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Built a tech company from a village in Tamil Nadu. 3 years remote, now have our own office. Here's what nobody tells you about tier-3 India. - i will not promote
So this might sound weird, but I've been running a dev team from a village in Tuticorin district (Tamil Nadu, India) for the past 3 years. Population is maybe 8-10k people? Not exactly a tech hub lol. We just opened our own office yesterday - bought the building, so no rent to deal with. Team is 10 people now. 5 of them actually use the office, the other 5 work from wherever (Madurai, Coimbatore, couple other cities). People keep asking why we didn't just move to Bangalore or Chennai. Honestly? Didn't need to. And the math works way better this way. **How we got here:** Started fully remote in 2022. Just me and my laptop. Built stuff for agencies mostly - web apps, some AI agents, blockchain projects when that was hot. First year we did maybe 8 projects, made around ₹15L ($18k-ish). The biggest pain wasn't clients or work. It was infrastructure. Power cuts during demos. Internet dying mid-call. My family walking into the room during client meetings. You know, village problems. Year 2 we grew to 7 people. Everyone remote. Some of the team were living with their parents, same issues - no quiet space for calls, scheduling meetings around "when the house is empty." It was getting messy. Tried renting a coworking space in the nearest town. 2 hour commute each way. Did it for 3 months and gave up. Waste of time. So we just said \*\*\* it, let's build something here. built our own space in the village. Cost us maybe ₹40L total but it's ours. Zero rent forever. **Current setup:** 10 people total. Half use the office (needed a workspace), half stayed remote in their cities (they prefer it that way). We had to set up: * Two ISP connections (when one dies, we have backup) * Proper soundproof room for client calls Results? Last year we did ₹75L revenue ($80k). 22 projects. No one quit - same team for 3 years straight. Clients are in US, Europe, Australia mostly. Not one has ever asked where our office is. They care if we can deliver, what tech stack we use, can we
The company shows impressive grit and operational efficiency by leveraging a low-cost Tier-3 location to build a profitable, high-retention service business. However, as a dev agency, it lacks the proprietary technology and non-linear scalability typically required for venture-scale returns.