Community type · Chai Chat

Meet your people over chai on +one

Every other community type has an agenda. Chai Chat doesn't: it's the in-app category for casual hangouts — coffee and chai runs, “I'm in M Block till noon, anyone about?”, the Sunday walk that turns into breakfast. The name is the whole pitch, and it's the closest +one has to a general neighbourhood-hangout group.

It works because the group is persistent: “chai tomorrow morning?” is a live poll that ends with a time and a spot, and the regulars see every future one without re-introducing themselves. Photos of the actual chai, voice notes arguing about where the good kachori is — it all stays in the same chat, for whoever's in it.

Most chai groups are open: anyone in the area joins off the Discover grid, no admin approval, no interview. That's on purpose — the point isn't a curated club, it's that showing up to one low-stakes thing a week is how strangers in a new city become your people.

What a chai chat looks like inside +one

  • You just moved cities and want the unstructured version of a hobby group
  • You'd rather have one standing chai plan than coordinate seven separate friendships
  • You host casual meetups and want RSVPs, the spot and the photos in one room

Built with the group tools that ship in the app

  • Open joining by default — walk in off the Discover grid
  • Polls for where and when, results filling live as people answer
  • Voice notes and photos so the group has a memory
  • Disappearing ink when the vibe is tonight-only
chai-at-m-block GROUP · 12 MEMBERS
POLL · TANYA

Tomorrow morning — chai where?

M BLOCK STALL · 10:300%
INDIA GATE STEPS · 8AM RUN FIRST0%

YOUR VOTE ✓8 votes · tap an option to vote

#chai
Tap an option to vote

The live demo above recreates the real community poll screen from the app's own type and tokens — vote bars fill as the poll runs. A production screenshot of this exact screen has not been captured yet; when it is, it drops in here (see app/web/assets/images/).

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