Alert
Something urgent and local. Water gone, lift stuck, gate unattended, a fire. Verified Locals only, and it pushes immediately to everyone within 10 km.
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How it worksHow PadosXO works.
Four things set PadosXO apart from a WhatsApp group or a society app: your pincode is your neighbourhood, residents are verified, every kind of post has its place, and nobody reaches you without your say-so.
How does PadosXO verify that someone is a local resident?
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GPS, over two weeks - not a document upload. PadosXO confirms that residents actually live in the area they registered, without asking for documents or putting anyone in an approval queue. ID verification is a separate, optional check. Only verified residents can post safety alerts. Business and service pages never can.
Step oneYour pincode is the anchor.
Your pincode is the anchor.
Everything follows from it.
Most apps guess where you are and drift with your phone. PadosXO asks once, at sign-up, which pincode is home, and it stays fixed. Take a weekend trip to Jaipur and your feed won't fill up with Jaipur.
10
km — Every post you see originates inside a 10 km radius of your pincode. Nothing from the other side of the city reaches you, and nothing you post reaches them.
Pincode-first
You choose your area once. No citywide noise, no feed that changes because you took a cab somewhere.
Your neighbourhood, not the city
You see the streets and sectors around your home, and nothing from the other side of the city.
No permission needed.
No RWA, committee or building sign-up. You join yourself.
Step two
Verification you can't fake by filling in a form.
Anyone can type an address. Very few people can fake actually living somewhere. PadosXO confirms that residents live where they say they do, and that's what makes their alerts worth believing.
Post
Ordinary neighbourhood conversation. An observation, an update, a thank-you, a question that isn't quite a question.
Ask Community
"Which chemist stays open past eleven?" The answer is usually 500 metres away and already knows.
Buy / Sell
The neighbourhood marketplace. No courier, no shipping, no deposit, no meeting a stranger at a metro gate.
Requirement
State what you need - a cook for weekday dinners, a tutor, a carpenter - and let the right local person come to you.
Recommendation
Vouch for someone who did good work. Recommendations carry more weight when you can see the person making them lives here too.
Event
Society meetings, RWA sessions, Sunday football, a Diwali mela, a building committee vote. Visible before they happen.
News
Area-specific news, reviewed before it publishes. Deliberately not a place for forwards.
And around it
The businesses and people already near you.
Alongside the feed, PadosXO maps what's actually near you: local businesses with a page, service providers listed by trade, neighbours who've chosen to be discoverable. All are vouched for by someone who lives here.
Local businesses
The chemist, the bakery, the hardware shop, the gym. Their page, their events, their offers, seen by people who can actually walk there
Service providers
Plumbers, electricians, tutors, cooks, carpenters and drivers, listed by trade.
Neighbours
People near you who've chosen to be discoverable. Nobody appears here who hasn't opted in.
Step four
Nobody can message you until you say so.
Being close to people shouldn't mean being reachable by anyone. On PadosXO, someone asks to connect and you decide. Until you accept, there's no conversation. Your phone number is never shown
What a request looks like
Arjun S.
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Ritu K.
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Farhan K.
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Meera D.
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Ignoring a request is a complete answer.
Step three
A neighbourhood isn't one conversation.
A burst water main and a second-hand cycle don't belong in the same thread. That's exactly what breaks society WhatsApp groups. PadosXO separates them when you post.
Alert
Something urgent and local: water gone, lift stuck, gate unattended, smoke. Verified residents only.
Post
Ordinary neighbourhood conversation: an update, a photo, a thank-you.
Ask Community
"Which chemist stays open past eleven?" The answer is usually nearby and already knows.
Common questions
Questions people ask about how it actually works.
How does PadosXO decide what appears in my feed?
Your feed is everything posted within 10 km of your registered pincode centroid, shown newest first. There is no ranking algorithm choosing what you see or hiding what you don't engage with. You can register a second work pincode and switch between two feeds.
How do I become a Verified Local?
You don't apply - you're awarded it. Register your home pincode when you sign up, then simply live your normal routine. If GPS detects your device inside that registered area on 7 of any 14 days, the Verified Local badge appears on your profile automatically. No documents, no approval queue.
Why can't I post an Alert?
Alerts are restricted to Verified Locals - residents whose presence GPS has confirmed over 7 of 14 days. If you've just signed up, the Alert option stays locked until then. Business and service provider pages cannot post Alerts at any point, regardless of how long they've been active - an alert is only worth anything if it can't be sent by someone who isn't there.
Can someone message me without my permission?
No. Chat on PadosXO is request-and-accept. Another user can send you a single short introductory message - once, permanently - and after that they cannot contact you again unless you accept the request. Your phone number is never displayed or shared with anyone.
What happens if I move to a different area?
Change your registered pincode in settings and your feed moves with you. Your Verified Local status recalculates against the new area on the same 7-of-14-day basis, so it takes a couple of weeks to re-earn - which is the point. Verification tracks where you actually are, not where you once said you were.
Does my society or RWA need to sign up first?
No - that's the main structural difference between PadosXO and society-management apps such as MyGate, NoBrokerHood or ApnaComplex. Those require your management committee to adopt the software first. PadosXO works from your pincode, so you register yourself and you're in, whatever kind of housing you live in.
What is the Trust Ring?
The Trust Ring is a visible signal of how much of your neighbourhood vouches for you. People you have actually held a conversation with can endorse you, and each endorsement adds 10 points. Endorsements are one-directional, so two users cannot simply endorse each other back and forth to inflate their scores.
Is PadosXO tracking my location all the time?
Location is used to confirm whether your device is inside your registered pincode area, which drives Verified Local status. It is not used to show your live position to other users, and your precise location is never displayed on your profile or in your posts.
In short
A neighbourhood app that works without your society's permission.
Most Indian neighbourhood technology stalls because it needs a committee - someone proposes the app, the RWA votes, a WhatsApp poll runs, and six weeks later half the building still hasn't installed it. PadosXO removes that dependency. Register your pincode, see 10 km, you're in - whether your society has an app, a committee, a gate, or none of the above.
That's also why PadosXO reaches people society apps structurally cannot: tenants in builder floors, families in plotted colonies, shopkeepers on the main road. A pincode contains all of them. A gate contains only some.
Takes about a minute
Try it on your own pincode.
Register, look at what's actually happening around you, and judge it on that. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.
Free for residents • Phone number stays private • Live across Delhi NCR