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Discover compatible people
Find others who share your values and life choices not a feed optimised for attention, a network organised around how people actually want to live.
Social infrastructure for India
Find your people. Choose your path.
We’re building India’s trusted social infrastructure for adults creating lives outside the traditional script.
The problem
The conventional path is not the only path.
Adults who choose differently around marriage, children, religion, relationships and lifestyle still live in a society organised around one expected script. Compatible people, community and trusted services are hard to find not because they do not exist, but because there is no credible place to look.
What we’re building
A trusted layer for chosen lives.
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Build trusted community
Belong to groups with standards. Membership is earned through alignment and vetting, so conversation, friendship and collaboration can start from trust.
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Access trusted services
Connect to professionals and partners who understand non-traditional households and choices (legal, financial, housing, health and more) without having to explain yourself first.
Community
Already 250+ members. Recruited by hand.
Before software, we built a values-based community through personal outreach and careful vetting. That group is the proof: demand is real, and trust has to be designed in from day one.
Early members are adults in India who want peers, people who take their work, relationships and independence seriously, and who want a place that does the same.
Our vision
Start with communities. Grow into an ecosystem.
We begin with targeted communities in India, where the gap between private choice and public infrastructure is sharpest. Over time, OwnWay can become a broader social layer: people, groups and services organised by life values and compatibility, a network you can actually rely on.
Founders
Built from lived experience.
We are an international couple who have lived the tension between traditional expectations and choosing our own path. OwnWay comes from that gap, and from the conviction that millions of others are in it too.
mangal Prakash
India · AI & computer science
Background in machine learning and computer science. Building the product and systems that make compatibility and trust scalable, not just a well-run group chat.
Diana Alves Afonso
Portugal · science & industry
Background in the pharmaceutical industry and scientific research. Brings rigour, operations and a second cultural lens to how community and services should actually work.