For Indian devs/students who want to start something but think they need money to begin.

What You Actually Need ($0)

A laptop (any laptop)

Free GitHub Student Pack ($200k value)

Free tier APIs: NVIDIA NIM, Groq, OpenRouter

Free hosting: Railway, Render, Cloudflare Pages

My Setup as a Solo Dev

Started with zero capital. Now running 24/7 AI agents that:

Generate content automatically

Publish to platforms

Sell digital products on Gumroad

Run on a single $6/mo VPS

Realistic Path for Indian Devs (no fluff)

Week 1 : Set up free APIs, learn prompt engineering

Week 2 : Build first agent (content generator)

Week 3 : Package as PDF guide, list on Gumroad

Week 4 : Automate distribution to Twitter/Dev.to

Month 2+ : Scale, multiple products, multiple agents

Money Reality Check

First month: $0-50 (learning, no expectations)

Month 3-6: $200-1000 (consistent shipping)

Year 1+: $2k-10k/mo (compound effect)

This isn't get-rich-quick.…