Local Taxi & Auto Booking
Connect with local autos, cabs, and e-rickshaws in your city. No surge pricing algorithms. No city minimum. Real local rates, real local drivers.
The super app India's tier 2 and 3 cities have been waiting for.
Depo
Depo at a glance
- What it is
- Depo is a hyperlocal super app built for India's 500+ smaller cities, local taxi and auto booking, business discovery, property listings, classified ads, and local jobs. Not a metro clone. Built ground-up for the way real India moves.
- Category
- Hyperlocal · Tier 2/3 Cities · Super App
- Status
- Launching soon
- Built by
- Sitio Labs, Mumbai
2026Launching in 2026tier 2 & 3 cities
500+Tier 2 & 3 citiestargeted across India
4Super-app verticalsin one product
0%Listing feefor businesses
Features
Everything Depo does, in one platform.
Business Discovery
Find any local business, shops, service professionals, clinics, restaurants, repair services. Verified listings with real reviews from actual customers in your city.
Property Listings
Rent and sell residential and commercial properties in your city. No brokerage required for direct listings. Depo connects owner and tenant directly.
Classified Ads
Buy and sell anything second-hand, furniture to two-wheelers to electronics. Local-first visibility means listings reach the right buyers in your city.
Local Jobs Board
Find work locally or hire for your business. Job listings for skilled, semi-skilled, and daily-wage roles, built for the informal economy that powers smaller cities.
Free Business Profiles
Any local business can create a verified profile for free. Add photos, services, operating hours, and contact details. Depo becomes your free digital shopfront.
How it works
Up and running faster than you expect.
- 01
Set your city
Depo is hyperlocal, everything you see is from your city. The app configures itself around your location, showing listings, drivers, and businesses within reach.
- 02
Discover or list
Search for a ride, a property, a service, or a product. Or create a listing, add your business, post a property, or sell something. Free to list.
- 03
Connect directly
Depo connects you directly with the other party, no middlemen extracting fees. Chat, call, or meet. The platform facilitates; you transact.
- 04
Build your local reputation
Ratings and reviews stay with your profile over time. Drivers, businesses, and sellers build verified local credibility. Trust is earned in your community.
Market Opportunity · Tier 2 & 3 India
The market that metro apps forgot.
India has over 500 cities with populations between 2 lakh and 20 lakh. These cities generate significant economic activity, local transport, property transactions, trade, and services, but have almost no reliable digital infrastructure serving them. Uber does not operate in most of them. OLX listings are sparse and unverified. MagicBricks rarely has properties below tier-1 pricing. Justdial listings are outdated. Depo is building the single platform that connects all of this, local rides, property, classifieds, and business discovery, in one app, built from the ground up for how these cities actually function.
500+Cities in target market
4Verticals in one app
0Comparable products
The full story
How Depo was built, chapter by chapter.
- I
The problem
India has 500+ cities with populations between 2 and 20 lakh, generating real economic activity with almost no digital infrastructure serving it. Uber doesn't operate in most of them. Property deals never get listed. The best mechanic in town has no profile anywhere. Metro apps didn't fail these cities, they never showed up.
- II
The research
We studied how these cities actually move: autos negotiated at the corner, rentals found through relatives, second-hand goods sold through word of mouth. The gap wasn't awareness, smartphones and UPI are everywhere. The gap was that no product was built for this behavior.
- III
The strategy
A super app, deliberately, because in Nashik, five metro apps that barely work are worth less than one local platform that does. Free listings seed the supply side; trust and density, not features, are the moat.
- IV
The design
Designed for first-time internet users: the city is the organizing principle, every screen is local, and the platform connects people directly, no middlemen, no dark patterns, no surge theatre.
- V
The engineering
A hyperlocal architecture where every query, listing, and ride is city-scoped. A simplified partner app for drivers. A verification pipeline that keeps listings real, the thing directories never solved.
- VI
The results
Targeting launch in 2026 with four verticals, rides, business discovery, property, classifieds, expanding across Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan, with business listings free from day one.
- VII
What we learned
Tier-2 India is not a smaller metro, it's a different country with different physics. Supply density beats feature count. And trust, once earned in a smaller city, compounds faster than any paid acquisition channel.
Insights
Thinking behind the product.
Tier 2 India is not a smaller version of metro India
The mistake every metro-born startup makes when expanding to smaller cities: they assume the same product, same UI, same pricing model will work. Depo was designed from scratch for the behavior, infrastructure, and economic reality of tier 2 and 3 cities.
Why the super app model works better in smaller cities
In Mumbai you have Uber, OLX, MagicBricks, and Justdial, all separate apps. In Nashik, none of those work well. A single trusted local platform with all verticals is far more useful than five metro-focused products that barely work outside the top 8 cities.
The informal economy is digital, it just doesn't have good tools yet
India's tier 2 and 3 cities have millions of micro-businesses, service workers, and property owners who are active economic participants with zero digital presence. Depo gives them that presence, for free.
FAQ/ 06
Common questions answered honestly.
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Start a conversationDepo is launching first across tier 2 and tier 3 cities in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan, with more states to follow. The platform prioritizes cities with populations between 2 lakh and 20 lakh, where existing apps provide poor coverage.
Request early access and we'll notify you the moment Depo launches in your city. Businesses can request a verified listing ahead of launch, and local drivers and auto-rickshaw operators can join the waiting list for the partner app.
Yes. Downloading the app, browsing listings, booking rides, and creating a basic business or property listing are all free. Depo's revenue comes from promoted listings and transaction fees on certain booking categories.
OLX focuses on second-hand goods nationally. Justdial is a yellow-pages-style directory. Depo is hyperlocal, everything is specific to your city, and covers ride booking, property, classifieds, and jobs in one app. The focus on smaller cities is the core differentiation.
Yes. Drivers use a dedicated partner app with a simplified interface for receiving ride requests, tracking earnings, and managing their profile.
Yes, Depo is designed specifically to enable direct owner-to-tenant and owner-to-buyer connections. No broker required. Interested parties contact you directly through the app.