WhatsApp Groups Are Not a Gaming Community

Ask any Indian gamer how they find people to play with and you'll hear the same answer: a WhatsApp group. A friend adds you, it's busy for a week, then it fills with forwards and goes quiet. I've been in dozens. That experience is the reason HangOn exists.

What WhatsApp groups get wrong

• You can't find them. If nobody adds you, the group doesn't exist for you.
• They don't know what you play. Everyone is mixed together, whatever the game or skill.
• They don't connect to places. Booking a café or entering a tournament happens somewhere else.
• They don't remember. Your ranks, wins and teammates disappear into the scroll.

What a local gaming community needs

Discovery by game and location, so you meet people who play what you play and live close enough to meet. Squads that stay together. Venues you can actually book. Tournaments with honest prize splits. And a profile that remembers what you've done.

That's the list we built HangOn around: find gamers near you, keep a squad together, book a café and join tournaments.

Group chats will always have a place. They just shouldn't be the whole community. — Aditya Jaiswal