I'm a student founder building a broker-free real estate platform for India

Hey everyone

I'm Manirathanm, a student founder from Hyderabad, India.

Over the past few months, I've been building Bhumikaa — a broker-free real estate platform where buyers and sellers can connect directly.

The idea came from seeing how frustrating property search can be:

• Duplicate listings

• Fake or outdated information

• Endless broker calls

• No transparency

I'm not claiming I've solved all of these problems.

In fact, building a marketplace has been much harder than I imagined 😅

One piece of advice I got recently really stuck with me:

"Don't chase distribution until you have liquidity."

Instead of trying to cover an entire city, I'm now focusing on building density and trust in smaller areas first.

I recently made a short product demo:

https://youtu.be/lVeH8gy4KPA

I'm still very early:

• Solo founder

• No funding

• Learning as I go

• First few users are joining

I'd love to hear from founders who have built marketplaces:

1. What's the hardest part about creating liquidity?

2. How did you get your first 100 users?

3. Any mistakes I should avoid?

Thanks for reading.