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OPT Start Date suggestion

Hi everyone! I graduate in December 2026, Unfortunately I didn't end up getting any internship offers this summer and I have no potential full time offers yet.

I've been told, you can apply for OPT either 90 days before the program end date or 60 days after. In my case, what would be the best case scenario to apply for OPT? I want to be extremely cautious.

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 3 days ago

If you're a CA onboarding a client who's never kept real books, or a business owner who's been putting off "getting a system" for years, this is built for exactly that starting point.

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.

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 1 month ago

If you're a CA onboarding a client who's never kept real books, or a business owner who's been putting off "getting a system" for years, this is built for exactly that starting point.

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.

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 1 month ago

If you're a CA onboarding a client who's never kept real books, or a business owner who's been putting off "getting a system" for years, this is built for exactly that starting point.

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.

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 1 month ago

If you're a CA onboarding a client who's never kept real books, or a business owner who's been putting off "getting a system" for years, this is built for exactly that starting point.

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.

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 1 month ago

If you're a CA onboarding a client who's never kept real books, or a business owner who's been putting off "getting a system" for years, this is built for exactly that starting point.

Hi!

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 at month-end.

So we started talking to people. CAs managing anywhere from 20 to 200 clients, a lot of whose smaller clients still don't have any real books. Business owners just like us, running everything out of WhatsApp with nothing structured behind it.
What we heard: The business lives in WhatsApp, there's no accounting system at all.

Come tax season, someone scrambles to piece it all together. So we asked a simple question: what if WhatsApp itself became your first accounting system?

That question turned into Tallyzen, a small team of AI agents that build your books for you as you go. A Financial Advisor who talks to you, a Financial Analyst who keeps an eye on the outside world, and an Accountant who quietly builds and maintains your books in the background, in Tally.

Here's what's we do:

- You send an invoice, bank statement, on WhatsApp, that's it, no app to install, no fields to fill

- It gets read, extracted, and checked (vendor, GSTIN, tax math, all of it)

- The entry gets booked into the right ledger, and if you didn't have a Tally setup before, we get you one, properly structured, without you lifting a finger

- You get a message back confirming what was booked

A few honest numbers from a year of our waitlist: 40% of signups asked for exactly this, get their books out of chaos and into Tally. 80% are businesses doing ₹50 Lakh+ ARR who still don't have proper systems. And 67% said yes to a call with us to talk it through.

Our whole bet: let AI handle the setup and the busywork in plain language, so humans stay focused on the decisions.

We're onboarding a small group of CAs and business owners right now, especially those starting from scratch, to try it and tell us honestly where we can improve. If that's you, join the waitlist here, takes 2 minutes, and one of us will personally call to understand your setup. Would genuinely love to hear what this sub thinks too.

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 1 month ago

In need of a Chipotle/Subway meal

Hi everyone, I'm in need of a chipotle/subway meal for dinner, if anybody is willing to get me one... I can pick it up too..

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 3 months ago

i'd be grateful...

Hi everyone :) I hate doing this but it's finals week and I haven't had time to cook/buy groceries and in need of a hearty meal, last I ate was yesterday afternoon and been on ramen and candy since. if someone could help me out that would be great :):

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 3 months ago

Hi everyone! I'm interviewing for a big tech company and I had my first round on 23rd April, it's been a week since I heard from them, even after following up. There are only 2 rounds on the interview but the start date for this role is end week of May, what does this mean?

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u/Little-Let-3730 — 4 months ago