WeDesi is an app for Indians living abroad. It finds the people near you who share your roots, keeps your festivals on your calendar, and points you to desi services your community actually vouches for.
Garba nights and Ganpati visarjans. A pandit for the griha pravesh. The three Gujarati families two blocks over. It's all around you. WeDesi puts it on one screen.
Find your people, keep your festivals, hire someone you can trust, and hold on to what you carried over.
It is nine at night, you need it by Saturday, and you are typing into the family group again โ because you do not know where to buy it, who to trust, or what the thing is even properly called.
Ask WeDeshi the way you would ask an aunty. Spell it however your family spells it. Say what you need instead of guessing which trade it belongs to. You get the thing itself โ the shop three miles away, the shelf it sits on, the pandit who does that exact ceremony, and what it costs.
No categories to guess your way through. No ten open tabs that end at a Western shop which has never heard of it. The people who have what you want are already near you. This is how you find them.
Tell WeDesi where you're from and what you love: your state, your language, your music, your festivals. It finds people nearby who overlap where it matters, and you send a wave. Contact opens only when it's mutual.
A festival calendar tuned to your state's traditions, because Pongal, Lohri and Bihu aren't the same day off. Temple schedules near you, reminders before the diyas go on. And when you go, one checkout buys tickets for the whole household, each with their own pass.
Fifteen categories your community actually uses: an Ayurvedic doctor, a mehndi artist, a Bharatanatyam teacher, a wedding caterer, a DJ, a photographer, a home tutor, a hair-and-beauty stylist, ranked by real vouches from real families, not whoever paid for the top slot. Ask a question, tag a provider, get an answer from someone who's actually used them.
That is the year for most desi businesses out here. A fortnight of turning orders away, then months where the only thing bringing anyone through the door is whether somebody’s aunt remembered your name. The Bazaar is where you sit for all of it, and being listed costs nothing.
A haat is what opens on top when a season arrives. Diwali, obviously. Also the run of spring wedding bookings, and the fortnight before Navratri when half the metro is hunting for a chaniya choli in the right size. Tax season, if what you sell is a return. Your stall goes up in front of the people already looking, for as long as they are looking.
Rent is flat and every stall is the same size. The order reshuffles each time somebody opens the page, so there is no top spot to pay for and no point in asking. Vouches are not for sale either. And nothing runs through a checkout here: they ring you, and the rest of it is between the two of you.
Some of what a haat fills up with.
You booked the hall back in June. You have been chasing the dhol player since the end of August. Last year about forty people turned up at the door who were not on anybody’s list, and you sorted it out there in the dark off a printout and someone’s phone torch. None of that is the event. It is the stuff stacked around the event, and it is where the weekend goes.
Ticket tiers with their own capacity · promo codes · QR check-in at the door with a live count · the attendee list with contacts, yours to export · refunds on the policy you set · co-organisers with their own logins · free events cost nothing, and paid tickets are 2.5%
Tell us what you run and roughly how often. We are switching the organiser tools on city by city, starting here.
Members never pay. Businesses rent stalls at the seasonal haat, organisers pay 2.5% on paid tickets, partners fund the rewards members earn. Every listing is ordered by vouches, which no one can buy.
Everywhere else, reaching Indian families abroad means bidding on keywords against somebody with deeper pockets and hoping the click was a real person. Here those families are already gathered: by home state, by language, by the festival that is three weeks out. That gathering exists nowhere else, and it is not for sale to the highest bidder.
Claim your listing free · your first haat is free · flat rent after that, the same stall everyone else gets
Joins the same first batch. We'll reach out as the directory opens in your city.
No ad networks. No trackers. No auctioned rank.
Your state, your language, your festivals, the food you miss. Two minutes. You control who sees what.
People, events, temples and services that match your roots, near you, on one screen.
Wave. RSVP. Bring the family. The friendships happen at the mela. WeDesi just gets you there.
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