Infoamtion is a necessity, but disinformation is a weapon.
I have lived in an Internet Shutdown that lasted for about a week. I was actually thankful for it. Don't get me wrong, It was inconvenient to say the least, but it probably saved thirty-odd lives.
You have to actually live in a tense environment (and be a minority) to understand how quickly misinformation and rumours can be spread that incite extreme violence and then counter-violence. Facebook/WhatsApp isn't very good at quickly taking down rumours, and people are easy to get charged when in an emotional state. The percentage of people who keep calm and let the situation die down is miniscule.
Reg. Kashmir, there have already been multiple instances fake videos/images shared by influential people, let alone everyday folks, within the last month (I'll put up links below later). You can only imagine the amount of inflammatory disinformation being shared by normal people. This stuff has already spread quicker than it is usually debunked, so the damage is already there.
1. Please stop self-generalizing. This only leads to hopelessness, which is unwarrented since there's a huge amount of Internet-related activism in India, even more than the Western countries.
2. Plese stop using the label "Third-world". You are your own "first-world". There's better labels to describe yourself, namely "developing".
A "Hobby" project turning into a business is a rarity. It comes down to expectations of returns.
If you want a business, a monetize-able product, you have to think about sales. The observation that majority of Software start-ups fail to avoid the mistake #1 from this article is accurate. And majority of Software start-ups start with an expectation of monitory returns.
If the expectation is a personal sense of fulfillment, anything other than a business for that matter, then what you are creating becomes more of an art than a product. There is a chance you might earn from it, but it is slim.
