As I Re-BUILD: From zero to 250 customer signups on Explara X — no ads, no buzz, just belief. How does it feel? Baby step… but what a feeling. 💪 It’s been hard work, rebuilding from the ground up. As Builders, the only thing we could do is build, delight customers, Ideate a new future, and have the team rebuild again. Once upon a time, Explara was heading to ₹100 Cr in gross volume — easily ₹300 Cr by 2025 — before COVID hit. Overnight, 90% of our customers — event-only businesses — had to shut shop. By the time the world reopened, it had been 2.5 years. Explara dropped almost to zero. If we had stopped there, the story would have ended. But some of our customers — communities — survived. Somehow 10% survived. Who were they? Communities and Organizations that thrived on relationships, not transactions. That became our inspiration. We rebuilt. No external funding. No debt. Just purpose. Explara - The Event Platform has bounced back after COVID—profitable and streamlined. But more importantly, we found a new mission: to serve those who survived—the communities. That's why we built ExplaraX — a platform for community-first businesses. 🥋 (aka Kung Fu Panda). 👉 What is @explaraX? Everything you need to grow, sell, and manage your business — all through WhatsApp Communities. Manage community-first business, memberships, events, commerce, emails, forms, payment links and engagement — all in one seamless flow. Have a look ExplaraX.com The lessons we learned: ✅ Transactions don’t survive — communities do. ✅ 1,000 people who trust you > 1 million who don’t. ✅ Communities sustain real value and become your growth engine. Thanks for reading. Cheer for Team ExplaraX — and more importantly, for every founder rebuilding from zero. We have miles to go.… Here’s to the community-first era. 🚀

Hey Finfluencers 💰 Likes don’t pay bills. Conversions do.

Hey D2C Entrepreneurs: 🚨 Ads cost you money. Communities make you money. #D2C #Entrepreneurs

People often ask me this question: How do I start building a community? Don’t start from scratch. Your first members are already in other communities. Borrow their energy. Serve the unserved. That’s how I built Grittiest community (peak COVID 2020), inspired by eChai & SaaSBoomi, HeadStart, TiE Local chapters, Super Morpheus, and more serving founders authentically. My goal was to enable founders from 2nd/3rd-tier cities building Startups to get support in their journey to overcome challenges. By the end of 2020, it had supported 170 founders. We generally forget ... The most loyal members often come from the margins, not the mainstream.

📣Join me in welcoming New Baby 💜ExplaraX💜 from the @explara Family! Raising a family isn’t easy. Building a community isn’t easy. But both are deeply fulfilling. If you're a community creator, community builder and solopreneur building a community on WhatsApp, Telegram and other chat tools, there is tremendous 👉pain with fragmented tools👈 to manage membership, events, commerce and operations to simplify your community experience. With ExplaraX , manage community memberships, events, and commerce — all around your 🙌WhatsApp or Telegram🙌. We're grateful for Community Pioneers & Entrepreneurs for their appreciation of ExplaraX! 👇🙏 @skipiit @avinashraghava @Eashita_m @jatin10 Sign up and simplify your community journey with ExplaraX today: explarax.com/

Just spend a lot of money to build a community? That's not happening. A Solopreneur can't throw money like a funded startup at Facebook or Google ads and get 1 million clicks. (Of course, how many convert to loyal customers is a different story.) In fact, a Solopreneur or community builder can create an AMAZING community around their passion or business with ZERO MONEY SPENT. There is magic in building that way!