At the age of 20 I along with my friend gave entrepreneurship a try. You know how you're sitting in the cafeteria with your friends post classes and random ideas hit you and you all think

Damn, this could really be something if we gave it a try.

Well, we took that talk a little seriously.

RealTalk started during Covid when people were using social media (a little too much) - losing touch with their own personalities and seeking validation from people they didn’t even know.

RealTalk aimed to revolutionise the social validation people seek. It was a platform where people can create aliases and share about their lives - no likes no comments only real connection.

You simply came, shared what you're feeling and oh - if you do seem like commenting, each comment landed directly in the person's DMs. This was us

• Solving for social validation

• Helping people make real 1-1 connecting and sparking conversations

Over the course of time

• We we’re completely bootstrapped - from marketing to building the app.

• We conducted surveys within our college and through communities to build a product that people would actually want to use.

• We generated over 3,000 leads within the first 4 months - entirely organic.

• We had users from across the globe as we targeted college students and teenagers to give the app a try.

However - after a year of relentlessly building the app while handling a job and college course we had to shut it down due to lack of funds.

Being a founder (for no matter how short a span) taught me how to build from scratch.