College first
Your college and your interests are what Discover ranks by. You meet people you could actually run into, not strangers three cities away.
Privacy by default
Your precise location is used only to work out a distance, on our servers. It is never shown to another member and never returned by our APIs.
Safety is not a feature
Blocking, reporting and moderation were built in the first week, not bolted on after something went wrong.
Free, and honest about it
No paid boosts, no paywalled likes, no dark patterns designed to make you upgrade.
Why we built it
College is full of people you would get on with and will never meet. You share a campus, a bus route and half a friend group, and still end up talking to the same eight people for three years. Meanwhile the apps that could help are built for something else entirely — they assume everyone wants to date, they push you towards strangers far away, and they charge you for the privilege.
BuzzUp starts from your college and your interests instead. Some people use it to find someone to dance Garba with, some to find a group for a trip, some to find one person worth talking to properly. All of those are the point.
Navratri, and after
We are launching around Navratri because it is the easiest time of year to say yes to meeting someone new — there is somewhere to go and something to do. But a Garba partner is one use of a product built for the whole year: college fests, group plans, trips, and the ordinary business of making friends.
How we make decisions
- Collect less. If a feature needs data we would be uncomfortable losing in a breach, we look for another way to build it.
- Two yeses. Nobody can message you until you have liked them back.
- Reversible by you. Hide your profile, unmatch, block, or delete your account — all self-service.
- No invented numbers. We would rather say nothing than quote a user count or a success rate we made up.
Where we are
BuzzUp is new and openly a work in progress. Some things are deliberately missing rather than half-built, and our Privacy Policy and Terms are honest drafts awaiting legal review. If something is not working the way you expect, tell us.
See it for yourself
Creating a profile takes a few minutes and costs nothing.