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Just a heads-up for everyone: the road from Dange Chowk towards Birla Chinchwad Gaon is currently closed. If you're planning to travel on this route, use an alternate road to avoid getting stuck in traffic.
Drive safe!
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Been thinking about this for a while a small street-side stall in the Hinjewadi IT area, just doing different types of hot coffee. Nothing fancy, no big menu. Filter coffee, black coffee, maybe a couple of flavored ones. Open only early morning (before office rush) and evening (after office hours) the two times when people actually want a coffee break outside.
Thinking it could work well near the tech park gates or main street where the footfall is high but there aren't many good hot coffee options right now mostly just tea stalls or overpriced cafes.
Curious if:
- Anyone else has thought about something like this
- Anyone from the Hinjewadi area has insight on rent/permits/good spots
- Anyone wants to team up or just share their two cents
Note - Pic is for reference not my stall pic
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Not trying to generalize an entire country, but lately it's hard to ignore. Deliveries, customer service, traffic, queues, public places it feels like people are quicker to shout or judge than to just have a normal, respectful conversation.
Everyone's dealing with something. Work stress, money stress, traffic that eats hours of your day, a system that doesn't make anything easy. I get it. But somewhere along the way, "I'm struggling" became an excuse to take it out on strangers who had nothing to do with it.
What gets me is it's not even big things. A delivery guy running two minutes late gets screamed at. Someone taking an extra second at a counter gets glared at like they committed a crime. Traffic turns into a competition instead of just... traffic.
Makes me wonder what kind of environment we're normalizing for the next generation. A good society isn't just better roads and taller buildings it's whether people can be decent to each other on an average Tuesday.
Half-jokingly, half-seriously this is probably why so many people romanticize moving abroad. Not because people elsewhere are secretly better humans, but because the day-to-day friction is lower, and that changes how people treat each other in small moments.
Anyway. Not hating on anyone. Just tired of the assumption that stress justifies rudeness. Curious if others notice this too or if it's just me.
Very beautiful and Human Friendly cat FREE Adoption available in pune. I rescued this cat from the roadside, where 4 dogs were waiting for her to come down from a tree. For her safety, I brought her to my home, but my family is not allowing me to keep her anymore as it's been 2days.
Please, can anyone help me find a better home for this cat?
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I don't hate where I am. I just know I'm not growing here. The comfort is too loud. It drowns out the urgency.
I want to live alone for a month, a year just to see what I'm made of when there's no safety net. When rent is real. When silence is mine to fill.
I have maybe 6 months before I need to be on a track that actually goes somewhere.
Not blaming anyone. Not complaining. Just I think I need the pressure of my own four walls to actually become who I'm trying to be.
Anyone else feel like home is both the best and worst place to build yourself?
Social commerce in India is stuck at 1–2% of online retail while China is at 30%+. Simsim got acquired and shut down. Meesho pivoted away from social. GlowRoad never scaled.
But the idea still feels right content-to-commerce, community-led discovery, UGC driving purchases. Just maybe 5 years too early for India?
Or is the trust gap and payment friction genuinely too structural to solve without a WeChat-scale super app?
Curious what founders and operators in this space think.
Is there a version of this that works here, or is it a graveyard?
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25th Jun : Screening - Jaane Bhi Do Yaar (1983), dir - Kundan Shah, lang - Hindi w/ Chalti Tasveerein Collective 6:30PM, Shankar Bramhe Granthalay Lokayat Hall - Law College Road, free to join.
Released in 1983, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is one of the sharpest political satires ever made in Indian cinema. What begins as the story of two struggling photographers soon spirals into a chaotic web of corruption, greed, murder, and absurdity. Kundan Shah's debut remains as relevant, hilarious, and devastating today as it was over four decades ago
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28th Jun : Last Sunday Of Month Run w/ HitFit Tribe. 5:30AM, Chondhe Patil Sports Complex - Pimple Nilakh, 200 (incl breakfast). Regn (choose your distance: 3K, 5K, 10K, or 15K)
LSOM is a running community hosting monthly runs across Pune and free weekly training sessions.
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Note - Dm me to join the community on whatsapp cuase reddit doesn't allow link in post
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23, CS background, currently unemployed but sitting on ideas that are worthless without execution. So I'm done waiting.
Done with job hunting. Starting to build my own thing instead small, from scratch, no funding, no big team. Just figuring it out day by day.
If you're someone who has skills or ideas but never found the right person to start with I'm looking for that person.
