The Namaste Blog
Notes from building a community
Product updates, guides for settling in, and the occasional look behind the scenes.
Namaste for Business: your listing, your offers and your events, from a laptop
Business owners can now run everything on Namaste from the web — list the business, post offers from a photo of the flyer, add events, and see how many people are finding them.
Read it →How far is “near”? It’s the number the whole app is built around
Every other community app hands you a country and lets you dig. Namaste starts at your front door: one radius, applied to everything at once, and no worldwide feed to fall into.
Read it →Groups: a room for the people who are actually nearby
Not another 400-person national WhatsApp group you mute on day two. Every group is anchored to a place and a radius, so the people in it could plausibly turn up.
Read it →Nobody needs to own a hammer drill
The Market has a section for lending things out: a day rate, a deposit that is actually required, and a “rented out” switch so you never have to delete and repost the same drill.
Read it →Groups are open — and the Market now lends as well as sells
Version 2.7 brings local groups with their own chat, a Rentals section for the drill sitting in your cupboard, photo galleries that show all your photos, and a distance on every listing.
Read it →Namaste Community is live — and we’d love the Benelux to try it
We built the app we wished existed when we moved here. It’s live on both stores, it’s free, and we want your bug reports as much as your sign-ups.
Read it →A tour of Namaste Community, feature by feature
Yellow Pages, Groups, Marketplace, Ask, Events, chat, SOS and the AI that fills in your forms — what each part is for, and the bits people miss.
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