Every great Indian city story starts with a suitcase.

Someone arrives in a new city — for college, for a first job, for a fresh start. Within 48 hours they discover the two problems nobody warned them about: finding a place to stay that isn't a broker's bluff, and finding food that doesn't come from a fryer.

We started Tifstay in Nagpur because we lived this. The PG hunt that took three weekends and two thousand rupees of "visiting charges." The mess food that made Maggi look gourmet. The home cook two lanes away we only discovered by luck, six months too late.

Tifstay is the app we wished existed: every hostel owner and tiffin provider verified by a real team, every price transparent, every review from a real customer. Book a bed, subscribe to dinner, pay securely, and get on with your life.

Nagpur is chapter one. The plan is every city in India where a student unpacks a suitcase and wonders what's for dinner — built patiently, verified personally, one neighbourhood at a time.