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India's 1,700+ GCCs employ 1.9 million engineers and generate $64B a year. What they are building, why senior engineers keep leaving, and what it means for Indian SaaS founders.
Most DPDP guides are written for DPOs, not engineers. Here are the six technical obligations the DPDP Rules 2025 create — what each one requires from your backend, which phase it activates in, and where to start.
A builder's guide to what the GST IRP API actually requires once you go beyond GSTIN lookup — authentication gotchas, the 30-day window trap, and the build-vs-GSP cost calculation.
Most Indian startup engineers receive an ESOP grant, pocket the letter, and assume the equity is worth the headline number. It usually isn't. Here is what to actually check before you exercise or resign.
India has 1,900+ GCCs employing 2.4 million engineers — 43% of India's formal software talent. The standard narrative frames this as competition with startups. The attrition and comp data tell a different story.
The programme set out to do for Indian commerce what UPI did for payments. Four years on, the headline metrics hide more than they reveal, and the honest story may not be about retail at all.
India has 2,117 global capability centres employing 2.36 million people. The story behind those numbers is neither the cost-arbitrage play they started as nor the innovation labs consultants now claim.
The freemium tier converts at 2–5% in B2B SaaS. A trial converts at 15–20%. That gap is structural, not tactical — and most founders conflate freemium with PLG and end up subsidising non-converting users indefinitely.
The growth plateau at $10–15M ARR is familiar in Indian B2B SaaS. Engineering is strong, sales is working. The real bottleneck is almost always structural — and it starts with how product management was defined.
Indian enterprise SaaS deals fail in pilot limbo more often than at any other stage. Here are the four internal stages of Indian enterprise procurement, and where each one breaks.
ONDC crossed 288 million cumulative orders by August 2025. Amazon India does that in a few weeks. Here is an honest look at what the network has built, where the gaps are, and what 2026 needs to show.
The DPDP Rules 2025 went live in November. Full compliance is due May 2027. Here's what Indian SaaS teams need to build — consent records, erasure workflows, breach pipelines, and Consent Manager integration.
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