IN 25 MIN · CYBER HUB
Chai and a walk before the traffic
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Socco is where working professionals in Delhi NCR make real plans nearby — chai at six, badminton on Saturday, a trek next month. Everyone is verified through their company email, so it stays colleagues-only.
Most people in NCR moved here for work. The colleagues are fine, the group chats are busy, and somehow Friday still ends with takeaway and a screen. Not because nobody wants to go out — because turning "we should hang out" into an actual time and place takes five messages and a week of nobody deciding.
Socco shortens that to three taps. Someone has already picked the place, the time is already on the calendar, and all you have to do is show up.
Times are illustrative. The point is how little of your evening this takes.
A company domain confirms you're a working professional. No throwaway accounts, no bots, no strangers off the internet. We check it once, scramble it beyond recovery, and delete the address — and your company name is never shown to anyone.
Plans near your office or your home, sorted by what's soonest and closest. Coffee, lunch, dinner, nightlife, sports, treks, weekend trips, carpools — and the ones starting in the next hour, so you can still join on the way out.
The host approves you, and only then do you get the exact meeting point. Everyone who's in shares a group chat for the details — where to meet, who's running late, how to split the bill.
No feed to scroll, no profiles to browse, no streaks to maintain. Socco's only job is to get you to the table. Once you're there it has nothing left to do, and that's deliberate.
Every open social app eventually fills with bots, resellers and people who aren't who they say they are. Socco asks for one thing that's hard to fake: a working email address at a real company.
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Most of these exist because group plans fail in predictable ways — someone's partner can't come, the chat outlives its purpose, four friends want to join but only two seats are left.
Every plan gets a group chat for the things that actually matter — where exactly, who's running late, who's grabbing the table. When the plan ends, the chat goes with it. No dormant group from a dinner three months ago, no archive of your evenings sitting on a server.
Some plans are better in twos. Mark a plan as couples and members can invite their partner through a one-time link — phone and photo verified, attending alongside you. Nobody gets a free pass; you vouch for them.
Book seats for your whole group in one go, and it's all-or-nothing — either everyone gets in or nobody does. No more "we got two spots, you two figure it out".
Tap join and your seat is held while you check with a friend or your calendar. Don't confirm and it quietly returns to the pool — so popular plans never sit half-blocked by people who wandered off.
If you joined as four, you get promoted as four. And a host who wants you can just open two more seats rather than turning the whole group away.
Screenings, comedy nights, community meetups and organiser-run events live in their own lane. They never mix into the plans your neighbours posted, because a feed where the biggest budget wins stops being useful the day it happens. Your feed stays ranked by what's soonest and closest, and nothing money can buy reorders it.
A separate rail for plans starting in the next hour, so leaving the office at 7:40 isn't too late. Hosts choose how long joins stay open, and can close them the moment the table is full.
Split the bill in the group chat — evenly, or by what each person actually had. The maths is done, everyone can see it, and no money passes through Socco.
Requests arrive in one place, each showing whether that person tends to turn up. Accept, decline, or open a couple more seats. Hosts are never marked down for a guest someone else brought.
Post your route, seats and share of fuel. Joins close fifteen minutes before you leave so nobody is still asking while you're pulling out. Cost-sharing only — never a fare.
Every plan has a private invite link. Use Socco to organise the people you already know, without posting to anyone else — same seat holds, same chat, same bill split.
Profiles show 20s, 30s, 40s — never your date of birth, and never your employer. Hosts can't filter by age, so you're judged on whether you turn up, not on a number.
You can browse plans across all of NCR, but Socco only notifies you about ones within a few kilometres. Nobody needs an alert about coffee in Noida when they're in Gurgaon on a Tuesday.
Built for people who've been put off by the idea of meeting someone from the internet. These aren't settings buried in a menu — they're how the product works by default.
Access requires a working company email, so the people at the table have real jobs and real names.
You see the area and rough distance while browsing. The exact meeting point appears only once the host has accepted you.
Any host can make a plan women-only, and you can see the mix of who's going before you decide to join.
SOS shares your live location and plan details with your trusted contacts. Reporting and blocking sit on every profile, plan and chat.
Nobody joins a plan by just tapping a button. The host sees who's asking, and decides.
Socco records whether people actually showed. Repeat no-shows quietly lose access to popular plans.
An app like this is worthless if it's empty. We'd rather be genuinely busy in four square kilometres than thin across the whole of NCR.
Real examples of the kind of thing that gets posted on a weekday evening in NCR.
I moved to Gurgaon for work, like most people here. Within a year I had a decent job, a decent flat, and almost nobody to call on a Friday. Not because the city is unfriendly — because everyone is busy, and nobody wants to be the one who suggests something and gets left on read.
So I'm building the thing I wanted: somewhere the plan already exists, the people are already vouched for, and all you have to do is turn up. Socco isn't trying to be your social network. It's trying to get you out of the house by eight.
No. Your work email is used once to confirm you work somewhere, then it's hashed and the address is deleted. Your company name is never displayed to anyone — your profile says something like "Product · Fintech", never where you work. Socco has no connection to your employer and reports nothing to anyone.
Because it's the one thing that's genuinely hard to fake at scale, and it's what keeps Socco to working professionals instead of becoming another open app full of bots and resellers. It's the wall that makes everything else — the safety features, hosts accepting strangers — actually reasonable.
If your company runs its email on Google Workspace, your work address still works — it's the domain that matters, not the provider. So you@yourcompany.com is fine; you@gmail.com isn't.
You're welcome on Socco, but not with that work email. Government, banking and defence employers usually have strict rules about using work accounts for personal apps, so we don't accept those domains — it protects you. We're building a separate way in, using identity verification instead. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when it's ready.
Yes, for verified professionals. Some plans involve costs you pay directly — a restaurant bill, a court booking, fuel for a carpool — and the group chat has a bill-split tool so the maths is easy. Socco isn't part of those payments.
For plans marked as couples events, yes. You invite them through a one-time link, they verify with a phone number and a photo, and they attend alongside you rather than getting their own account. You vouch for them, so their behaviour reflects on you.
Delhi NCR only, and deliberately so. We're opening one cluster at a time — Cyber Hub and Cyber City first, then Noida and South Delhi. An app like this is worthless if it's empty, so we'd rather be genuinely busy in a few areas than thin across many.
Report them in the app — every profile, plan and chat has the option. Reports are confidential; we never tell the other person who reported them. Serious reports can suspend an account the same day, and the reported person is blocked from contacting you immediately.
Socco only works when there are enough people nearby to actually make plans, so we're starting with Cyber Hub and Cyber City, then Noida, then South Delhi.