Every gated community and colony in India's top 30 cities, with a moderator who lives there.
Coverage
About
We used to know the whole street.
Somewhere between the gate and the lift, that stopped being true. ZingBuddies is an attempt to get it back without pretending it's 1995.
Why we built it
A group of 300 people is not a neighbourhood.
Most Indian colonies already have a WhatsApp group. It works for about two weeks. Then it fills with forwards, the useful message about the water tanker gets buried under sixty good-morning images, and half the residents mute it. The people who need it most — the family who moved in last month, the elderly couple on the third floor — are the ones nobody remembers to add.
The information was never the problem. Somebody on your street always knows a good electrician. Somebody always saw who parked across your gate. It just has nowhere to live.
So we built the place for it: sorted by kind, reachable by distance, and open only to people who have proved they live there.
What we're aiming at
Free for residents, permanently. Local businesses fund it, not data.
Business model
Eight Indian languages at launch, because a neighbourhood app in English only is not a neighbourhood app.
Access
What we hold to
Four commitments we'd rather be judged on.
Residents pay nothing
Not now, not after funding, not for a "premium" tier. If we ever charge residents, we've failed at the business model.
Your data isn't the product
We don't sell personal data, we don't build ad profiles, and we don't ask for your contacts.
Small circles by default
Reach is something you opt into per post, not something the algorithm decides for engagement.
No public accusations
Neighbourhood apps elsewhere became suspicion machines. We designed the rules to prevent it from day one.
Contact
Talk to a person.
We're a small team in Hyderabad. Mails go to people, not a queue.
- General — hello@zingbuddies.com
- Safety and moderation — safety@zingbuddies.com
- Business listings — business@zingbuddies.com
- RWAs and associations — societies@zingbuddies.com
- Press — press@zingbuddies.com
Privacy, in short
The version you'll actually read.
- We collect your name, address, phone and verification document
- The address is used to place you in a colony, then hidden from everyone
- Verification documents are deleted once verification succeeds
- We don't sell data or share it with advertisers
- Delete your account and everything goes within 30 days
- Data is stored in India, in compliance with the DPDP Act
The full privacy policy and terms of use should be reviewed by a lawyer before launch and published at /privacy and /terms.
Bring your colony on board.
The first 25 households open it for everyone else. It might as well be yours.
Meet the people who make your neighbourhood home.
Find neighbours, join local circles, and plan events — with everyone verified to the address they actually live at.