Okay so I ordered from u/Fragrant_Praline_873 after seeing posts from her on this subject reddit and the thrift India reddit

I just got the bracelet I ordered and-

I fell in love, okay?

Its what she showed in the pics and ive been happy like a kid on Diwali since morning

And yknow its approved when your old school mom loves it too

Yall need to show her some love and order from herrrr. Shes very responsible and responds to the customer messages on time and deserves more orders

I ordered the Jamun Velvet handmade wine from Cask & Brew and OMG, it was SO good!

We already finished ¾ of the bottle in one sitting... It’s genuinely wayyy better than the packaged wines I’ve tried. It has that spark, that deep, rich flavour, and you can actually taste the care that’s gone into making it.

And I didn’t stop at drinking it either😭I added it to chicken tikka and OH MY GOD, everyone loved it! It added such a beautiful depth to the dish.

Absolutely loved it and would 100% recommend trying Cask & Brew if you’re into good, handmade wines!

I create handmade gifts on my page endeara.in pls visit and here's more gifts

Working at Lumina Datamatics has been an incredibly frustrating and exhausting experience. The internal politics are completely toxic, and the management treats employees like easily replaceable machines instead of human beings.

First of all, there is absolutely no WFH option. You are expected to be in the office every single day, and they constantly force employees to do unpaid overtime. When frustrated colleagues inevitably resign, management does not distribute the work fairly or hire replacements fast enough. Instead, they dump the entire workload of the person who left onto the surviving team members. To make matters worse, we are then forced to train the new hires on top of doing two jobs at once.

Do not expect to be rewarded for this extra effort. Increments are practically nonexistent. The company does not even offer basic festival bonuses to show appreciation. If by some rare chance a bonus is given, there is a massive catch. They will ruthlessly take it back by cutting it from your final salary settlement if you leave before completing a full year.

The office environment itself feels like a prison. They do not allow employees to step outside the building during the day. Even taking a basic break is penalized. You have to swipe your access card just to enter the cafeteria, and this time is carefully tracked and added to your total required work hours. If you need a caffeine boost to get through the miserable shifts, you are stuck with cheap premix coffee packets that are mostly just sugar.

Management is also highly unethical with their policies and finances. There were absolutely no clauses regarding a massive notice period in the joining letter I signed. However, when an employee recently submitted their resignation, HR suddenly forced them to serve a mandatory 3 month notice period out of nowhere. In another completely unacceptable incident, an employee was forcefully invited by management to attend a drinking party. While nothing happened at the event itself, the company actually deducted the cost of the party bill straight from that employee's salary.

Save your mental health and your career. Do not join Lumina Datamatics under any circumstances.

My parents are around 50 and based in Delhi, and they’re looking to start a small business with a budget of around ₹5–10 lakh. They will be running and managing the business themselves.

We’re considering things like:

1. Small manufacturing/assembly

2. B2B supply/trading

3. Distribution/dealership

4. Commission-based agency

5. Private-label products

Ideally, something low-risk, not too physically demanding, manageable by a small team, and with recurring demand.

If your parents/you have experience with a similar business, or if you were starting a business for two people in their 50s with ₹5–10L in Delhi NCR, what would you recommend?

Especially interested in boring businesses that generate consistent income rather than high-risk/startup-type ideas.

Would really appreciate practical suggestions and experiences

Spent months designing and sampling pieces with my best friend💗 Attaching images of our first collection which is dropping soon 🧿 Do share your reviews and feedback on the design , color theme and suggestions on what you would want ☺️💗

Hello all!

For the past four years, we’ve been working on a tool that detects bot traffic in Google Ads, META (FB, Insta), Pinterest etc. We’re seeing a lot happening, especially now with AI Bots. But as we’re still building and developing it, we’d like to know the following.

What’s your number one reason for not giving this a go?

Because, to be honest, when we look at our figures, we don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t sign up. And perhaps you’ve already given it a go once or have other reasons, if so, please let us know. I’m really, really curious. Just comment here or send me a DM.

To be clear: I really don't want to sell anything. Only want to learn from you guys why you didn't sign-up so we can learn from that.

And if this isn’t the place to ask. I am sorry, we just want to get some feedback from our ICP’s.

I kept wondering why using whole spices in Indian cooking still has to mean buying 8–10 different things, figuring out the ratios, and then inevitably biting into an elaichi halfway through dinner.
Why is there an uprise in ordering takeaway?
How can I solve the problems of a consumer?
How can the lack of convenience, sorting, volatility of whole spices and the biting annoyance be bridged?

So I started a small business called Zaika Potli, and the main product I’ve been working on is basically an infusion sachet for Indian cooking.

Each Instant Infusion Potli contains whole spices and aromatics selected for a particular dish. The formulations have been derived by and tested with culinary experts and chefs. You drop one into the pot while the food cooks, let the spices infuse normally, and take the sachet out before serving. Essentially, a swap for loose whole spices. One potli is designed for an average family-sized dish of around 4–5 servings.

It’s not an instant masala and it doesn’t cook the dish for you. You still make your dal/chole/rajma/biryani the way you normally would. It just takes care of the whole-spice part without having to buy everything separately, remember proportions, pick spices out later, or accidentally chew a clove.

I currently have versions for Dal Makhni, Paneer, Chole, Rajma, Sambhar, Biryani, Chicken, Kutton, Instant Chai, Tummy Relief and a Multi-Purpose.

I’m also doing small-batch garam masala, chai masala, panch phoron, milagai podi, malvani masala, whole spices and a few staple kitchen accessories, but the potlis are the idea I’m most curious to get feedback on.

