Sahil Thakur's profile on Product Hunt

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I’m Sahil. I didn’t come from a fancy background. No fancy school, no business family, no exposure to this world. But I’ve always had one thing, I know that if I step into something, I’m not gonna stay unknown for long. I started with content. Built my audience from scratch. Now I’m getting into products, tech and business. I don’t know how many things I’ll end up building, but I know one thing: whatever field I enter, I’m gonna make sure people know my name. And yeah, I’m probably just getting started.

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banalo.businessYour AI co-founder for building and launching D2C brands.
Aug 2026

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Joined Product HuntAugust 13th, 2026

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8h ago

I had $0 for ads, so here’s what i did instead.

2 months into banalo and we re at 3.6k users. i ve put $0 into ads, mostly because i had no $ to put in.

What i did have was a brand new instagram account with zero followers and a problem i was personally stuck on.
So i just posted about the problem. there was nothing to sell, i was still figuring out how to build it.
Within 3 days 300+ people had messaged me saying they were stuck on the exact same thing.

Since then i just keep making content and people keep showing up.

The number i actually care about is 674. that s how many came back without me nudging them. The 3.6k could just be me being good at posts, but the 674 means they got something out of it.

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4d ago

Filled the claude startup credits form 16 times. Anyone actually get access?

Ok so i ve been trying to get into the claude startup credits program.
Filled the form, hit submit, it says application submitted . Then like 5 seconds later the same form is back, blank.

So i filled it again. and again. 16 times now lol.

No idea if my application is actually going through or if i m just feeding a loop. No email, no status page, nothing that tells me either way.

If you ve applied, did the same thing happen to you? and has anyone actually gotten credits, and how long did it take.

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5d ago

I think i'm cooking 😎

Ok i just wanna show off a little.

On 16 august i started banalo.business.
Today we re at 2.7k total users and 1,100 signups. it s a b2b platform, so those signups are people who actually want to build something.

I ve only been in the startup world for 2 months, so even the small wins still get me excited. i check the numbers way more than i should lol.

I ll post a month by month update here so you can watch it grow with me. If you re building something right now and it feels slow, this is what the start looked like for me.

Sahil Thakur