The team

The people building how India meets people offline

OpenCT is built by a small team obsessed with one problem: how does a country of 1.4 billion still find it so hard to make new friends as adults? We're working on it. In real life.

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Offline first

The app is the bridge. The meetup is the point. We optimise for time spent face-to-face, not scrolling.

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Safety, not theatre

Real KYC on hosts. Real moderation on chat. SOS and report from every screen — not buried three menus deep.

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Small rooms, real talk

We cap most meetups deliberately small so you actually meet everyone — not just exchange Instagram handles.

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Hosts get paid

Cashfree-powered checkout, T+2 payouts, no hidden cuts. The people running the room are why it works — they earn well for it.

Meet the team

Small team. Big intent.

Founders, community curators, trust & safety leads — and a couple of open roles waiting for you.

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Sri Hari Sirisipalli

Founder & Product

Building the meetups app I wish I had after moving cities. Codes the app, hosts the meetups, breaks the things.

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Community Curator

Hosts & partnerships

Finds the people who run the best meetups in each city — pottery folks, trekking groups, founders, comedians — and gets them on the app.

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Trust & Safety Lead

Moderation & KYC

Reviews every host application, runs the moderation queue, handles reports within hours. The reason meetups stay safe.

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You?

We're hiring

Frontend / Flutter, backend PHP, growth, community — if you want to help build the way India meets new people offline, write to us.

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Want to help build this?

We're hiring across product, engineering, growth, and community. If India figuring out how to meet new people offline excites you, write in — even if there's no listing for your role yet.

mail Email hello@openct.co