Himanshu Garg

Wohoooo we won the Sarvam Build with Bulbul Challenge 🥳🥳🥳 @Indilingo

Vibe coded this map component showing the number of @indilingo users in every country. Will soon be live on the website

Winner 2: @jaygala223 built Indilingo's AI Tutor, generating instant Sanskrit lessons with natural, spoken explanations powered by Sarvam AI Bulbul V3 voices. From the Bhagavad Gita to everyday learning, students don't just read Sanskrit, they hear and speak it clearly with authentic Indian narration. Already live in production, the platform brings one of the world's oldest languages to learners everywhere. Try it here: indilingo.in x.com/jaygala223/sta…

Building for #TheMicIsYours 🎙️ This is @Indilingo’s AI Tutor teaching a lesson from the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with voice powered by Sarvam Bulbul V3. This is a production feature, already used by real learners on Indilingo. Our goal is simple: enable anyone, anywhere in the world to learn Sanskrit, not just read it, but hear it spoken clearly and naturally. Bulbul V3 helps us bring Sanskrit to life with authentic Indian voices, making ancient knowledge accessible through modern AI. One of the world's oldest languages, taught at internet scale with India’s voices, powering it. Built with Sarvam Bulbul V3 Tagging @SarvamAI @SarvamForDevs #TheMicIsYours #Sanskrit #AIForIndia #IndicAI #VoiceAI #Indilingo

Two days ago, I woke up, checked the dashboard like every morning, and saw India overtake the US in revenue for the first time ever for @Indilingo: ~$250 from Indian users, ~$240 from the US. I started building Indilingo in September 2024 after living in Bengaluru for a while. I kept hearing about language issues between locals and migrants, and it bothered me. A bus conductor once shouted at me for not knowing Kannada. It wasn’t just my incident. This was a pattern I saw everywhere. I thought: why isn’t there an app where Indians can learn Indian languages from their mother tongue? We’re such a diverse country; this should exist. So we built it. Five of us, completely bootstrapped. We kept it free for the first year to get people using it and seeing the value. But reality hit. Bills needed paying, server and LLM costs weren’t going away, and we couldn’t run on hope forever. In August 2025 we launched paid plans. Indilingo PRO. For months, the US led in revenue. I was grateful people were paying at all, but I had some very low points. We built this for Indians, and I kept wondering if they’d ever actually pay. Everyone loves saying “Indians want everything free,” and I even got 1-star reviews just because we started charging. That hurt more than I expected and made me question a lot. But I knew the product was valuable and the problems were real, so we kept going. Two months ago we made changes that finally worked: we added UPI payments and experimented with pricing until we settled on ₹99/month and ₹399/year for Indian users. Things started moving. People began paying and really using the app. Today, we have people learning Kannada because they’re moving to Karnataka, couples learning each other’s languages before marriage, and many others learning Sanskrit to read ancient texts and write poetry. Our most popular languages right now (in order) are Kannada, Sanskrit, Marathi, and Telugu. These are real people solving real problems in their lives, choosing to pay for our product to do it. Here’s what I learned: Indians don’t want everything free. That’s not true. What Indians want is value, real solutions to actual problems. When you build something that genuinely helps with something they care about, they pay, they respect it, they support it. I know $250 doesn’t sound like much in today’s startup world of hundred-million-dollar seed rounds. But this number means everything to me and my team. It means we were right about the problem. It means the product actually matters. It means users trust us enough to invest their money in learning, connecting with culture, and personal growth. We’re still bootstrapped. Still five people grinding every day. Still figuring things out as we go. But we’re building something real, something that matters, and today I have proof it’s working.

We have Himanshu from Phonepe, presenting Mastering build with Gradle, assisting devs on painful build times🏎️ #blrdroid #androiddev

We're super excited to open source Indic-UID, a library to generate unique IDs using Indian language scripts like Devanagari, Kannada, Gujarati and more. Built by our very talented @aayushmor_13 ❤️

Yohooo! Finally Got Like From @kotlin @indilingo 🚀🚀🚀

@indilingo Lets Goooooo!!!

BIG NEWS 🎉 Indilingo is officially LIVE on iOS! Learn in any language, from anywhere, on any device. Download Now #iOS #Indilingo #AppLaunch

Someone stole our iOS waitlist button for @indilingo. Help us find it and you will be rewarded handsomely!

@GauravSarkar99 @OptimalHustler @indilingo @_im_nitesh Thank you @OptimalHustler for reporting this . We will fix this in the upcoming release 🙂

@OptimalHustler @indilingo Thanks for the feedback, could you please verify this behaviour @_im_nitesh @_anshulgarg ?

We are planning to add foreign languages to solve language learning for the global audience. What all languages would you like to see in @indilingo ♥️

Day 21 of the @theresidency's Delta program. - Initiated onboarding to App Store #buildinpublic #indilingo #TheResidency

HURRY UP!!! Indilingo PRO's Pre-Sale ends in 2 days

Day 20 of the @theresidency's Delta program. - Rolled out the pro plans on the @indilingo app in production - Force updated the users to the latest version for pro support #buildinpublic #indilingo #TheResidency

Day 19 of the @theresidency's Delta program. - Got a $99 sale 💸 - Ensuring the robustness of payments in @indilingo #buildinpublic #indilingo #TheResidency

@harr_png @theresidency @indilingo Thank you @harr_png

@_anshulgarg @theresidency @indilingo Congrats, you achieved the goal

Day 18 of the @theresidency's Delta program. - Made the first sale of our app—one of the landmark days of my life. @indilingo #buildinpublic #indilingo #TheResidency

Day 17 of the @theresidency's delta program. - Enabled pro subscription plans in the app - Submitted pro subscription changes to beta @indilingo #TheResidency #buildinpublic

Live Speech is now live on @indilingo 🚀 Speak with ease, in any language. Real-time. Multilingual. Built with heart. 📲 It’s live, try it now → indilingo.in/download Here’s a peek at the UI 👇 Tried it? Share your thoughts below 👇 #indilingo #TheResidency #buildinpublic