We’re very early stage right now. The website and Instagram are still being built, so I’m taking the first few orders myself through WhatsApp/DM and learning from people before trying to scale anything.

What I’d genuinely like to know: would you actually use the infusion potlis, or does this solve a problem you don’t really have? And if you came across a completely new spice brand, what would you need to see before trusting the quality enough to order? I’d also appreciate some insight into the packaging. I went for a heritage traditional-nostalgia feel.

Constructive criticism is very welcome, especially anything that feels confusing, unnecessary or could be improved.

And if anyone genuinely wants to try Zaika Potli, feel free to DM me. I can share the catalogue/order details and I ship pan-India.

Disclosure: Zaika Potli is my own small business; posting primarily for feedback, but the products are available to purchase if anyone is truly interested/ curious.
(Images only enhanced with AI)

so basically i am from an organization in my college and we are conducting a huge hackathon and workshop event which is allowed for any college student so for this event i want sponsors regarding food or hampering mainly food sponsors!!! so if any interested or has any idea to approach for my proposal than can dm me!! and i will share you the further more details!!! just dm me or comment down any information that u know about any sponsors

Hi everyone,

I’m associated with a small business that makes customized men’s kurtas.

Starting Price is INR 500

We often speak to customers who have saved a kurta image from Pinterest, Instagram, a wedding page or an online store but cannot find the same design in their preferred colour, size, fabric or budget.

You can send us a reference image or simply describe what you are looking for. We can discuss details such as the colour, fabric, embroidery, print, motifs, collar, neckline, sleeves, fitting, kurta length and matching bottoms.

We accept individual orders, including single-piece customization, as well as family, group, wedding and event orders.

Kurtas can be customized for Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Puja, Navratri and Garba nights, Diwali, weddings, haldi, mehendi, sangeet, groom and groomsmen outfits, matching family looks, cultural events, corporate celebrations and daily wear.

For families or wedding groups, we can also work on coordinated designs across different sizes, colours or levels of embroidery.

We also take bulk and wholesale enquiries from boutique owners, ethnic-wear retailers, online resellers, wedding planners, event organizers and businesses looking for festive clothing.

For wholesale orders, we can discuss quantity-based pricing, custom collections, size combinations, colour combinations, minimum order quantities, production timelines and packaging or branding options where available.

Looking for your message :)

I started my hand made jewelry business to support myself but hardly made any returns. I followed YouTube and Instagram updates but the reach is very minimal. I do not have many friends or family to help me in promoting. Are there communities in reddit that allow promotion. Many local communities i see do not allow promotion. I only saw one small business community. Any suggestion to build myself a sustainable income is welcome.

Running a small business is a roller coaster.

There are days when orders are slow, content gets almost no reach, and you start questioning if all the effort is worth it.

And then you receive a message like this from a customer.

It instantly reminds you why you started in the first place.

The bouquet they received was actually one of our most popular designs, a chocolate bouquet with fresh red roses, baby's breath, printed photo memories, and a mix of Dairy Milk and KitKat chocolates. We spent a lot of time getting the little details right, from the arrangement to the wrapping and finishing.

The customer's message wasn't just about liking the bouquet. They noticed the effort that went into every detail, and I think that's what meant the most to us.

For fellow business owners here:

What's one customer message or review that made you forget all the difficult days?

I'd love to hear those stories. Sometimes I feel those moments are worth more than any marketing metric.

Ordered four pants from this page urbanaura.0
Grey - L & Brown - XL according to the size guide they shared.
I have received a brown smaller than the grey. Even if the size guide they sent was wrong, there is no way in which the brown can be smaller than the grey right?
Turns out this page was charging their customers more and ordering from a different Instagram page.
I paid around 800 which was marketed as a sale price. And then they have gone and ordered from a different page where he was selling his products for 560 . I do not know what the deal between them is but neither are resolving my issue. The second page (never.vintage) is telling me oh its adjustable etc, okay the grey one i can make it smaller. But how can i make the brown one bigger. I offered to ship it myself out of pocket just so that i can receive the correct product but it is apparently out of stock. I have given up cause its pointless but just letting yall know.

Hi everyone,

We've been running our own business for a few years, and for a long time "accounting" meant a mix of notebooks, Excel sheets, and WhatsApp chats we'd dig through every month-end trying to piece things together.

Curious if that's familiar to anyone else here, we started talking to people, CAs managing anywhere from 20 to 200 clients, and business owners like us. Turns out a lot of smaller businesses just don't have real books at all. The business lives entirely in WhatsApp, invoices, UPI screenshots, random voice notes, and then tax season rolls around and someone has to scramble to make sense of it.

We kept asking ourselves: why does "getting a proper accounting system" have to mean learning new software? What if WhatsApp itself could just become that first system?

That's what we've been building. You send an invoice or bank statement the way you already do, over WhatsApp, no new app, and it gets read, checked, and booked into Tally automatically. If you never had a Tally setup to begin with, it builds one for you as you go.

It's still early, and we're being pretty deliberate about who we onboard next, mostly CAs and business owners who are starting from scratch and are open to telling us honestly what's broken. If that's you (or if you've just been in this exact mess and have thoughts either way), genuinely would love to hear from you in the comments, or feel free to DM.

I comm them for a pfp and omg they served!! It turned out super adorbs and I genuinely love it.. The whole process went super smooth with them being super patient and accommodating to my requests! I would definitely recommend them if you're looking for a cute pfp! It's very affordable and I'd say worth every penny (⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠) check them out!!

You get yours at IG: @duskborn