Chai Pe Date

ChaiTech Labs

About this app

Chai Pe Date: find your people over chai — in public, in a group, in daylight.

Someone opens a table at a tapri near you. It has a time, one topic (books, startups, cricket, film and more) and a few seats. You take a seat, you show up, and you drink chai with people from your own part of the city who like what you like. If not enough people confirm, the table quietly calls itself off, so nobody is ever left waiting alone.

HOW IT WORKS
• Find a table: the board shows what's on today and this week in your area, with the tapri's photo, the time, the topic and the seats left.
• Join or ask: take an open seat, or ask the host for one.
• Confirm: an hour before, everyone confirms they're still coming.
• Show up: tap "I'm here" when you arrive. Twenty minutes is the default. If it's good, stay longer. If not, you had a good cup of chai.
• Free for chai? Tell the board when you're free (morning, lunch or a chai break) and see how many people nearby are too. Nobody sees who.
• Open a table: pick a tapri, a time, a topic and how many seats.

LOW STAKES, BY DESIGN
• Daylight only. Tables start from 8 am and end by 7 pm.
• Real, public places: tapris that face the street and stay busy.
• Small tables: two to six people, and a table that doesn't fill quietly calls itself off.
• No swiping, no browsing profiles, no chatting with strangers. A table's thread is only for the people at it, and it disappears a day after the chai.
• Your profile is a first name, what you'd talk about and a line about you. Only the people at your table see it.
• Leaving early is fine. No scores, no ratings, no numbers about you, ever.
• Block or report anyone, any time.
• Your location is used only to find your city. We keep the city, never where you are.

Sign in with your email or Google. Delete your account from inside the app whenever you like, and your data goes with it.

What’s new

Tap anyone at a table to see their profile. Once you’re at the table, it also shows what they like to talk about.
Tap an open seat to ask to join. It confirms first.
Pick “Other” and type your own topic.
Turning location on is picked up straight away.
Cleaner table page: chat comes first, and “How tables work” is a link.