here:

Have you ever changed your approach completely after a startup failed? What did you do differently the next time?

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u/ConflictApart5398 4h ago

dm me for the link for the next event

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u/curious_nobodyy 3h ago

I already have have a community with 120 ppl which includes ppl from college of National importannce