Doesn't matter if you're a developer, designer, have business sense, or just think differently. Remote and online is completely fine.
DM me if you're curious. No pressure, just a conversation.
Date - 16 june 2026 time 8am
This morning was a wake-up call for our entire family.
My father received a WhatsApp message saying his KYC was pending and that he needed to complete it immediately by downloading an APK file through a link in the message. He thought it was from his bank. He downloaded it. He filled in all his details.
Within minutes, his phone was compromised. The same malicious message automatically forwarded itself to every contact saved on his phone including people who might not know him well enough to be suspicious. He panicked and switched off his phone, but the messages had already gone out.
His colleagues helped him factory reset and format the device. I put up a WhatsApp status warning everyone in my circle to not click any link received from his number. Then I rushed to him and we changed all his passwords and secured what we could. We were completely confused and just did whatever we could think of in the moment we honestly didn't know if we were doing the right things or not.
The one thing that saved us financially my father never keeps money in his own account. He asks us whenever he needs anything. That habit, which we never thought twice about, protected him this time.
What scared me the most is how this spreads. Everyone who received that message from his number saw it coming from someone they know and trust. If even one of them downloads that APK and fills in their details their contacts get the same message too. It keeps going. It doesn't stop on its own.
I don't know if his bank account got compromised. I don't know how far the damage has gone. I'm still figuring things out. But I felt I had to share this so people are at least aware this is happening.
If all Indians deleted US apps tomorrow, India would save billions in foreign exchange but would trigger a short-term depression in the digital sector.
Life would not stop Indian alternatives exist but the quality, speed, and reliability of digital life would plummet. Businesses would struggle to operate without Google Workspace or Maps, students would lose learning tools, and the economy would hemorrhage jobs in the creator and IT sectors. It would be a leap toward self-reliance, but one made without a safety net.
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I tell myself the same lie every morning: "It's fine. Just get through today."
It's not fine. Nothing changes.
Applied to countless jobs. Zero calls. Zero hope.
My body is on fire. Hot blood, numb head, heavy chest. I just want to feel cold for once.
Parents don't talk to me anymore. They lost hope. I can't even tell the barber what haircut I want because I don't recognize myself.
Can't sleep. Can't wake up. Money running out. Cursing everywhere.
I live with family but I'm completely alone.
And here's the thing I don't like to say but I need to:
I'm going to explode if I don't let this out.
Not metaphorically. I feel it in my bones. Something inside me is cracking open. If I hold this anymore the heat, the silence, the lies I swear I will shatter.
How long can a person do this, bro?
Before the lie becomes the only truth left.
And before I don't just break I burst.
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I tell myself the same lie every morning: "It's fine. Just get through today."
It's not fine. Nothing changes.
Applied to countless jobs. Zero calls. Zero hope.
My body is on fire. Hot blood, numb head, heavy chest. I just want to feel cold for once.
Parents don't talk to me anymore. They lost hope. I can't even tell the barber what haircut I want because I don't recognize myself.
Can't sleep. Can't wake up. Money running out. Cursing everywhere.
I live with family but I'm completely alone.
And here's the thing I don't like to say but I need to:
I'm going to explode if I don't let this out.
Not metaphorically. I feel it in my bones. Something inside me is cracking open. If I hold this anymore the heat, the silence, the lies I swear I will shatter.
How long can a person do this, bro?
Before the lie becomes the only truth left.
And before I don't just break I burst.
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I don't come from a wealthy background, and I don't have capital or extensive business experience.
What I do have is ambition, dedication, and a strong understanding of branding, growth, and how businesses can attract attention and scale.
Looking to connect with someone who wants to build something from the ground up. If you have an idea, a startup, or a small business and need a committed partner, let's talk.
DMs open.
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Looking for someone who's:
- Active enough to catch rule-breaking posts early
- Fair and calm when taking action
- Genuinely cares about keeping this a healthy space
DM me or drop a comment if you're interested. No prior mod experience needed just consistency and good intent.
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Hey people 👋
Looking for a 3-hour early morning gig milk delivery,
newspaper, tiffin, groceries, anything that runs between 4 AM 8 AM ish.
Based in Wakad, have my own bike, punctual and consistent.
people who run regularly around Wakad, dange chowk Road, or neaby area. Would love to know if there's already a group going on.
And if there isn't one how about we start one? Drop your usual timing and route in the comments. Let's see if we can get something going! 🏃♂️